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Toting my camera and tripod more in hope than expectation, I wasn't expecting to find such a lovely juxtaposition of visual elements during Liz's and my stroll along the beach at Rhyl on a cold afternoon in early spring.
But the elements were in my favour, as a receding tide had left the sand swept clean of footprints, and the natural hollow in the beach next to this line of groynes still held a sizeable pool of tidal runoff water.
If it had been a nice, sunny day it would have been better for strolling, but nowhere near as interesting photographically speaking, with patches of dark and light in the clouds reflecting in the mirror like surface of the pool.
It was quite challenging to get a sharp image of this scene, as my tripod kept sinking into the water laden sand (as did I).
Eventually I had to push the bottom legs down about a foot into the shifting sand to get a stable platform.
I came away with this, and other, lovely images, but with very muddy footware!
Filename - beach groynes 02.jpg
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 2.5 secs @ f11, ISO100
Location - Rhyl, North Wales
This image - 533x800px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CC
Comments - Neutral density graduated filter used to balance exposure between sky and foreground
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