Anstruther

The last few images I've uploaded have all followed a similar pattern of trying to dodge the seemingly unpredictable sea storms that appeared quite a lot over the 4 days that I was here, this is Anstruther harbour, and the last day of the trip, I had just popped down here to photograph the harbour before heading home, wasn't expecting anything out of the ordinary.

Less than ten minutes before this shot the skies were blue with minimal cloud and full sun, this storm came in very fast off the sea and literally for about 1 minute the entire harbour was covered in this amazing contrasting lighting from the sun breaking through the dense black cloud and reflecting on the cottages and the wet beach luckily I was ready for it coming and just by pure chance (and a bit of a sprint) I managed to get in a really decent spot to get a composition and managed to get it directly overhead as seen here. I had to bracket this exposure to get the full range in as the contrast was absolutely crazy with the sun on the white buildings against the black sky.

A few minutes after this the scene was transformed into a very dull lit boring scene as the storm headed out to sea again. For all my complaining about storms on the visit sometimes they are most welcome, oddly enough it never rained rained once while this passed over!

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