Marks Wasted Time: Westbury Sunset

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Westbury Sunset

Panorama of Westbury White Horse, Wiltshire.

Taken on the 24th September, when the Harvest moon was rising in the East at the same time as the last summer Sunset faded in the West. However, with clouds obscuring the eastern skies I had to settle for this angle.

Was all a rush in the end, since a passing storm was throwing up amazing rainbows. I spent precious time trying in vain to find a nice spot with the rainbow and white horse in, before I gave up and headed up onto the ridge for the Sunset.

Is a composite of 14 images, 7 exposed for the sky, 7 for the land.

1 comment:

Mark said...: Hi
Apologies for the delay in replying.
If you are ok with the size of the image uploaded to blogger, then I'm happy for you to use it. The full resolution image is reserved for printing unfortunately.
thanks
Mark; 4:33 pm

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Whos wasted time?

My name is Mark Coombes, I live in the South of England, near the City of Bath. I'm 42 and have a deep passion for all things photographic. I always had some artistic talent, but never had the patience for most art forms, so digital photography suits me down to the ground.

I was given a Canon 1000F for my 18th birthday with some old Sigma lenses, but really only got serious in 2006 when I bought a 350D. My equipment went from 17-85mm, 100-300mm IS and Sigma 105mm Macro, to a 16-35mm II L and 100-400mm L thanks to some serious saving and in 2010 I upgraded to a Canon 50D, before finally investing in a Canon 5D mark III in 2013. Since then I've added various flashes, flash modifiers, filters, polarisers, tripods and a Canon 135mm f/2 lens.

I tend to photograph anything and everything that I find photogenic, combined with my passion for adventure and exploration most of my photos are happy coincidences, rather than the odd planned or staged effort. If I was to pick one specific area to specialise in it would be wildlife photography, especially now I'm getting out for less sunrise landscapes. Only time will tell where it leads and if anything productive ever comes out of it, or if I am just wasting time..