Sea scapes

Porthleven - Black and White photograph

Black and White photograph of Porthleven

An interesting photograph of the peir at Porthleven. The sea spray has softened the focus as well as the apature being set to around f3.5 to reduce the distant focus.

I really like the way the clouds and the hard line of the pier take you into the photograph, leading the eye into the middle distance. As well as the contrast of the white sea spume against the dark granite structure of the pier.

This photograph is pretty much off camera. The only area I have really adjusted is the clouds. I dodged and burned over them a little bit, to increase the darkness and contrast on the bottom of them.

There are a few more pictures of Porthleven here,

• Porthleven photograph in Colour
• Storm at Porthleven

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Storm at Porthleven

This digital photograph was taken during the March 10th storms.

Storm Force winds

Winds of over 80 mph battered the Cornish coast line, with Porthleven, St Ives and areas around Newquay being heavily hit.

The conditions made it very hard to capture a clear digital photograph. The wind was creating huge camera shake, the sea spray was constantly clouding the lens and the weather conditions were changing very quickly. I travelled around the Cornish coast from Penzance to Lands End, around to Sennan Cove and then to Porthleven. Below are a few more photographs that I took while out storm hunting. Click an image to see the larger photograph.

Winter surf

The waves were very busy this day. Loads of locals and a few from around the county, made it down to enjoy the reef break while it was working. The swell was perfect on this day, and the small off shore breeze just helped nicely to lift the face of the wave.

Reef break at Porthleven

This image was taken a few days after the March 10th storms that battered Cornwall. You can get an idea as to the size of the wave by the two surfers on the left side.