As you know, most of my photography is based around my home in northeast Wales, but every now and then I'll sneak over the border and check out some of the views in England.
And one of my favourite spots to visit is the seafront at New Brighton on the Wirral Peninsula, on the banks of the river Mersey and Liverpool Bay.
There's plenty of interesting industrial architecture to look at and photograph here, from the huge red cranes of the Liverpool container terminal on the far side of the Mersey, over to the shapely New Brighton lighthouse just off the shoreline at Fort Perch Rock.
But one more recent addition to the skyline in the offshore Burbo Bank wind farm, with its impressivre array of turbines lining up along the horizon.
And it's those turbines that feature in this time lapse video, filmed on a gorgeous evening in June 2023, with high pressure and a warm wind leading up to a rare sunset in clear skies over the Irish Sea.
It was a real pleasure to sit on the proemenade, watching and filming as the sun slowly sank towards the horizon, and as an added bonus, a container ship passed right through my composition just as the sun finally set.
What a great way to spend an evening, even if I was out of my home country!
Filename - windfarm sunset timelapse 09
Camera - Canon EOS 6DMK2
Lens (Clip #1) - 100-400mm zoom @ 130mm
Lens (Clip #2) - 100-400mm zoom @ 400mm
Exposure (start of sequence) - 1/125 sec @ f/32, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence) - 1/500 sec @ f/5.6, ISO100
Filters - None.
Shooting interval (Clip #1) - 4 seconds
Shooting interval (Clip #2) - 1 second
Music - Kiss the Sky - Aakash Gandhi
Location - New Brighton, Wirral, Merseyside, England
Video processing - Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Premiere Pro
This clip - HD 720p, 30fps (4K and 1080p HD formats also available)
Clip duration - 38 seconds
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