Port Eynon by day

As a photographer, albeit an amateur one, I've always been fascinated by how the same landscape can look totally different, according to the weather, light conditions, time of day, etc. The first two shots of Port Eynon beach were taken mid-morning, in mid-winter.

The harsh sunlight produced some interesting reflections on the wet sand.


The stream that runs on to the beach at Horton, near the RNLI Lifeboat station, almost looked like mercury, in the same harsh light.


Full sun on a late summer afternoon, bathed the beach and its kelp beds in a much softer light. This shot almost has a retro feel to it, kind of like the retouched colour photography that was around in the 1950s.