You'd think that after an adult lifetime of photography I'd be tired of capturing sunsets.
No way! A sunset (or sunrise) is one of the most wonderful sensory feasts I know of, when the world seems to hold its breath at the birth or death of another day.
And every sunrise or sunset is different, especially up here in North Wales at a latitude 53ºN where the sunrise and sunset swing through an angle of almost 90º over the course of a year.
Add into the mix some usually interesting weather, blowing in off the Irish Sea, and you've got the chance of some truly outstanding lighthshows.
Which is why you'll often find my wife Liz and myself out on the North Wales coast in the afternoon, strolling along a beach somewhere and watching to see how the sunset might develop.
Such was the case on this evening in late September 2023 on the West Shore beach at Llandudno, one of the few locations along the coast where you can watch a sunset all through the year.
With a line of broken cloud moving across the face of the setting sun, the stage was set for what I hoped would be a great sunset, hopefully with beautiful crepuscular rays escaping from between the clouds and lighting up the seascape below.
And I wasn't disappointed, with Liz and myself being treated to a spectacular display of sunbeams before the sun finally set into a solid bank of cloud just above the horizon.
And of course, I didn't just watch the show, capturing the event for posterity in this time lapse video.
Filename - llandudno sunset timelapse 28
Camera - Canon EOS 6DMK2
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 200mm
Exposure (start of sequence) - 1/500 sec @ f/16, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence) - 1/20 sec @ f/16, ISO100
Filters - None.
Music - Kiss the Sky - Aakash Gandhi
Shooting interval - 2 seconds
Location - Llanduno West Shore, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p, 30fps (4K and HD formats also available)
Clip duration - 29 seconds
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