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An early start saw me at St Abbs Lighthouse for a morning of Sea Bird photography,the bonus of this is the sunrise witht eh St Abbs lighthouse never disappoints (unless its cloudy,foggy,peein raiin or all of these)
This is yesterday mornings sunrise from St. Abbs....it was worth the fall on the rocks me thinks! Only I could get one foot stuck and slip on the rocks with the other, back is wrecked, 0.6 grad is scratched on the corner and ankle is rather sore....I blame it all on wellies! Dangerous bloody things....nothing to do with me being clumsy of course! Glad camera was on tripod in my hand and not in my bag though! Anyhow, I feel it was worth it for this one....what a sky we were treated to! Well worth the 4.30am start, the crazy slippy roads due to ice, and the rock climbing to get to this spot :o)
Canon 450d, Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6, 5 seconds, 10mm, f/18, ISO100, Lee 0.6 and 0.9 soft edge grad filters.
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St Abbs is a small fishing village on the southeastern coast of Scotland, within the Coldingham parish of Berwickshire. Tony and I visited this wonderful location during a day off between running a couple of workshops in Northumberland recently.
Never having been there before, I looked at the AA atlas and decided that we should head up there for a look around and boy am I glad that we did. This location is prime for landscape photography.
There's three small harbours including this fantastic moss covered walkway out to the cluster of rocks, huge amounts of detail work to shoot with numerous fishing sheds and boats lining the three harbours.
I will run a workshop here in conjunction with a couple of other places that I have lined up. Probably run a two day workshop here in the autumn. If your interested, drop me a line.
I hope you're all having a great Easter weekend.
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Camera Settings:
Canon 5Ds
Canon 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm
f14
15 secs
ISO100
LEE 0.3 ND Grad soft edge filter
LEE 105 mm Landscape Polariser
LEE Big Stopper filter
Gitzo GT3542XLS Tripod
Manfrotto 410 Tripod Geared Head
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Hello everyone ....I'm sorry I haven't been commenting much of late. I'm away travelling around the country in the VW. I have mobile access to the internet now, but it seems that most places I find myself in have no signal, so it's a bit hit and miss. I'll catch up with you all slowly but surely. Thank you for your steadfast visits and comments - I appreciate them all very much. I took this photo a couple of weeks ago at St. Abbs, a coastal reserve in S E Scotland. The Phalaris grass was edging a little lochan just behind the cliffs where there were tens of thousands of guillemots nesting. The sun was just catching it as I passed by on my way to see the seabirds ....
St Abbs harbour taken while on holiday earlier in the year St Abbs is just inside Scotland on the east coast
A favourable weather forecast saw me finally get my gear together and drive the 60 miles for a sunrise photoshoot at the St Abbs lighthouse. A relatively clear sky led to a real chill in the air but I was more than rewarded but a beautiful sunrise,even if it is to late in the year to frame it nicely with the lighthouse.This image was take 1 hour before sunrise.