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I love watching and photographing the drama that unfolds when sun and storm fight together for supremacy overhead.
There's usually a ten minute window while a storm approaches where the cloud isn't yet solid and shafts of sunlight can penetrate groundwards, spotlighting the landscape below in an ever changing dance of light and darkness.
Living as I do in North Wales, with its combination of mountains and coast, changeable weather is the order of the day, and I photographed this particular scene one evening in mid September, about an hour before sunset while standing on the slopes of Moel Famau, the highest peak (I would hesitate to call it a mountain) in the Clwydian range which stretches from Llandegla in the south all the way to Prestatyn on the North Wales coast and catches some amazing weather as a result.
Visit if you can, but bring some waterprooofs!
Filename - hills clouds sun 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 400mm
Exposure - 1/1000sec @ f8, ISO100
Location - Moel Famau, North Wales
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - -1 stop exposure compensation used to retain details in the sky.
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