My wife Liz and I had spent a lovely day out visiting some of our favourite places in North Wales, and were heading back home along the A55 coastal highway when we decided to have one last treat.
So we pulled off the A55 at Llanddulas in order to park on the seafront and watch the stars come out over the Gwynt-y-Môr windfarm, with turbines dotting the far horizon with the red lights of their anti-collision beacons.
But before dusk ended we were treated to the spectacle of a newly formed crescent moon arcing down through the twilight glow over the lights of Rhos-on-Sea at the far western end of Colwyn Bay.
So it was quickly out with my camera and tripod to capture the hundreds of still images required to make just this few seconds of time lapse video as the moon rapidly sank throught the darkening sky before finally disappearing behind the headland at Rhos-on-Sea.
But that wasn't the end of our evening's diversion, as we then enjoyed an hour of each others' company as I shot another time lapse video sequence of the stars over the Irish Sea (you can watch this here) which was, of course, my original intention before I got distracted by that lovely moonset!
Filename - moonset timelapse 10
Camera - Canon EOS 6DMK2
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 330mm
Exposure (start of sequence) - 1 sec @ f/5.6, ISO3200
Exposure (end of sequence) - 1 sec @ f/5.6, ISO3200
Filters - None.
Shooting interval - 2 seconds
Software - Adobe Lightroom and Premiere Pro
Music - Glacier - Patrick Patrikios
Location - Llanddulas beach, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p, 30fps (4K and 1080p HD formats also available)
Clip duration - 17 seconds
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