Kynance Cove - Photography Week 41 (2016)

On one of the few fine weather days during photography week 41 (10th to 16th October 2016), I made the trip to Kynance Cove. And, despite the time of year, there were plenty of people on the beach and some were brave enough to go for a swim. This meant waiting for the wide angle shots until the beach had cleared:

Later on the cliffs there was a pleasant afterglow - the sun had dipped behind cloud on the horizon losing about 20 minutes of direct sunlight:

Earlier, as the tide was retreating, the late afternoon sun was reflected back from the cliffs onto the wet sand creating a golden glow. I tried to capture this with a number abstract compositions. The square format images were taken with a compact camera using its naturally wide depth of field. The landscape / portrait versions were taken with a DLSR and a telephoto lens. This option provided a more creative depth of field but posed questions about selecting a point of focus and, now looking at the results, whether the out of focus areas are actually too districting:

Finally, some sand patterns on the beach: