Warning: this photo should only be viewed full screen! (Click on the image to make it bigger.) This amazing image was taken by Hayle-based master thatcher and photographer Sam Carnell. It captures the unreceptive cliffs at Botallack getting an extreme battering in the storms of 2008.
Sam entered it in the Lloyds TSB Insurance Weather Photographer of the Year competition, along with 10,000 others hopefuls, and made the final twelve. I couldn’t help wondering what conditions the valiant photographer was working in to get that shot: ‘That day the wind was gusting at around 100mph at exposed spots,’ he told p&c, ‘and the sea had over thirty foot of swell, so not the most pleasant of conditions. But worth it!!”
Reckon so – very cool.
Check out more of Sam’s shots at www.samcarnell.co.uk.
ismay atkins
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December 22, 2010 at 3:48 pm
ismay atkins
it’s amazing, isn’t it? thanks for the retweets! -p&c.
December 22, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Gary Kennon
BRILLIANT photograph (& I don’t care if I am SHOUTING :-) One of the best photographs I have ever seen! Glorious! have retweeted, the reetweeted retweet of this!