Morning Has Broken
This shot was taken from Looe seafront one early morning in December. The sun had risen about 20 minutes before but a good sunrise picture was spoilt by that big bank of cloud on the horizon. As the sun started to rise through the cloud it started to emanate these fantastic light rays. The brightness of the sun has meant that I have had to use a fast shutter speed which has had the effect of making the clouds darker than they were to the eye, however I feel this adds a little more drama to the scene. Incidentally the flare seen in this picture is not a lens effect but was what I actually saw at the time.
I wanted my composition to be very simple with just a short strip of sea in the foreground with the emphasis on the cloud formation as the subject. I like the way the suns rays radiate from the centre and the way the clouds are outlined on the top edge, paticularly on the left hand side. I had to work quickly as this effect only lasted for about five minutes at varying degrees of intensity, so I took about ten shots and this I felt was the best of them.
