Cliff Top Dusk, Pennington Bay, Kangaroo Island.
The sky half promised a colourful sunset so I set off to a location that I had scouted a few days before. I plan my shoots with the happy understanding that they will not go completely (or at all) to plan. It’s one of the reasons I love the whole process of photography.
So, this plan did not happen as planned. If it had, the photograph here would have had an outrageous, vibrant canopy of clouds. Instead, there was just a faint smudge of pink to my left well after the sun had settled below the horizon.
Waiting in such a vista is not so hard to take and I had an optimistic feeling that the light might still get interesting. I just hoped it would be soon because I was not looking forward to walking back along the cliff top in the dark.
Luckily, the light arrived in the form of a faint reflection that softly lit parts of the red cliffs before me. Long enough for me to make six frames at 10 seconds each for stitching into what you see here.
Thankfully, the batteries in my headlamp were good and the walk back on an unusually warm and windless evening was without any catastrophic stumbles :-)
‘Kangaroo Island is pretty easy to reach by either ferry or plane. Even so, it still feels and is remote.
Renown for its clean air, unique wildlife and amazing landscapes it faces pressure from its own popularity. The rush to establish facilities in the island's National Parks threatens the remoteness that attracts so many.
This picture is from a series I made at Pennington Bay. Rugged beaches, hemmed in by stoney cliffs, face towards Antarctica. From this place there is no land until the great white continent in the south.’
