It's quite rare to get a clear horizon over the Irish Sea, when looking out from the North Wales coast around sunset.
Normally there's a band of claggy cloud and haze over the water that stops you from seeing, or filming, a sunset that actually sets cleanly.
So on those rare occasions when the horizon is clear I tend to grab the opportunity with both hands.
Which is just what happened on this late afternoon in early January 2024, as my wife Liz and I were enjoying a bracing trip to the coast at Porth Dafarch on the beautiful Isle of Anglesey.
We'd been strolling the beach and filming sunbeams bursting though broken clouds out to sea when a small gap in the cloudbank opened up along the horizon just as sunset was approaching.
So, in anticipation of something special, out came the big zoom lens, and with the lens and camera firmly bolted down on my tripod I started to video the sunset, hoping that the gap in the clouds would play ball and allow us to see the sun setting right down into sea.
Well I wasn't disappointed as the sun emerged from the lower edge of the dense bank of cloud and, over the course of ten minutes, tracked sideways and downwards before finally vanishing below a well defined horizon.
A marvellous visual treat to end a lovely day out in a stunning location.
Filename - sunset clouds timelapse 01
Camera - Canon EOS 250D
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 400mm
Exposure - 1/100 sec @ f/16, ISO100
Filters - None.
Shooting method - 25fps 4K video, speeded up approximately 20x in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Location - Porth Dafarch, Anglesey, North Wales
Music - Kiss the Sky - Aakash Gandhi
This clip - HD 720p, 25fps (4K, and 1080p HD formats also available)
Clip duration - 32 seconds
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