"Home is..." Sea and Quarries

A rather action-packed day today for the project.  We started out at 5am, ending up down on the beach at Black Rock, in Porthmadog just as the sun was getting to a decent height… or would have been, had last nights weather front not been hanging around.  The lighting wasn’t quite what we wanted, but given that this is Wales and this might be the only dry morning we get here, we chose to shoot anyway.  Lots of tip-toeing around to avoid waking people up too much on the nearby campsite.

One advantage of this location is that you’re not allowed to walk dogs on this beach (less dog mess to worry about treading in, less likelihood of people wandering round in the early hours of the morning getting in the shot or just standing immediately behind you glowering).  There was still the odd random person about, but it felt more relaxed than the shoot at the same location we did last year when we were doing the concept shots.  Pleasingly, the one random council employee who was driving around barely glanced at us when he passed.

The set up was based off one we did last year, having the chair in amongst a load of beach tat, which added extra props to be carried over to the location. 

With the sun annoyingly coming out just after we’d left, we took the opportunity to do some more recce pics, finding (with the assistance of my parents who know the area rather better, and who are staying up in Wales for a bit on their hols) the derelict slate mill we couldn’t find on Thursday.  Whilst on the same road, we ended up at another location we’d done in the past, Llyn Cwm Stradlyn.

We reckoned we could get three good shots in this area, so around sunset, we returned with the props, and extra people to model, and managed to get 4 decent shots done in a couple of hours.

Saturday is forecast to rain heavily again, so we’ll see if we manage to get some more shots done or not…