After a 4am start I'd just finished shooting the stills for my Orion time lapse #2 video and was contemplating heading home from my lofty spot by Moel Famau up in the Clwydian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
But when my gaze fell eastwards towards the horizon and saw the developing glow in the sky as the twilight, still with an hour to go till sunrise, started to colour the clouds, all thoughts of heading home evaporated like the morning mist.
Quickly repositioning my camera and tripod, I framed up a composition that was based on the dark 'Vee' shaped valley between the twin peaks of Moel Famau and Foel Fenlli, which I knew would gradually fill with light as the sun moved closer to the horizon at the base of the 'Vee'.
I set my camera off recording a frame every six seconds and waited to see how things would develop.
Well even I wasn't expecting what happened over the next forty five minutes, as striated clouds moved across the sky while a vivid red glow spread upwards from the horizon to eventually fill the heavens with light.
I stayed photographing as long as I possibly could, until the need to get to work on time forced me to stop, dash back to the car and get going.
Tired but elated at the sheer beauty of the dawn I'd just witnessed.
Filename - moel famau dawn timelapse 02.mp4
Camera - Canon 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @32mm
Exposure (start of sequence)
2 secs, f4, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence)
1/200 sec, f4, ISO100
Filters - None
Time between exposures - 6 secs
Location - Clwydian Range AONB, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p
Clip duration - 15 secs
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