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After a long walk down the South West Coastal path, came across this cliff face, riddles with pock marks of slate mining.
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The cliff here has been weathered as much by the hand of man as the Atlantic. The huge pillar of rock in the upper left of the frame a man-made feature, left over from the days of the Cornish slate trade.

It was an overcast day, and usually i keep these days for location research, but the muted light, the gun metal colour of the rock from the morning's rain and the way the foreground rocks mirrored the jagged lines of the cove kept me there for about an hour.

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For about a year i've had this shot in mind thanks to some lost hours on the Photographer's Ephemeris (a highly recommended for any shoot planning), and been thwarted twice in 2 years.

This time nature played ball.

Maybe it was luck, but as Arnold Palmer said "the more i practice, the luckier i get".

Often the worst weather can offer the best light and on this night that held true. The quality light here in Cornwall is so unpredictable, it changes so rapidly, and when weather fronts blow in off the Atlantic, it can really deliver some amazing displays of tone, mood and colour.