Trevaunance Cove..
Another photo from my trip to Trevallas last Friday. This was taken looking towards the beach at St Agnes. This is known as Trevaunance Cove. There are a couple of surfers in the water.. I think these guys must have anti-freeze, not blood, in their veins.
Type Trevaunance Cove into Google Earth and you get a real treat. The 3D on Google Earth just keeps getting better and better. If you don’t have Google Earth installed on your computer, you don’t know what you’re missing. It opens up (almost) the entire world to you and definitely my little corner of it.
Assuming you have Google Earth and you’ve typed Trevaunance Cove into the search box, head east around the cove and you can see my vantage point for this photo. That could almost be my little white car in the car park there.. 
50mm f/13 1/100 sec. ISO 100
Click to see the surfers..
Beautiful shot, Adrian. The sky is just amazing.
March 1, 2013 at 2:14 am
Thank you very much Sylvia!
March 1, 2013 at 8:07 am
Great shot of the sea and coast
February 26, 2013 at 5:36 pm
Thank you very much Lou! Always appreciate your comments.
February 26, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Ah, glad to ssee the smaller borders / bigger pictures back. and that I can click and see the big picture. Very nice. I also just moved to a no-sidebar format. but will take awhile to convert some of the photos to the changed resolution.
February 26, 2013 at 4:56 am
Thanks for your feedback. It’s difficult deciding how best to present the pictures but as my blog is all about the pictures, this seemed the way to go.
February 26, 2013 at 10:01 am
It does look cold, Adrian, but a breathtaking vista! I’m not sure I would be out in the water at this time!
Amazing light, as always.
February 23, 2013 at 6:42 pm
Thank you so much Karen. You wouldn’t get me in the water either at this time of year.. or even in the summer actually. I’d have to be somewhere where the water is much, much warmer, Florida or the Indian Ocean perhaps..
February 23, 2013 at 6:50 pm
a very beautiful picture, and the sky is convincing… though it looks as if the clouds were moving while you took the shot…
February 23, 2013 at 5:48 pm
Thank you very much Shimon. As is often the case here in Cornwall, it was blowing a gale so the clouds were moving very fast indeed.
February 23, 2013 at 5:55 pm
Wow! An amazing scenic Adrian! What a fantastic area you have to travel about in and you certainly take advantage and make the most of it!
February 23, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Thank you very much Phil. I really appreciate your comments. I’m certainly lucky to be living down here in the south-west that’s for sure.
February 23, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Wonderful capture! I love the mood!
February 23, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Thank you Jackie!
February 23, 2013 at 5:32 pm
A great location and, as already commented, super sky. I see this as your ‘trademark’ now, and it certainly works.
February 23, 2013 at 10:16 am
Thank you David. Appreciate it!
February 23, 2013 at 10:19 am
It’s a beautiful setting. Seascape photography would be rather dull without dramatic clouds! I prefer greyish weather, bad weather, stormy weather.
Have a lovely weekend, my friend.
February 23, 2013 at 8:45 am
Thank you. You too!
February 23, 2013 at 9:46 am
Great shot! The sky is just incredible.
February 23, 2013 at 3:16 am
Thank you Gracie!
February 23, 2013 at 6:42 am
What a dark and moody sky. Is it often like that or do you have a filter on your camera?
I wish I had seen more of Cornwall on my travels in the 70s, but following your blog brings it alive and much close to me ‘down under’.
February 22, 2013 at 11:50 pm
Thank you Victoria. Yes the sky is often like that but I sometimes use an ND filter to give the clouds more definition.
February 23, 2013 at 6:41 am
We have some crazies surfing in the most absurd weather out here, too. I still can’t get over how similar our locations are.
Whatever you do to them skies (I didn’t follow all the technical post-processing explanation), those skies are definitely your signature effect.
February 22, 2013 at 8:40 pm
They’re definitely not normal those surfer dudes..
February 23, 2013 at 6:42 am
Beautiful! Those clouds are very dramatic and speak loudly to what’s looming ahead.
Your photos are stunning! Do you do much post-processing with your photographs?
February 22, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Thank you. As a rule I expose to the right, pushing the exposure histogram on my camera as far to the right as possible to ensure I caputure as much tonal information as I can in the RAW file. The resulting images look awful on the camera monitor and when first viewed in Lightroom but when exposure, brightness and contrast are adjusted in post, or sometimes blended with an underexposed exposure, the image suffers less from the effects of noise and has smoother tonal transitions. The exposure blending using Photomatrix has the effect of enhancing the skies. The sensor on the D800 does an amazing job all in all. I sometimes add a graduated neutral density filter in post, again simply to enhance the impact of the dramatic skies we get a lot of in Cornwall.
February 22, 2013 at 7:17 pm
I wish I could pick up on all the technicalities you describe in your response to fergiemoto with as much ease as you, Adrian. I think you should start running YouTube tutorials.
A sensational view. I’m glad your car was nearby.
February 24, 2013 at 6:30 am
Thank you Marina. I think workshops are so useful in this respect. I’ve spent a lot of time reading and re-reading chapters in books, struggling to grasp the concept and when it clicks, I think ‘was it necessary to devote a whole chapter to this simple thing? Rather than demystifying the subject they mystify it.. An age old problem of describing how to do something practical.. So much easier to show. I haven’t looked for YouTube videos on camera techniques. I bet there are loads.. I will check them out.
February 24, 2013 at 8:38 am
I am absolutely amazed by this beauty!
February 22, 2013 at 6:40 pm
Thank you Ese!
February 22, 2013 at 6:57 pm
That greeny glacial sea look very Brrrr ChillB !
The cave looks worth a look …
February 22, 2013 at 6:26 pm
I wouldn’t want to dip my toe in Poppy. I think there’d be quite a lot of exploring to be done at low tide..
February 22, 2013 at 6:36 pm
Amazing composition.
February 22, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Thank you very much!
February 22, 2013 at 6:25 pm
Wow, simply amazing!!!
February 22, 2013 at 5:10 pm
Thank you Rexlin!
February 22, 2013 at 6:25 pm
Pfff, surfing in this weather!
Great picture, I love the colours and the dramatic sky!
February 22, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Certainly wouldn’t be my idea of fun.. Thanks for you comment!
February 22, 2013 at 5:06 pm
[ Smiles ] An excellent view!
February 22, 2013 at 4:57 pm
Thank you!
February 22, 2013 at 5:06 pm