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It is "De Rigueur" for serious landscape photographers on location to get up before dawn, having previously scouted the location, so as to arrive before sunrise. It is also a pre-requisite of being serious about your landscape photography to be set up an hour or so before sunset and then snap away until total darkness descends. As we all know these are the “golden hours”. What if that is just not possible? Sometimes circumstances intrude, family commitments, physical disabilities, and if the location is privately controlled – opening times. Near where I live on the English coast in Suffolk is a world-class nature preserve and a former secret military site called Orfordness.
Orfordness lighthouse and abandoned coast guard station
Now owned mostly by the British National Trust access is strictly limited to a few Saturdays in the spring and autumn and Tuesday to Saturday in the high summer months. You can arrive at 10 am and must leave by 4 pm – hardly the “golden hours”. I...

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David Watson
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I have been a photographer from the age of 18 when I blew my student grant on my first camera - a used Zeiss Super-Ikonta.  I am an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS) and I won this award with a panel of photographs documenting the effects of global warming on the glaciers in Southern New Zealand.  My semi-professional activities have been limited to photography associated with my business interests and some portraiture. This included the still photography for my wife’s television series - Country House Rescue shown on the UK’s Channel 4. A few years ago I was given a solo show at the Aldeburgh Foundation featuring my photography of the wartime relics in Suffolk.  Finally, many of my photographs are to be found in private homes and hotels owned by the Devere Group.
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