Milky Way at Lizard Point
I took this image, Milky Way at Lizard Point on a humid summer night at the Lizard Point, enjoying the unusually warm conditions to set about capturing my night-time still. This was the second time I had ventured down to the country’s most southerly point to capture the Milky Way, and my goal was to re-attempt a photograph I had taken a couple of years previously which I hadn’t been too happy with. This time, with improved techniques under my belt and balmy conditions behind me, I took up a place behind the old lifeboat station and set up my camera ready to immortalise the sky above.
As it was low tide, I had plenty of room on the otherwise empty beach to pick the perfect spot. I found a place to the far side of Polpeor beach, with the faintly illuminated silhouette of the old lifeboat station in the midground. Thanks to the clear skies of the Lizard, there was no light pollution, which meant both the stars and the Milky Way – which seemed to rainfall down towards the lifeboat slipway – were fantastically bright overhead. Using the camera to gather light over a long exposure, I was able to capture the majesty of all the many millions of stars and planets shining overhead.
I took this image, Milky Way at Lizard Point on a humid summer night at the Lizard Point, enjoying the unusually warm conditions to set about capturing my night-time still. This was the second time I had ventured down to the country’s most southerly point to capture the Milky Way, and my goal was to re-attempt a photograph I had taken a couple of years previously which I hadn’t been too happy with. This time, with improved techniques under my belt and balmy conditions behind me, I took up a place behind the old lifeboat station and set up my camera ready to immortalise the sky above.
As it was low tide, I had plenty of room on the otherwise empty beach to pick the perfect spot. I found a place to the far side of Polpeor beach, with the faintly illuminated silhouette of the old lifeboat station in the midground. Thanks to the clear skies of the Lizard, there was no light pollution, which meant both the stars and the Milky Way – which seemed to rainfall down towards the lifeboat slipway – were fantastically bright overhead. Using the camera to gather light over a long exposure, I was able to capture the majesty of all the many millions of stars and planets shining overhead.
I took this image, Milky Way at Lizard Point on a humid summer night at the Lizard Point, enjoying the unusually warm conditions to set about capturing my night-time still. This was the second time I had ventured down to the country’s most southerly point to capture the Milky Way, and my goal was to re-attempt a photograph I had taken a couple of years previously which I hadn’t been too happy with. This time, with improved techniques under my belt and balmy conditions behind me, I took up a place behind the old lifeboat station and set up my camera ready to immortalise the sky above.
As it was low tide, I had plenty of room on the otherwise empty beach to pick the perfect spot. I found a place to the far side of Polpeor beach, with the faintly illuminated silhouette of the old lifeboat station in the midground. Thanks to the clear skies of the Lizard, there was no light pollution, which meant both the stars and the Milky Way – which seemed to rainfall down towards the lifeboat slipway – were fantastically bright overhead. Using the camera to gather light over a long exposure, I was able to capture the majesty of all the many millions of stars and planets shining overhead.