I went for a walk at the seafront here in Edinburgh last night and was lucky to catch a nice sunset and some fine reflections against the incoming tide.
There is a series of concrete pillars that stretch from the shore out to Crammond Island, which you can walk to at low tide. They used to carry electricity cables at the top. The pillars are quite monolithic looking, and last night the weather was so calm, that they were reflecting perfectly against the incoming tide !
The picture above shows what they look like in normal light.
I was only using my phone camera, and it automatically adjusts in low light/sunset conditions, and I liked how it was silhouetting the pillars against the sunset. That combined with the reflections made from some nice pics.
As can be seen some of the pillars are damaged which makes for some nice variation. Star Wars fans - put your hands over the pillars on the left and right in the pic above to be left with a tie-fighter in the middle !!!
It looks like I was taking the pics from within the sea, but I was actually on the sand (just) - when the tide comes in, it comes up along a channel beside the pillars first, before covering the part I was on.
I was also able to wade in to cause some ripple, which I also thought looked pretty cool.
I have to say I really enjoyed it and spent a good 20mins there going back and fourth to try and catch some cool images. I wish I also took a panorama which would have stretched out in both directions from the middle.
Further up on the beach I was also able to catch the sunset reflecting on the wet sand. The mounds you can see are the spoil heaps (sand) from lug-worms that have dug down into the sand.
The image above was taken from the other side of the pillars looking west up the Firth of Forth. Considering that what you can see there is the north sea (albeit in a sea inlet) its amazingly calm.
Well I have to say that I really enjoyed the walk and playing around trying to capture the pics. I wouldnt call my self a photographer, but I was happy with how these came out, especially considering I was using my relatively modest phone camera (moto g(9) play) on automatic settings without any adjustment whatsoever (I didnt even adjust zoom at any point). I also havent applied any post processing or cropping.
Well that wraps up this post - I hope you enjoy these as much as I do !
