No sunrise as such this morning but it was still worth the 1 hour drive to this location in Northumberland. The clouds may have been blocking the light but mother nature gave me a fantastic 'S' curve cut out from the sand by Embleton Burn. With that black rock as a foreground and added frothiness swooshing around it, prefect! Well almost. Just wish I could have had that fiery sunrise too...

Meet Huuber the dog model. I don't usually partake in model nights at my camera club but tonight had a rather special model in the form of Uber, who belongs to one of the clubs members. a truly professional model, well behaved, well most of the time, and a joy to work with. So, rather than the usual landscape photo, here is Huuber!

I didn't expect to get a colourful sunrise this morning but I didn't expect the sky to be so full of cloud either. This didn't dampen my hopes of getting some kind of image though, as the sea was rough, the tide high and on its way out. I stood on the steps down to the promenade  for a few minutes, carefully studying the motion of the waves that would occasionally crash over the railings and  if I wasn't careful with my choice of viewpoint, over me and the camera. That wouldn't have been a great start to the day at all! Luckily my observations paid off and as the waves crashed around me I didn't even get a slight dampening.  I set up the camera and tripod and started taking my shots. I wanted the water to retain some feeling of movement in the final image so chose a  slow but not too long shutter speed, timing the moment I pushed the button so the water would be running off the rocks rather than mid wave. As there was no colour to speak of I knew I could only be shooting a mono image so contrast and form was it most important factor for me. In the end, I'm very happy with the image I have chosen to show you out of the 50 or so I took. Hope you like it too.

Just sharing another of the images I took yesterday evening at Seaton Sluice. I almost discarded this image until I saw the beams of golden light shining from those clouds. 

Copt Hill, Houghton-le-Spring. Even though the weather forecast wasn't looking good for a sunset this evening, I decided to take a chance and head out to this local spot only 10 minutes from my home. Looking towards the west it was clear that the forecast was correct as a huge bank of thick grey cloud moved over the path of the setting sun but looking eastwards, yielded pink clouds and I was able to get this shot before the colour faded and I headed home. I was only out of the house for 45 minutes and took 8 photos but it was worth the trip out after tea.

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 A couple watch the sunset behind the Angel of the North in Gateshead. #angelsunset #angelofthenorth #gateshead #romanticevening #dfp4747 #davidfletcherphotography #fletchphoto #autumnevenings