So… back to Norfolk again. I had just left my first B&B at Great Yarmouth and spent a couple of hours in the warm sunshine at Wells-next-the-Sea. I needed to find the second B&B in Hunstanton before heading down to the beach. It didn’t take long and I found myself parked up with nearly three hours to go until sunset. There are some very interesting rock formations on the beach and I wanted to take my time isolating two or three with the incoming tide using very long exposures. The rocks were ideal, the sea was calm and in fact, everything would have been perfect had it not been for the endless blue sky and sunshine. I had been dogged by too much sun throughout my trip and some of the afternoon locations had already been written off. I did my best on the beach, but the bright glare to the left as I looked for suitable compositions was just too much. Turning slightly to the west, I was eventually able to isolate larger groups, but they didn’t have the minimalist effect I was after.
In the end I gave it up as a bad job and was just heading off the beach in the hunt for dinner (it would be my first proper meal since leaving home) when I stumbled across a dead branch. Sunset was less than an hour away now and with a few clouds moving in from the south, it had distinct possibilities. Unpacking my gear once again, I set up as low as the tripod would go and there I knelt until everything came together.
The photograph featured above is a long exposure of more than two minutes to get some movement in the clouds. As the sun approached the horizon, I turned to get that in the frame, as can be seen in the image below.
I was too late for dinner (once again), but did enjoy a bag of chips on the front watching the remaining colour in the sky nearly an hour later.
