This time of year is rather tiring on the outdoor photographer at a latitude of 53°:N.
With sunrise at 4.45am and sunset at 9.45pm, shooting at the beginning and end of the day takes some stamina, but scenes like this sunset over the sea from Llanfairfechan on the North wales coast make the effort worthwhile.
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The great thing about shooting time lapse videos at the seaside is that there's always something moving.
I'm talking about the tide of course, and with a maximum tidal range of around eight metres, the North Wales coast provides some extreme changes of view to capture.
Such as these two views of a wooden jetty on the foreshore at Llandudno's North Shore, one with the tide coming in and one with the tide going out.
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The North Wales coast is one of those wonderful places in the world that just keeps on giving and giving, visually and to all the orther senses as well.
But seeing as I can't present the smell of the shore or the feel of a sea breeze here at goHOWiE.com, I'll just have to be content with a visually stunning and beautiful sunset, filmed over wet sand at Colwyn Bay on a gorgeous summer's evening.
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Llandudno is in a unique location on the North Wales, with views out to sea facing almost all the points of the compass.
A fact I made use of earlier this month when capturing the stills for these two time lapse videos, showing both sunrise and sunset from each end of the North Shore promenade.
This is only possible around midsummer, and makes for some very early starts and late finishes!
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Along with stunning natural beauty, North Wales is also home to some very impressive castles, such as Conway Castle, captured here in this timelapse video clip during dusk at low tide on the Conwy estuary.
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Phew - Midsummer is a busy old time photographically speaking in North Wales, with sunset at around quarter to ten giving very long days with little sleep.
But who would want to be indoors when there's so much beauty to be enjoyed and captured on time lapse video.
Such as this sunset over the Conwy estuary, only visible in this location in the couple of week either side of the longest day.
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Shooting time lapse sequences of the moon using a long lens can be quite tricky, requiring a relatively clear sky either side of sunrise or sunset, and no wind to buffet the camera, which causes a twitchy video.
So on the rare occasions when these meteorological factors come together I try and take advantage, adding to my library of time lapse clips showing the moon in different phases.
So here are my two latest efforts, featuring the moon in both gibbous and crescent phases.
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We're back on the time lapse videos here at goHOWiE.com for the next few days, as I have quite a backlog of clips to produce and present.
Starting off, here are four short films featuring the iconic pier at Cromer on the North Sea coast of Norfolk, shot whilst on holiday in this lovely, but somewhat flat, part of the UK.
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My cry of 'just one more photo' turned into a dozen or so as I shot the overlapping frames for this panoramic collage of Colwyn bay at twilight on the North Wales coast.
Still, you wouldn't want to stint when capturing such a beautiful scene!
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Taken towards sunset, these four images from Cregennan Lakes in the Snowdonia National Park, Wales, show the transformational effect of 'golden hour' light on the landscape.
Just compare these four images with those presented on 8th June, taken earlier in the day with the sun high in the sky.
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More images from my wife Liz's and my last day trip to Cregennan Lakes, set like jewels in the uplands of southern Snowdonia on an unusually clear, sunny and calm day for this part of the world.
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Clear, sunny weather and a free day were all the incentive my wife Liz and I needed for a drive through the Snowdonia National Park to one of our favourite places, Cregennan Lakes, set high in the mountains above the Mawddach Estuary.
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Living in North Wales you soon learn to appreciate active weather, especially when you get magnificent cloud displays like this stacked tower of cumulus over the coast, catching the light of the setting sun on a beautiful evening.
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If you needed any proof that North Wales is one of the most beautiful places in the world, then these images of typical Snowdonia scenery, taken at Capel Curig on a lovely spring afternoon, should be enough to convince you!
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Whew! - Just got back from a week's holiday in Norfolk - Nice, but flat!
So I'm glad to be back home in mountainous North Wales, with it's rocky and varied coastline such as here at Moelfre on the beautiful Isle of Anglesey, with today's image featuring a panorama of Moelfre Island, home to a colony of very raucous sea birds.
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One of my wife Liz and my favourite stretches of the 125 mile long Anglesey Coastal Path is at Moelfre, on the east coast of the island.
And here are just a few photographs showing why.
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Wow - after a month's solid effort I've finally cleared the backlog of time lapse videos I'd been producing and can get back to presenting some still photos, such as this collection of nautical detritus, spotted in a small boat on the beach at Moelfre on the beautiful Isle of Anglesey.
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An invigorating early morning on the North Wales coast at Llandudno, with a combination of sunrise and an ebbing tide to enjoy.
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One of the more dramatic features on the North Wales coast is the Colwyn Bay offshore windfarm.
Love them or hate them, those turbines make for a great time lapse video!
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The North Wales coast is a great place for photography and time lapse, especially at times of extreme tidal range.
But on this particular evening earlier this month it took real dedication to stand over my camera for a couple of hours.
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A welcome change in the weather put some great high altitude clouds in the sky over the North Wales coast, so a visit to the West Shore at Llandudno to catch the sunset was a no-brainer.
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Cemaes Bay on the beautiful Isle of Anglesey is a place that my wife Liz and I have often visited, but for some reason I'd never filmed a time lapse video here.
So it was high time to put that right.
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Two seemingly identical time lapse videos showing a beautiful sunset over the North Wales coast as seen from Deganwy.
However, I consider one of them a failure.
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The hills, valleys and woodlands of the Clwydian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) are a wonderful sensory playground, especially at dawn when these two time lapse videos were captured.
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Two time lapse sequences featuring the moon today here at goHOWiE.com, both shot on the same beautiful spring early morning from Loggerheads Country Park overlooking the Clwydian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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One thing the North Wales coast has in extreme is tidal range, up to eight metres at certain times of the year.
A phenomenon I try and take full advantage of with both still and time lapse photography, such as these videos, shot at two different coastal locations just a few kilometres apart.
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A lovely spring evening on the North Wales coast, watching the sunset over the Irish Sea from the beach at Deganwy.
Where else would you want to be at a time like this?
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Well I wasn't expecting that!
A billowing layer of sea fog over the Mawddach estuary on welsh coast at Fairbourne put paid to our plans for an evening at the seaside.
But the view out over the estuary from Cregennan Lakes, high in the Snowdonia mountains, more than made up for the lack of beach!
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Connah's Quay at Deeside on the banks of the river Dee, North Wales, could be considered an industrial wasteland
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and lovely light at the start of the day helps too!
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