St Mary's Lighthouse looking south from from Blyth beach
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Removed seagulls around lighthouse as they appeared as black dots
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Compositionally this is fascinating. Ignore the foreground elements, and the composition is basically symmetrical, centered subject and centered horizon. But it's really two sub-compositions, with the land/sea horizontally striated into thirds and the sky/lighthouse a bottom-weighted rectangle with the lighthouse centered horizontally. What makes the composition work, in the end, is the lighter clouds at the top, and usually that's a no-no, with images working best with the top darkened to contain the eye and redirect it into the center. But in this case the eye would stop dead at the lighthouse without the luminosity at the top, which causes us to swoop up, as it were.
Probably more than youw anted to hear :-) My only real complaint here is the purplish cast to the sky, which seems a little overdone, but it's not a big deal. Very strong image.
Nice depth layers, posts, colors, clouds, and capture of the waves apparently blown by the wind. Interesting, and I like it. Less central lighthouse would be better.
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