Grass hopper

With all thats going on and having a lot more spare time than normal I've recently invested in an macro lens to document the plants and animals in my garden. Really happy with these shots of grasshoppers that have made our garden their home. 

Summer waves with Lee "pasty" Harvey

Summer swells and winds don't come often and are always very fickle with forecasts saying one thing and the reality being very different, we've had a couple of decent days in Cornwall this summer and luckily they have tied into days when I've not been shooting weddings. This series of photos are of Lee "Pasty" Harvey kite surfing at the bluff and Marazion. I can't wait for the swell to start kicking in around the coast again and I can get out along the coast more with camera and document some more wave riding.

North Cliffs Hayle Cornwall

 

 

Got out on the coast path for a few hours yesterday with the camera even though it was bit grey and miserable managed to get couple of shots of the cliffs, I just love the way the sea and the landscape around where I live changes day by day. Cornwall is so beautiful in its raw state the structure of the cliffs carved out of the granite by the ocean waves and wind.



Sunset at Cot Valley

Spent an eve at the stunning Cot Valley near St Just trying to get the prefect sunset but in the end it didn't play ball but happy with some smokey waves using a 3 stop ND filter to get the effect. By using a ND filter you can extend the shutter times to blur out the waves giving the smokey effect on the sea.

Cape Cornwall and Cot Valley

Cape Cornwall

Cot Valley

Cot Valley

I was blessed growing up in West Cornwall living only a stones through from the sea has meant my life has always been involved with the sea. St Just is the small town in West Cornwall where I grew up it has to beautiful beaches and with this post I hope I've showed them off for what they are.

I can spend days down in this area watching the waves, surfing and fishing every time I take a photo on a trip down there its so different to the last trip I never get board of this area and always looking forward to my next trip home.

BWA wave torr hits Cornwall

Photo from the BWA event held at Gwithian beach Cornwall

Lee Harvey "Kite Surfer" Spring time Kiting

Sometimes you have to make the most of what mother nature gives you, here's a series of photos of Lee "Pasty" Harvey enjoying some spring times waves at home in West Cornwall. If you want to learn to kistsurf in Cornwall then there is no better school than Pasty Adventure's the school run by Lee.
Since picking up my new Canon 5D iii camera I've found shooting in low light so much easier, it just process's images at high iso so much better than anything I've used before. I now fill confident pushing the camera to its limits knowing I'll get amazing results, I'm great full for the small days we've had in recent weeks where I've been able to push the camera's limits and see what it can do but at the same time knowing if something  went wrong then I'm not going to miss too much.
The bit that's has amazed me the most about the 5D is how crisp the images are and the colour replication its produces is spot on.