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I had planned to be at Whitby this morning to catch the sunrise over Saltwick Bay.
My alarm clock failed to go off so that meant I was up after sunrise (not a good start)
Nevertheless, I set of on the A64 and hit a major traffic Jam just past york, (wished I had stayed in bed now).
Got to Whitby at about 13.00 and wow what alot of people there were on the streets. Drove round and round for 1 Hour looking for somewhere to park, not a chance.....
Decided to go upto Saltwick Bay to photograph the black Nab, according to my tide table the tide was at its lowest at 14.45. Met someone else up there who had told me for some reason the tide had not really gone out very far today and was now on its way back in. (Surley things cant get any worse)
Off I trot to the west cliff again and wow.... I managed to find a car parking space
so I trundled down to the pier with my tripod slung over my shoulder and decided to take some long exposures. (Things are starting to look up)
Set up the tripod, took a test shot roughly 60 seconds, viewed the results on the LCD and noticed it was out of focus. Not to worry at least the exposure looked ok.
Started to unscrew the B+W 10 stop filter and before you could say "jack robinson", it slipped out of my hands, bounced on the harbour wall and with my mouth open I watched it tumble into the sea.
I knew I should have stayed in bed...
My alarm clock failed to go off so that meant I was up after sunrise (not a good start)
Nevertheless, I set of on the A64 and hit a major traffic Jam just past york, (wished I had stayed in bed now).
Got to Whitby at about 13.00 and wow what alot of people there were on the streets. Drove round and round for 1 Hour looking for somewhere to park, not a chance.....
Decided to go upto Saltwick Bay to photograph the black Nab, according to my tide table the tide was at its lowest at 14.45. Met someone else up there who had told me for some reason the tide had not really gone out very far today and was now on its way back in. (Surley things cant get any worse)
Off I trot to the west cliff again and wow.... I managed to find a car parking space
so I trundled down to the pier with my tripod slung over my shoulder and decided to take some long exposures. (Things are starting to look up)Set up the tripod, took a test shot roughly 60 seconds, viewed the results on the LCD and noticed it was out of focus. Not to worry at least the exposure looked ok.
Started to unscrew the B+W 10 stop filter and before you could say "jack robinson", it slipped out of my hands, bounced on the harbour wall and with my mouth open I watched it tumble into the sea.
I knew I should have stayed in bed...
