Friday 6 April 2012

Flamborough Head


I love this shot. Summer 2010, on holiday with the family, and a beautiful summer day at Flamborough. We drove to the North Landing bay, which although a pebble beach had lots of little caves for the boys (aged 2 and 9) to explore and some good waves breaking around the headland..

It used to house the local lifeboat, and still has a selection of boats on the concrete ramp. Whilst my boys played I had a wander around and looked at how to capture the scene. What I love about this shot is the memory invoked, but also the amount of interest - the boat, the amazing limestone cliffs, the people on the beach. My boys are the two stood at the shore line by the way.

In post-processing I converted to black and white with an infrared effect to pull out the contrast between the sky and the brilliant white cliffs.

Nikon D90, Nikon 18-105mm VR lens. ISO 200, F16, 1/160 sec