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Driving along the A548 up the edge of the Dee estuary from Flint to Talacre in North Wales you can't help but notice a most unusual sight.
Just before you get to Mostyn Docks you pass a large ship, seemingly parked by the side of the road.
This is the Duke of Lancaster, otherwise known as the Mostyn Funship (although where the 'fun' part comes from I don't know!), which as been classed as a wreck and berthed in its own special dock on the banks of the estuary since 1979.
I've driven past this monument numerous times on my way to photograph at Talacre, but on this occasion on a stormy day in January 2020 I decided to stop and have a closer look.
The North Wales coastal path runs past the funship, so it wasn't much of a problem to reach this vantage point taking in the Duke of Lancaster's bow and mooring chain.
I did have a problem with the dynamic range however, as the contrast between the bright sky and black painted hull was just too much for my camera's sensor to cope with in a single exposure.
So instead I took five separate exposures, each one stop apart, which gave me all the data I needed for an HDR blend with detail visible in the darkest and lightest portions of the final image.
Filename - mostyn funship 01
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 35mm
Exposure - Various @ f11, ISO100
Filters - Polarising filter used to enhance colours.
Location - Mostyn, North Wales
Image enhancements - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - This image is an HDR blend of five separate exposures, each one stop apart.
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