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Images of the South West
Godbeams (crepuscular rays) appearing as the sun sets behind the ridge that separates the canal from the sea at Bude Canal in North Cornwall.

Godbeams, Bude Canal

The sun is pretty low in the sky at this time of the year and there is not a lot of light on one of our favourite local walks along the old Bude Canal. Out beyond the area of the old wharfs the canal runs between the marshes (a nature reserve) and fields coming down from the ridge that separates the canal from the sea.

Bude Marshes (a nature reserve) and Canal are a great location for overwintering birds, especially the huge flocks of lapwings that congregate here, and we have also seen an otter twice along this stretch.

I had been trying to photograph these lapwings hence the high ISO settings (800) and forgot to reset them when I shot this picture (hence the noise mentioned in the image details section below).

Here the sun is about to drop behind that ridge in the mid afternoon and as is so common along our west facing coastline godbeams (crepuscular rays) have appeared. I can never resist getting the camera out when godbeams appear; “they’re such an inspiring sight” said a gentleman who was walking past as I took the shot.

 

1 Comment

  1. matt

    Lovely, lovely lines in this. Really like the water in the foreground, the light from it, the monochrome and of course the beams. Love beams 🙂 Very nice photograph.

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