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I scrambled out onto the rocks at Santa Cruz in Portugal taking photos of various views and then climbed up to a rock platform where I was greeted with this view in front of me. I had an ND filter, but no proper tripod, only a small “plate tripod” that just about did its job of stabilising the camera for 5 seconds. It was a difficult job finding a flat surface to place it on in this area!

The Atlantic had gone from a churning, hissing mess to this smeared, milky surface that looks almost solid. The cliffs on the left held steady, of course, all those layers of ochre and rust glowing
under a flat, hazy sky that refused to commit to either bright or grey.

A figure perched on the rock just below me, completely oblivious, which was a small bonus as it gives you a sense of just how big these cliffs really are. Santa Cruz was quiet on this late April afternoon but the sea was anything but that, so a glacial shutter speed was called for.

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