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I love being on the coast at the cusp of the day.
Either dawn or dusk is fine by me, as I watch the miraculous transformations in the sky and sea as the light changes, heralding the start or end of another day.
I'm accompanied in my vigil by the sussurant hiss of the waves as the restless sea kisses the foreshore again and again in a never ending courtship, while the gulls wheel and circle, effortlessly riding the unseen currents that roil in the atmosphere overhead.
This is a time for thought, for prayer, for contemplation, for capturing a fleeting moment of beauty on a piece of silicon no bigger than a postage stamp.
It's incongruous, is it not, that a few captured photons can be transformed into something as evocative as a photograph.
Oh - by the way (I nearly forgot to mention) this particular piece of coast, photographed at sunset, is the West Shore at Llandudno, North Wales.
Llandudno is one of the few places on the coast that faces both east and west, so you can see both the sunrise and sunset by just walking across town. Nice.
Filename - sunset beach 06.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 17-40mm zoom @ 17mm
Exposure - 1/60sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Llandudno, North Wales
This image - 640x800px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - ND grad filter used to balance exposure.
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