My wife Liz and I have developed a bit of a summer Saturday ritual.
We'll spend as much of the day as possible exploring beautiful places around North Wales - the coastal strip, Snowdonia, Anglesey - there's just so many to choose from!
Then, later on, we'll get a takeaway coffee and head somewhere nice to watch the sunset and dusk.
On this particular evening we chose the promenade at Deganwy, by the side of the Conwy estuary just where it flows into the Irish Sea, and enjoyed a lovely sunset with a clear horizon.
But the visual pleasure didn't end with the sun going down, because as dusk fell and the sky grew darker, a new, thin, crescent moon became visible, tracking down towards the horizon over the Isle of Anglesey.
In addition, the tide had turned a little while before and was now racing in over the sand banks in the middle of the estuary.
Well, putting the moon and tide together was all the encouragement I needed to get out all the photographic stuff required to shoot a time lapse sequence and I set the camera off clicking away every six seconds as the moon dropped in the sky and the sea rapidly filled the estuary.
In the end, we stayed there watching and photographing for about three quarters of an hour, long after the coffee had been drunk, just enjoying the experience.
Filename - moonset timelapse 04.mp4
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens 24-105mm zoom @ 67mm
Exposure (start of sequence)
1/30 sec @ f4, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence)
1/2 sec @ f4, ISO100
Capture interval - 6 secs
Location - Deganwy, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p
Clip duration - 18 seconds
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