When Liz and I pulled up at the new Porth Eirias watersports centre at Colwyn Bay on our way home from a trip up the North Wales coast, all we were hoping for was a cup of coffee.
Well the coffee proved elusive, as the café was shut, but as we looked around I saw some quite unusual cloud activity going on overhead, with streams of stormy clouds, including the grape cluster-like mammatus, moving out to sea.
So the hunt for coffee was abandoned in favour of shooting stills for this time lapse video, in the hope that the dramatic cloud formations would continue and head in the right direction i.e. over my lens.
Well I wasn't disappointed, as the cloud action just kept on coming right until sunset, and despite a dollop of rain landing on my camera (shower cap to the rescue) I was able to keep shooting for just over an hour until the more extreme cloud formations had passed by.
One of those serendipitous occasions when you're glad you keep your camera gear in the boot of your car!
Filename - clouds timelapse 10.mp4
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens 17-40mm zoom @ 20mm
Exposure (start of sequence)
1/40 sec @ f4, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence)
1/6 sec @ f4, ISO100
Capture interval - 5 secs
Location - Colwyn Bay, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p
Clip duration - 35 seconds
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