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Standing on the East Shore at the iconic seaside resort of Llandudno on the North Wales coast gives a great view of enormous Colwyn Bay windfarm, over to the east past the Little Orme headland.
As usual, opinion about this windfarm is divided, but from an aethsetic point of view as a landscape photographer I really like it, especially when the giant white turbine blades are highlighted by the evening sun and set against a backdrop of darkening sky.
Conditions as good as this are, however, fleeting in nature, so I was glad I had all the necessary photographic kit with me, set up and ready to go on the back seat of the car as we drove along the promenade in the startling light.
I had to park up and run down the single beach aways to get this angle, which includes a part of the Little Orme, and I only just made it in time, as a few seconds after I'd taken this photo the sunlight moved on and the turbines were once again cloaked in boring flat grey light.
Filename - windfarm 05.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 400mm
Exposure - 1/40sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Llandudno, North Wales
This image - 800x581px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Tripod, mirror lockup and cable release used to prevent camera movement.
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