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The North Wales coast is a great place to see unusual and varied clouds.
With warm, moist air coming in from the Irish Sea and hitting the high ground along the coast, causing it to rise and cool, you can quite often see wave clouds forming over the cliffs.
This particular cloud formed on an otherwise bright, sunny and cloud free day, over the headland at Penmaenmawr.
I thought about photographing it in context, with the headland including, but in the end I decided on a more minimalist approach, isolating just the cloud in the camera's viewfinder to put the emphasis on its lovely shape and form.
Filename - cloud 01.jpg
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 47mm
Exposure - 1/60 sec @ f11, ISO100
Filters - Polarising filter used to darkne the sky
Location - Penmaenmawr, North Wales
This image - 800x450px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - Handheld exposure with lens stabilisation
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