What about Whitby? 9

Whitby is one of the few places in Britain where the sun rises and sets at sea, doubling the opportunity for lots of lovely low light landscape shots.

Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of early starts: Dracula is a morning person compared to me. So instead, here are some of my sunsets!

Playing with the 'soft focus' setting.

Lots of gulls swooping about.

I've used a version of this as the cover for my Whitby book of souvenir photos.

You can just make out the steeple of the church in Lythe.

I was upset by the number of airplane contrails this particular evening, but the lighthouse made an excellent silhouette.

Rule number one of sunset shots: always take a look behind you!

Again with the contrails!

Again with a quick look over my shoulder!

And again with the soft focus!

Now compare the soft focus effect above to the much warmer automatic 'sunset' setting below.

Just about managed to disguise the contrail in this one. Some lovely clouds that evening.

Click back next time for photos I took after the sun went down.