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14:41:32
Now I think this is on the beach at Abersoch.
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14:41:43
...so this would be the far end, away from the town.
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14:41:50
Same thing again.
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14:42:10
I was clearly interested my some feature of this scene, although in retrospect I'm not entirely sure what it was!
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14:42:33
I like the brooding mountains off in the distance here, on the other side of the bay.
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14:45:05
Nice effect from the clouds here too.
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15:27:34
More interesting wispy clouds.
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15:35:48
I think this is Abersoch still - a few boats bobbing about in the harbour, as the sun starts to think about setting.
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15:36:06
The same thing again.
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15:36:34
...and again, clearly I wasn't quite sure how best to compose this.
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15:36:44
More of the same.
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16:09:41
On the way back to Dad's house, this didn't really come out all that wonderfully, but at the time the sky had been rather fascinating if I recall correctly.
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16:09:52
Hmmm a bit too much cloud to really appreciate that sunset.
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16:10:01
My Dad never seems to lose his fascination with the sea or the sky, which I find heart warming.
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16:10:14
Two little cloud cumulations here stick out from the main raft, illuminated by the last rays of the sun, and look a bit like mountain peaks.
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16:10:28
More of the same really - I guess this needed zooming as the top two thirds of this picture are pretty uninteresting!
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16:10:38
Same thing again. This was one of those frustrating bouts of photography where everything looks great in real life, and the camer just doesn't seem willing to co-operate.
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16:11:00
...and one last attempt before giving up and going back to Dad's house, almost certainly for tea and crumpets!
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14:07:25
This is Black Rock Sands, a beach I often used to visit on bucket and spade holidays as a child. The sky here today was absolutely fascinating (unfortunately this picture isn't quite straight - a common problem for me!).
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14:07:33
Same again in landscape. Weird effect of perspective from the clouds here - like they're all emanating from a single point.
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14:07:41
More of the same, and you can just about see the peaks of some distant headland here.
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14:08:01
Finally I managed to get it (more or lesa) straight!
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14:08:08
Ah, back to slant-o-vision, which is a shame, because I really like the effect of the little silhouetted figure here.
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14:08:21
More of the same thing - and the spirit level appears relatively happy in this one...
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14:08:28
Another nice effect of a small silhouetted figure.
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14:10:05
One of the handy things about Black Rock Sands is that you can park your car on the beach - at low tide. I'm sure they must lose a few cars every year here because of the tide!
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15:29:04
I can't remember the name of this place - it's a reservoir my Dad goes for fishing sometimes. It had a weird quality to it on this visit - wonderfully still, and I loved the golden colours and the reflections in the water.
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15:29:18
A small collection of little rowing boats here (sadly none of them belonging to my Dad!).
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15:29:42
Wonderful blue sky and golden hillsides. Almost a "wild west" feel to it.
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15:30:09
There's even a ruined farmhouse on one of the hillsides - honestly, what more could you ask for?
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15:30:21
More of the same really - there's the boats again.
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15:30:27
...and yet more of the same thing.
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15:32:29
I think this might be taken as we were leaving...
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16:00:52
The final venue for our very nice day out was Criccieth, partly just because this is where we happened to be passing when the sun was setting...
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16:01:00
In the first few pictures the sun was still perhaps a little bit to bright for my camera - so they're a little burnt out...
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16:02:21
...this one is nice, but still perhaps the sun is a bit too bright.
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16:03:07
I'm not in anyway an expert when it comes to photography. I believe there is something called the rule of thirds - which presumably I have wantonly abandoned here.
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16:04:23
Still the sun is a little too bright to be perfect...
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16:04:48
Same here too...
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16:05:17
I think it is getting there now. I found I was happier when I removed the foreground almost altogether, as it just tended to come out very black and uninteresting.
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16:05:29
There follow many attempts now which at first glance look almost identical, but on close inspection do vary a little - one of the great things about sunsets being that they change constantly.
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16:06:00
The sun is definitely cooling off a bit now, lending the sky some wonderful pastel shades.
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16:06:42
Still it looks almost fiery here...
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16:06:51
The sun is just about to be lost behind that headland.
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16:07:44
It is pretty much hidden now - this is perhaps one of my favourites - especially as it also has something flying across the sky (is it a bird? is it a plane?).
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16:08:23
Yep, the sun is hidden now - and there's the plane again. Oh and I also like the little tuft of grass in the bottom right hand corner. I think it was this shot which adorned my desktop on my computer at my previous company for a long time.
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16:09:07
The pastel shades are now changing into more golden hues...
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16:09:14
Well we're coming to the end now then.
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16:09:39
...still the colours are changing between every shot.
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16:09:57
The final one - and perhaps the only one in which you can actually see a bit of Criccieth, and a rather proud looking lamp post.
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