A lesson learned!
Met up with Tim Wood this morning for a sunrise shoot prior to attending a flickrmeet at Margam Park. The sea was wild, but as I'm very familiar with this tiny little bit of coastline I was soon shooting happily away, frame after frame. Then I decided to go for a different spot and climbed down there on those rocks (to the left in this pic). I had the shot of the day lined up when a 10-footer broke about 30ft away from me and rushed over the top of the rocks; grabbing the camera I held it up high and waited for the wave to hit - it did, but thankfully only about 9 inches high by this time but with enough force to smash into the rocks behind me and give me a good soaking. I never did get the shot I was after, I was drenched and decided to call it a day, after all, I had loads of decent shots in my camera didn't I?
On loading onto my computer after the WFC Margam Park meet I was horrified to find all the beach shots were streaky, and then I remembered, I hadn't washed my graduated filter after getting salt splashes on it on Boxing Day! Ah well, never mind, some reasonable shots from Margam to follow!
PS, I've drastically cropped out the streaky parts of this one salvageable photo!
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This image is copyrighted to Michael John Stokes; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. Please contact me at mjs@opobs.co.uk for express permission to use any of my photographs. Sorry, but this photograph can only be viewed large if you are one of my contacts!
A lesson learned!
Met up with Tim Wood this morning for a sunrise shoot prior to attending a flickrmeet at Margam Park. The sea was wild, but as I'm very familiar with this tiny little bit of coastline I was soon shooting happily away, frame after frame. Then I decided to go for a different spot and climbed down there on those rocks (to the left in this pic). I had the shot of the day lined up when a 10-footer broke about 30ft away from me and rushed over the top of the rocks; grabbing the camera I held it up high and waited for the wave to hit - it did, but thankfully only about 9 inches high by this time but with enough force to smash into the rocks behind me and give me a good soaking. I never did get the shot I was after, I was drenched and decided to call it a day, after all, I had loads of decent shots in my camera didn't I?
On loading onto my computer after the WFC Margam Park meet I was horrified to find all the beach shots were streaky, and then I remembered, I hadn't washed my graduated filter after getting salt splashes on it on Boxing Day! Ah well, never mind, some reasonable shots from Margam to follow!
PS, I've drastically cropped out the streaky parts of this one salvageable photo!
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This image is copyrighted to Michael John Stokes; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. Please contact me at mjs@opobs.co.uk for express permission to use any of my photographs. Sorry, but this photograph can only be viewed large if you are one of my contacts!