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The notorious cliché "footprints in the sand" shot!

The notorious cliché "footprints in the sand" shot!

On my way home the sky was full of beautiful mottled patches of cloud, but by the time I got to the beach, they had evaporated, leaving a rather boring sunset -...
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On my way home the sky was full of beautiful mottled patches of cloud, but by the time I got to the beach, they had evaporated, leaving a rather boring sunset - so I had to do something to try to make the shot interesting!
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NIKON D7100

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Aperture 13/1 ISO 500 Shutter 1/400 Focal Length 180/10

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Aug, 2016

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This is beautiful. Great picture!

Thanks Ryan! It's pretty funny actually, you can see where I started to turn around - the footprints go skew!

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