An Audience with The King - a photo on Flickriver

Godrevy Point & Lighthouse, Cornwall

When you have an audience with 'The King of Godrevy' you set off with some trepidation! I'd arranged to meet up with fellow Togger and Flickrite Dom Haughton during my recent visit to Cornwall.

"Where do you want to meet up?" he kindly WhatsApped the interloper from the foreign land of Hampshire. Well I thought for a few seconds and replied with a certain level of deviousness..."How about Godrevy?" Why devious? Well a number of places in Cornwall are easier to find compositions and knowing Dom lives and breathes Godrevy I thought I could try to pick his brains. It helped that Godrevy was about 20mins from where I was staying so had that going for it too.

I was advised to look out for some sort of Red Renault van in the field car park so once I'd found a parking spot and gone back for my wellies (my memory!!) I headed off trying to find the preverbally needle in a haystack. Low and behold tucked into the far corner I see a red shoe box with a couple of people relaxing and obviously waiting for someone. A distant hand goes up and with trepidation I go for my audience with His Majesty!

As you can read from Dom's post www.flickr.com/photos/126574513@N04/53186344022/in/feed-1... we had ideas of scouting out numerous locations but ended up 'on the rocks' and I have no idea where the time went! I certainly appreciated the guidance on good spots to shoot from in-between all the comments on how jealous he was of my upcoming 5 day Iceland trip when his most recent one seemed to be around 3 weeks if I recall correctly.

I thanked him for his pasty advice and I can recommend 'Ann's Pasties' from the little retail park on the outskirts of Helston if you are in the area. (If you are reading this Ann....."get in touch" as a certain YouTuber is prone to say!)

We never got any epic skies that evening and one of the compositions I wanted I just couldn't get at because another Tog was already set up for the night but this was one of the main compositions I shot whilst playing with shutter speeds. The above is a 3 image time-lapse composite. Two images for the main scene and a third to show 'The King' in position and surveying his kingdom.

Thanks again Dom, I had a great afternoon of shooting and chatting.

© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.

Taken in: UK / England / Gwinear-Gwithian / Gwithian (show map)

Taken on: September 4, 2023

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Camera: Canon EOS R5, f/16.0, 1.3 sec, 39mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS R5
Lens:	RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
Aperture:	f/16.0
Exposure Time:	1.3
Focal Length:	39mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Exposure Program:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	Adobe RGB
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