Llanddulas and Rhyd-y-Foel
Following on from a few images back on my stream of the rainbow at Llanddulas beach, North Wales.
This was the scene I was originally shooting before that all kicked off out of nowhere, the amount of groynes along this beach has to be seen to be believed so picking one to use in a composition was like trying to find the right needle, in a big pile of needles... I settled on this one as I liked it's wonky appearance, the light was really good for only a very short amount of time, perhaps ten minutes at most, with the tide receding and the rocks on the shore being slowly revealed, the wellies were on and I was in as far as it was safe to be as there was still the odd bigger wave that came thundering in, in fact I lost a few shots to camera shake due to this.
The sun is just peaking over the horizon to my right warming up the groyne on the beach and catching the clouds above, it was starting to rain now to, if you look on the horizon to the left you can see the beginnings of what turned out to be a full blown double rainbow stretching right onto the beach within 5 minutes.
As is often the case there's a price to pay for getting images, whatever that may be, I got absolutely soaked on the beach this morning, and then while rushing about dropped my Lee 6 stop filter in the holder and smashed the corner off it, that's now stylishly masked off with gaffer tape, the way I look at it you can always replace gear, but you can't replicate a scene.
Another image from a fab and thoroughly enjoyable sunrise at Llanddulas, North Wales.
The sun had yet to rise above the hills here what you can see is it hitting the clouds above just before it appeared and covered the beach in an absolutely glorious light show during a rain storm, I'm always really careful when I stand in the sea as you never see 'that' wave coming, that tide was on it's way out this morning but it was still pretty lively !
I liked the contrast in this scene with the whites of the wave foam hitting the shoreline against the golden sky, for about a 30 minute shoot in the light it was very productive, when I left it was like a different day! dull, drab, flat, and totally not worth getting the camera out for. Another morning well spent.
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Llanddulas and Rhyd-y-Foel!
Most notably Pete Rowbottom.