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Last sunday the clouds were looing good so I haede off to Camber Sands (the broomhill sands end - still camber?). Here's some of the results... The first is wide view more or less as I arrived..   it can be hard to decide what to focus on in a big landscape like this. Things are changing quickly....   I decided to use the steps I was on as part of the compostion. The white balance is hard to set on shots like this, if set to 'dalight' everything looked VERY blue, so I tried diferent levels of warmth...  ...

I always think that you haven't really seen a place until you go to take pictures, alone and with nothing else to do there. A visit with friends or family has way too many distractions and they aren't going to be amused with waiting hours so I can have a good look at the cliffs!  So yesterday I went down to the beach at Beachy Head for the first time proper, to take pictures, and got very lucky with the light. It takes some planning to get a low tide and decent light, and it's a good idea to leave before it...

NEW pictures - one-off non-edtioned signed prints, coming soon.....

  I took the opportunity of a full moon on New Years Day to go out onto the dark beach at Broomhill Sands/Jurys Gap end of Camber last night. The water that drains off the beach causes these rivulets and this was the first time I had shot them by moonlight. Luckily there was a bit of soft cloud to spread the moonlight into a larger softer illumination. I have found that clear sky moon shots look more or less like daylight when shot with long exposures on modern cameras. So the moving cloud and the dark distance makes it clear this in moonilight and...