Sundown on the Empire
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A good friend of mine, seen here shooting the sunset, Botallack mine providing the interest, against the exploding sky here on the West coast of Cornwall, as far as sunset shooting goes this place is beyond great if the conditions are right, set up, wait, enjoy.,, there's another shot of this further down my stream, more intense colours further on into the sunset, I wanted to include this one though for the human interest, and the colours were slightly less intense, still, a very evocative image for me. Best viewed here
Here is the other version, more time has elapsed - www.flickr.com/photos/pete37038/7269490650/in/photostream... your thoughts ?
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One more shot from the glorious County of Cornwall, this is Cargodna pumping engine house, of the former Wheal Owles Mine, there are no exact dates for when the mines were opened but it's thought that the mines here were certainly in use around the 1700's, these and other remains are all that is left of the vast tin and copper mining empire around these parts now. Although there is one saved as a working museum nearby at Geevor.
I came down to this stretch of coastline most nights on the recent visit, like they say, no sunset is ever the same... the sunset this evening was great but the afterglow was the best one of the trip with some gorgeous reds and purples producing just before dusk, in this case 10 secs being just enough to drag them out across the sky without losing too much sky detail.
A few people in the pub by where I was stopping couldn't understand why I'd get my stuff and vanish down here every night as I'd 'already done it', just being here watching it was good enough reason to me but when you add the possibility of new photo's into the equation it's a total no brainer isn't it? I guess you either 'get it' or you don't! I had the place entirely to myself each night too.
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Another image from Cornwall and the old tin mine used in some scenes on BBC's 'Poldark' at Bottallack just outside of St Just.
A favourite location of mine withiun an easy 15 minute walk from a great campsite nearby the location gets some great sunsets, the bluebells at this time of the year prevalent as well adding some different foreground options.
I returned here later this night to try and shoot the stars over the old engine house.. 2 lessons learned from that trip - don't forget your GPS as a 15 min walk in the dark even with a torch can turn into 1.5 hours, and check your focus at 100% as every image I shot was annoying slightly off focus... after getting back to the caravan at gone 3am it's not a mistake I'll be making again.....