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:

Kynance Cove - Photography Week 6 (2016)

Kynance Cove is described as "one of the prettiest coves in Cornwall" (1) and "one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in the South West" by the BBC (2).

May be because I have only visited in the winter months, I have a different impression. Kynance signifies, for me, the raw power of nature and its beauty is a wild beauty rather than a pretty one.

I have tried capture some of this wildness with the following results:

The cove is managed by the National Trust including a tea room which first opened in 1929 (2). 

A couple of the buildings nearby have been condemned as unsafe:

Subtly coloured pebbles on the beach:

(1) http://www.cornwall-beaches.co.uk/helston-lizard-falmouth/kynance-cove.htm

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kynance_Cove