The last days we have had some amazing sunsets. Dark blue clouds were spread out over the peninsula where I live and there was a big line of red light at the horizon. The scene was spectacular but I wasn’t able to photograph it as I was having parties all the time. We are having holidays and a lot of my friends parents are on a holiday, so almost every night I end up chilling with friends.
But this evening I decided to go out shooting before I went to a party. The fog in the sky that had brought the nice red light of the previous evenings had rained down in the past day, but nevertheless I went out, not sure it was going to be great. The sky didn’t get red unfortunately.

Location
I decided to go to the boulevard of Vlissingen as it’s not too far from my home. Sometimes I really want to have some rocks on the beach but we hardly have them where I live. But at the moment they are reinforcing the dykes. So there are stones on the beach everywhere.

I really love seeing how the dyke gets reinforced and how dredging-ships are dumping their sand in front of the coast to decrease the wave intensity. I was hoping the ships would go ‘rainbowing’ too, but unfortunately they didn’t. I am going to start my bachelor Civil Engineering this summer which is all about dredging and dyke-engineering.

Photo
The sun had almost set and it was getting darker and darker. I wanted to capture the movement of the sea so I had really open my aperture. In the composition I wanted the perfect balance between blurred lines and washing water. It took me a couple of frames to get it the way I wanted.

In Lightroom I darkened the sky with almost 1 stop and I increased the contrast slightly.

Metadata
Nikon D60
Sigma 10-20mm @10mm
0,6 sec
f/4,5
ISO 100
Circular Polarizer
Velbon Sherpa 600R