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Its amazing how light changes so dramatically during sunrise. More than any time of the day, the world in which we live is subjected to radical and immediate changes due to the rising sun in the eastern sky. This was taken only moments before the other shot I recently posted, yet it looks so different.

Location - Man O' War Beach, Dorset Year Taken - January 2015 Camera - Canon 5d MKiii Lens - Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM Exposure - 1/4 seconds ISO - 100 Aperture - f/16 Filters - Lee Circular Polariser, ND Grad 0.9 and ND Grad 0.6

So today, I met up with a friend named Russ and we spent the morning, and best part of the afternoon, photographing Durdle Door. At 8am, the sky was still blue, with nothing in the way of colour of depth, so we waited, and waited and waited. The weather forecast had been for glorious blue skies from dawn till dusk, yet as 8.30am arrived, still nothing. Then...wham. The sun pulled its way above a low lying storm out to see and lit up the Man O' War Beach in glorious shades of orange and red and all things warm. The sea, with thanks to my dinner-plate sized polariser, remained its natural colour, a great cyan contrast with the orange all around. I managed to capture the entire beach as it swept around the bay, flanked by a line of beautiful rocks.

I will write more about the day when Im less tired (and I am seriously exhausted), but make sure you check out Russ' photo stream on here. He has got some incredibly good landscapes and cityscapes in and around the Winchester area, and if you like the work I do Im certain you will like his work too. However, if you like his images from todays shoot more than mine, don't tell me; and more importantly, don't tell him :).