Lucky light at Llanddulas - a photo on Flickriver

I'd love to say this had been a planned location shoot for sunrise this morning, but the truth be told I'd had an extra half hour in bed pressing snooze on the alarm so I well was behind schedule for my planned location so I just decided to go out anyway and literally just see what happened as the forecast wasn't looking great for a decent sunrise with the cloud needed.

Driving along the A55 into North Wales it didn't look very hopeful and I still didn't have a definite location either as I'd decided to give Talacre lighthouse a miss this time, as the light started to break through the dark still it didn't look great until I got towards Colwyn Bay where the weather had taken a real turn with dark skies with a hint of deep red, it was obvious something was about to happen, probably along the lines of a storm so I decided to just find the nearest beach, find some sort of composition and wait it out.

I ended up at Llanddulas shooting the large wooden groynes going into the sea, out at sea there was the beginnings of a rainbow that just dissapeared into the cloud, hardly visible, the stormy light was pretty good though and I got a few good images despite the heavy cloud, soon after though it started to rain, and pretty much at the same time the sun came up over the horizon from behind me turning the dull grey uninteresting rocks on the beach into a gorgeous bright gold, and if that wasn't enough the rainbow that had been nothing more than a mere dash of colour out at sea now turned into a full blown double super bright rainbow stretching right onto the beach amidst this golden light. In a bit of a panic I had to recompose to get this scene in using the shadows of the groynes as a lead into the scene and praying that 16mm would be enough to capture it as there was no way I could change to the 14mm in the rain.

This was the end result, I managed 2 images, the first when I got home was totally ruined by water spots so I was really praying the next one after I'd cleaned the lens was a keeper, thankfully it was. This combination lasted about 2 minutes at most, the rainbow vanished, and so did the light, the beach and sky returning to a flat dull grey, like nothing had ever happened.

Probably the best extra half hours sleep in I've had !

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Taken in: United Kingdom / Wales / Llanddulas (show map)

Taken on: October 1, 2018

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