Worm's Head & Rhossili Bay

The Gower Peninsula is a beautiful place.  Rhossili bay, on its Western tip, is about an hour or so drive from my home, so when there was a forecast for a spectacular sunset I headed straight there.

As I was driving down there, the sun was getting lower and it looked like I was in for a superb bit of light to reward my trip.  But as I made the short walk from the car park thick clouds started to appear on the horizon and by the time I had set my camera up the light had all but vanished.

But un-deterred I pressed on with my plans to get at least one image from my trip; and I got two!

The first one, of Worm’s Head, was shot with a polarising filter to take the glare off the sea water, a 3-stop graduated filter to balance the exposure between sky, sea and land and a 3-stop neutral density filter to smooth the sea.

Nikon D800, Nikkor 16-35 f4.0 at 18mm
5 seconds at f11, ISO 100
tripod, remote release 

For the second image of Rhossili Bay, I remembered the first golden rule of landscape photography: always look behind you!

So, I turned my camera around, removed the ND filter as the light by now was fading fast and I wanted a shorter exposure to capture the waves, and I got this image of the bay itself.

Nikon D800, Nikkor 16-35 f4.0 at 18mm
2/3 of a second at f11, ISO 100
tripod, remote release

I’m quite happy with the images given the light wasn’t quite as special as I’d hoped.  Hopefully you’ll enjoy them too?