Another Point of View - a photo on Flickriver

            I've already written a lengthy account of my visit to Kynance Cove last weekend.  You probably don't want to hear any more about it, but there's always another tale somewhere if I can just drag it out of this keyboard on a Friday evening at the end of another long week at the swamp.

Some of you will have read stories on this page of the adventures and misadventures of a wide angle lens that came into my possession in the spring of 2019.  I won't go over those again - no need to overuse a well worn saga.  Recently I resolved to revive its fortunes because it had lain unused in my spare bag for several months.  I was worried that it might start to show signs of neglect, and it had also occurred to me that there may have been a reason why I'd purchased it in the first place.  So one evening I resolved to address the situation, deliberately leaving the other lenses at home and took it to Gwithian, where we had a very enjoyable evening together (or at least we did until a large party invaded my space along with an over enthusiastic dog, whose name I learned in full Sensurround more than once was Spencer).  If a lens were some form of sentient being it might have felt like one of your children does when you take them somewhere special on their own.  Not that I've ever done anything like that or I'd have still been hearing about it twenty years later.  My daughter still complains about her brother having a Penguin biscuit when for some unremembered reason she missed out on one. This happened in 1996 by the way.

So that was it.  I'd made my point and used the lens and made some shots that I was happy enough with.  One of them I shared with you three or four weeks ago, although when I remember the heat of the afternoon that day it seems a lot longer.  Now I could stuff the lens back into its bag like the lone occupant of an empty old manor house and everything would return to normal.  Except that the lens stayed on the camera.  This was partly because I'd forgotten just how sharp it could make an image from back to front, and partly because it just happened that in a couple of subsequent outings it was the only one which was going to swallow the entire composition that I had in mind.  Last Saturday at Kynance was one of those days, and this view over the sea stacks could only work if I had some foreground in the composition.  For that I needed to zoom out to 16mm. 
Standing among this outcrop high on the cliff I moved the tripod about by small degrees, a couple of inches to the left, half a step backwards, trying very slightly different placings and then making a focus stack.  Ultimately the ever changing sky decided which version I'd share with you and all of the small and subtle foreground changes became irrelevant.  

So now the lens is back where it belongs.  There it sits in front of me in the main bag, adding to my options and so also by default my confusion levels as I head out towards the great wherever with that sense of anticipation that makes us all what we are.  Tomorrow I have a plan.  I want to try and do a better job of an image I took in the summer.  Wish me luck.  I love having a plan and I love not knowing what adventures tomorrow will bring.  Have a great weekend everyone, and remember to dust off that forgotten piece of kit you paid all that money for and have left unused.  You won't regret it.

Taken in: UK / England / Landewednack (show map)

Taken on: October 3, 2020

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, f/11.0, 1/80 sec, 16mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Lens:	EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	16mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 21.2 (Windows)
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