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If you head straight out to the beach from the Trump hotel where we were staying you come to this stone and concrete pier going straight out into the water. I’m not sure it actually does very much other than act as a bit of a seawall but it does provide a good vantage point to shoot up and down the beach and of course looking straight out to sea

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

The Pier is just a two minute walk from the hotel so I figured I’d give it a shot at sunrise one morning

About halfway out I could use the pier to shoot from and include the end of the rocky break and the white crusted rocks in my foreground and look down the beach to the north west towards the Hilton Resort. It’s 5:40AM (25 minutes before sunrise) and we’ve got a two minute long exposure with a 3 stop hard grad and a CPL for company

Purple Dawn

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 123 sec at f/11, ISO 400

Sunrise colour came and went quite quickly

Diamond Dawn

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 18 mm, 21.00 sec at f/11, ISO 50

but just after we started getting a touch of pastel colour in the sky – time for some shots looking straight down the pier and out to sea before the morning hordes of people really started coming out

All Out to Sea

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 8 sec at f/11, ISO 50

and a quick selfie whilst I had the pier to myself (there was a fisherman out at the end earlier)

Alone with the Sea

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 8 sec at f/16, ISO 50

and then other tourists started arriving to enjoy the start of a new day and try their own photos at the end of the pier – this opportune cloud formation lit by the low rising sun just couldn’t be wasted

Morning Pointers

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 8 sec at f/16, ISO 50

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