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Menai Straits in winter, Anglesey, North Wales #7

Menai Straits in winter, Anglesey, North Wales

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It was a lovely, clear, calm, sunny winter's day on the North Wales coast, which was all the incentive my wife Liz and I needed to jump in the car and head to the beautiful Isle of Anglesey for a bracing stroll along the Menai Straits, that famous body of water that separates Anglesey from the North Wales coast.

The Menai Straits is a wonderful sensory smorgasbord of visual, auditory and olefactory delights, but of course, it's only the visual that can be recorded on a photograph unfortunately!

This view of the Straits, looking towards the snow capped peaks of Snowdonia in the far distance, features the pilings of a decrepit concrete jetty, slowly emerging from beneath the waters on an ebbing tide.

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Filename - menai straits 07

Camera - Canon EOS 6DMK2 DSLR

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 105mm

Exposure - 1/60 sec @ f/5.6, ISO400

Filters - Polarising filter used to enhance colours. 2 stop neutral density graduated filter used to reduce the brightness of the sky.

Location - Menai Straits, Anglesey, North Wales

Image enhancements - Adobe Lightroom

Comments - Raised ISO used to enable handheld exposure with image stabilisation.