Meeting at 05:45, I and some fellow photographers were revisiting a local favourite location for seascape shooting, the celebrated Caister-on-Sea.
We made our way from the car park, across the dunes and over towards the post which is in front of the view of the sea and wind turbines.
The sky was looking good with some pleasant sunrise colours.
While I like my first shot, I knew it was a little one dimensional in terms of composition and feeling. It has all the attributes of a snap, albeit a good snap.
I moved around a little and while my fellow photographers had moved a bit further up the beach.
I didn’t move far but I turned my body to my right for a more pleasing angle, and I became intrigued by the circular patterns forming in the shingle as the waves splashed in.
This position was producing much more satisfying captured and the shot below is my favourite of the morning.
I have cloned out some of the wind turbines on the left of the horizon as they would’ve presented a distraction.
There are some other variations of my favourite shots and potentially some others equally as enjoyable – see below.
It was time for me to shift so I wandered further up to witness the sun now above the horizon and behind the turbines.
I really like the warm feeling from the image below.
I snapped another shot similar to my first of the day but, other than the sun and its reflection across the sea, it is still ‘flat’!
For my final efforts, I took some shots on the beach near some rocks and was a little obsessed trying to shoot a leading line/path through the rocks that in my mind at least, a viewer’s eye would follow.
The man walking his dog I had hoped would add something but it’s not a shot I consider even worthy of sharing online.
With that, the sun was now on full show and the light much harsher and a wrap was declared.
We wandered back to our cars chatting about the morning and how enjoyable it had been.
This was my first ‘home’ shoot since being back from Iceland and the fresh sea air had done me the world of good as I had been ill with a virus for the previous week or two.
Onwards and upwards…