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S T - C A T H E R I N E ' S - I S L A N D

📍 Tenby 🌊☀️

Here's a photo from my recent trip to Wales...

On the morning of this shoot, I intended to photograph the old lifeboat station on Tenby's North Beach. My previsualisation failed me though. I don't know how, but I hadn't visualised the rising sun behind the structure causing it to be silhouetted - which wasn't really what I wanted.

I decided to switch over from Tenby's South Beach. There, I found the rising sun painting St Catherine's Island in golden light for a more colourful photo.

About St Catherine's Island:
▪️ 200m long x 60m wide x 25m high.
▪️ Riddled with tidal caves - at least one goes right through.
▪️ Owned by The Earl of Pembroke in Elizabethan times. The ownership later passed to the Corporation of Tenby.
▪️ There was once a chapel on the island, dedicated to St Catherine, the patron Saint of spinners & weavers - hence the name.
▪️ The fort was built in 1867-1870 during the Napoleonic Wars.
▪️ By 1886 the fort had its full armament of six 7" R.M.L's (cannons) and three 9" R.M.L's.
▪️ When constructing the fort, the chapel ruins were removed. An Egyptian effigy, human bones and Roman coins where uncovered.
▪️ In 1907, the island was sold privately for £500 (about £62,000 in today's money!... you can't buy a small plot Cornwall for that now!)
▪️ Later it was owned by the Windsor-Richards family who had amassed wealth from the South Wales Iron & Steel industry. They occupied the fort and decorated it with carpets, animal skins, tapestries, trophy cabinets and stag head trophies. The house was compulsory purchased in 1940, and the internal fittings auctioned by Harrods.
▪️ In 1968, the island was turned into a zoo before relocating in 1979. The fort has stood empty since.

Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 24mm | ƒ/11 | 1/6 sec | ISO 100 | Tripod | Soft grad filter (I think!) | Lightroom & Photoshop | Taken at Tenby on 16-09-2021

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Taken in: UK / Wales / Tenby / Tenby (show map)

Taken on: September 16, 2021

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II, f/11.0, 1/6 sec, 24mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Lens:	EF24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.167 sec (1/6)
Focal Length:	24mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 22.5 (Windows)
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