The coast of North Wales is a fascinating and ever changing environment, and some of the most beautiful beaches and cliffs are to the found on the wonderful Isle of Anglesey.
Which is why my wife Liz and I have kept on coming back here over the past nearly forty years!
Over that time we've not seen much change at all, with the unspoilt beauty spots we enjoyed in our earlier year still pretty much the same today as they were back then.
One such is the marvellous Church Bay (or Porth Swtan in the welsh), which boasts a fantastic beach, backed by glorious golden cliffs which glow in the light of the setting sun, and which is strewn with a great variety of rocks and rockpools of all different shapes and colours.
On our most recent visit to Church Bay in that lovely two weeks of sunny, warm weather in March 2022 we arrived just a couple of hours before sunset on an ebbing tide, and I wasted no time in setting up my camera and tripod in the sea to record the few hunderd still images needed to create this time lapse video of those shoreline rocks slowly being revealed as the waters receded.
Filename - church bay tide timelapse 05
Camera - Canon EOS 6DMK2
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure (start of shoot) - 1/10 sec @ f/4, ISO100
Exposure (end of shoot) - 0.6 sec @ f/4, ISO100
Filters - 6 stop neutral density filter used to increase exposure time in order to blur the wave movement slightly.
2 stop neutral density graduated filter used to reduce the brightness of the sky relative to the foreground.
Shooting interval - 6 seconds
Music - Kiss the Sky - Aakash Gandhi.
Location - Church Bay, Anglesey, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p, 30fps (4K and 1080p HD formats also available)
Clip duration - 13 seconds
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