The photograph above was taken on a windy afternoon with heavy, grey clouds skimming across the sky and waves being blown against the shore by the strong wind. I took several images at ISO 400 trying to catch a lull in the wind; fortunately one was sharp \ud83d\ude42 It’s one of those photographs that works well large as there is huge detail in the lichen, the moss and foreground rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second photograph is a little different. To my mind it’s a sunrise machine; some long forgotten machine left behind by aliens to control the sun! Well, ok, perhaps not but that’s what I was thinking as I stood there waiting for the sun to rise from behind those two great protruberences!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whilst exploring the area the preceding afternoon I noted the great shape and immediately thought it could work as a black and white. After a quick check of PhotoPills<\/a> and The Photographers Ephemeris (TPE)<\/a> – I can’t decide which I prefer – I knew the sun would rise at just the right position on the horizon too. The following morning I got lucky as the sun rose through a bank of cloud whilst illuminating the more broken clouds above. I have a colour edit of the same image with great colours in the sky, but I prefer the simplicity of the black and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Continuing the recent post about my Christmas in Cornwall I thought I’d post a couple of black & white photographs from a tiny cove just to the South of Lands End called Porthgwarra. Porthgwarra has a great little shop which does amazing tea and cake in the summer but, sadly, it’s closed over the winter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[812,18,9,39],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-and-white","category-landscape","tag-coast","tag-cornwall","tag-england","tag-porthgwarra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Porthgwarra](\"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AGP_GP_3810-1024x1024.jpg\")