Framedlight

That evening I went down to the beach at Cobo Bay to get some night time shots. Guernsey is an official 'dark sky' location and a good place to see the Milky Way. The group were playing with light effects, so I had a little go at that as well. For the sky pictures I kept my speed down to 30 seconds so that the stars did not appear as streaks. This did not appear to be as short a time needed for this and there is a little streaking.

True to form I am over a year late in getting these pictures on the blog.        October last year I went on a week long trip to Guernsey with some members of Cambridge Camera Club. The trip was very kindly organised by Ann Miles who had made a rough programme of things we could do each day. We had rented 3 cars between us so that we could get round the island and also so that we could be flexible in what different people wanted to photograph. We stayed  in Cobo Bay which is on the north east side of the island and arriving in the afternoon of the first day there was only time for a little photography. We were lucky to have a room with a balcony overlooking the sea, so I took some pictures of the other members of the group standing at the water's edge with their tripods.  The next morning we walked along the broad sands of Cobo Bay until we reached a rocky outcrop at the end. This promontory holds the remains of the Grande Rocque Battery. Dur...