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The clouds looked fantastic last night so I went down to Lilstock for the first time in a long while, despite the sunset angle being 'wrong' for the best colours.

Kilve can be a little tricky at low tide as the water is so far out and tricky under foot if the seas have been calm (lots of fine mud), Lilstock has some interesting rocks and features that can be easy to get to.

This is, I understand, remains of the old breakwater leading back up to the Pill (harbour) - doing it's job as you can see, calm on the right and choppy on the left! Now I know the right tide level for this feature, I'll be back when the sunset reaches round the hills and more into the channel!

Just spent a relaxing week on the Lizard Peninsular in Cornwall, staying in a lovely little converted sail loft near the coast.

Although the weather wasn't great for photography (a lot of cloud, no rain though) I did manage this sunrise at the nearby harbour at Coverack.

This was one of those 5 min sunrises where the cloud was lit from beneath for a short while before disappearing so I was glad to get this before it disappeared!

Sigma 17-70 f/2.8 with ND4 grad.

As we're not really all that far from the eastern flanks of Exmoor, I proposed a trip to Hay Tor with Jay for sunrise yesterday.

The angle of sunrise presented a couple of problems with balancing the exposure across the scene, so I stacked 2 ND grads to allow me to shoot into the sun - although this caused flare issues and the dust I neglected to clean caught 'speckles' of light!

The colours haven't been changed in processing, all I've done is alter the curves a little and dodged some of the exposure.

We happened to need a trip to Weston Super Mare today, so decided to walk along the bracing sea front before we headed off home.

I got some nice shots of a rainbow above the pier but decided to convert this one to black and white, as it was all about the tones across the image rather than the colour.

I like the way the branch that has washed up on the beach has joined the local tourist office to point the way to the fun of the Pier!

At last - a chance to get out with my new lens and new 100mm filters!

Although the weather wasn't fantastic (a mix of brief sun, cloud and drizzle) we took a trip to Porlock Weir to see what we could shoot.

As the tide was a long way out I decided to compose something interesting on the wooden harbour piled wall that holds back the shingle beach. I used a Grad ND4 filter to lower the sky exposure, processed to extenuate the contrast across the scene.

I haven't been back at high tide for a while, I think I will check out the tide tables and try for a spring to get some long exposures of the water against the piles.

View in light box and you get more sense of the tones against black!