Outdoor Photography - Viewpoints

Yet again I blink and another month or so rolls by without a posting. So, a little belated this one, but I had a short piece I wrote on Rhossili Bay in Wales for the Viewpoints section of Outdoor Photography published last month (March edition).

RHOSSILI BAY, SWANSEA

Coincidentally (on a concious level at least) I decided to visit Mewslade Bay just a little way along the south coast of the Gower from Rhossili last week. I managed to miss the turn off for the beach and ended up in Rhossili. Rather than turn round I decided to park up at Rhossili and take a leisurely stroll along the coast path to Mewslade Bay.

The tide was out when I arrived which is not the best way to go about photographing beaches and so I found myself being chased up the beach by the incoming tide. There are lots of places to get trapped at Mewslade so you need to keep a close eye on the tide - it's easy to become distracted when composing a photograph. With an hour left before sunset I had run out of pristine beach and cliffs.

Had I parked up at the end of the footpath as I had intended I may have simply driven straight home, but I had to walk back to Rhossili and on the way back my mind turned towards the possibilities that awaited me there. I was soon on the beach setting up in anticipation of a beautiful dusk afterglow. I wasn't disappointed