Artwork description:

This rock arch is called ‘Song of the sea’ or Zawn Pyg in Cornish. It’s at a secluded beach called Nanjizal, just to the East of Land’s End. Access is by foot only, via the South West Coast path or footpaths over fields. It’s a feature of one of my children and my favourite walks.
I’ve wanted to shoot at this beach in winter for several years. This is when the sun sets in the middle of the bay. Patience paid off and eventually I got conditions that I’d waited for, sunset coinciding with low tide and no heavy cloud bank out to sea.
Keeping a watchful eye on the sun, I made a series of other images on other parts of the beach. When the sun was sufficiently low, I headed over to the left side of the beach to shoot this. It soon became apparent that it was best to exclude the sky above the arch.
If you look in the bottom right hand corner, the silhouette of the reflected rock against the skyline seems to form the profile of a face. The singer perhaps?
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Materials used:

Giclee print using Canon Lucia Pro Pigment inks on Heavyweight Fine Art matte paper

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