Dark Island, Western Ocean
The beach and dunes on Berneray stretch at night into the extended summer twilight of the Outer Hebrides with the isle of Pabay offshore.
Some summer nights in the Hebrides it hardly gets dark, a consequence of its latitude and the surrounding reflective sea. Instead, a kind of deep and perpetual gloom can develop that allows for shooting late into the night and is one of my main reasons for returning here. Its never the same. The cloud and weather patterns are shifting all the time. What was clear blue sky an hour or two ago is now heavily clouded and this long exposure shot, taken around 11pm, brings out the subtle structure and light in the cloud layer above whilst lending an eerie sense of scale and distance to the scene.
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Laura Boston-Thek gave props (29 Jun 2009):
OH WOW just glorious!!
