A rare clear sky at sunset at the end of a lovely late spring day on the North Wales coast found my wife Liz and I parked up on the seafront at Rhyl.
This is one of my favourite places to watch a sunset from, with acres of shining sand stretched out before us at low tide and the giant turbines of the Gwynt-y-Môr offshore windfarm punctuating the horizon of the Irish Sea.
A few minutes of careful location selection gave me this view of a group of five turbines through the long end of my 100-400mm zoom lens, positioned right underneath where I reckoned the sun would be setting, just a short time later.
And so it proved to be, and we watched and filmed as the sun sank inexorably towards that, mercifully, still clear horizon while the turbines of Gwynt-y-Môr rotated seemingly so slowly in the gentle onshore breeze.
Mind you, they don't look to be slowly rotating in this time lapse video, speeded up by a factor of 60!
Filename - windfarm sunset timelapse 13/p>
Camera - Canon EOS250D
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 400mm
Exposure (start of sequence) - 1/500 sec @ f/5.6, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence) - 1/125 sec @ f/5.6, ISO100
Filters - None.
Shooting interval - 2 seconds
Location - Rhyl, North Wales
Music - Kiss the Sky - Aakash Gandhi
This clip - HD 720p, 30fps (4K and 1080p HD formats also available)
Clip duration - 22 seconds
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