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The end of a very busy weekend found myself and my wife Liz taking a couple of hours' break with a stroll around the Marine Lake at West Kirby on a lovely Sunday evening.
We finished up with a coffee while we sat and watched the cloud play over the lake as the sun dropped towards the horizon behind us.
West Kirby is one of those places that seems to attract spectacular sunsets, but on this occasion the sky to the west was pretty much cloud free and relatively uninteresting.
So we turned our gaze to the southeast instead and got ourselves comfortable watching the clouds, canoeists, drone flyers and dog walkers as they enjoyed the warmth.
But I couldn't stay photographically inactive for long, not with a jetty, water and clouds to make something out of.
So it was out with the camera, on with the polariser, and down to the jetty to try a few different compositions.
In the end, this one was the strongest arrangement, as I knelt down on the jetty to maximise its impact on the foreground of the image while the polarising filter did a great job of darkening the blue of the sky and really allowing those arrow shaped high altitude clouds to stand out.
Filename - west kirby 06.jpg
Camera - Canon 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 1/30sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - West Kirby Marine Lake
This image - 533x800px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - Polarising filter used to darken the sky.
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