Aerial view of the Cape Town coastline
Collection · Capture

Coast

Light, landscape and the sea, across two coastlines.

01Two coastlines, one light

Cornwall and the Eastern Cape share a coastline in name only. The light doesn’t know that.

Cold Atlantic grey and warm South African gold end up saying the same thing, if you wait for the right ten minutes. This collection isn’t organised by place. It’s organised by the thing that made us stop the car.

the tide doesn’t wait for a shot list

A lighthouse on the cliffside at sunset, waves breaking on the rocks below
The sun setting low over the sea, breaking through a band of cloud
A group running down the beach toward the sea for a swim
A group gathered on the beach at sunset
Sunset over rolling hills and the sea
02What we're actually after

Not the postcard version. The ten minutes either side of it, before the light is right, and just after it stops being right, when everyone else has already put the camera away.

Aerial view of shoreline where sand meets sea
Coast · where the sand runs out

Every coast collection starts the same way: get there before anyone else is awake, and stay until well after they’ve gone home.

An oystercatcher standing on lichen-covered rocks above the sea

Related · the same coastline, told as a story

Walking Cornwall

Story · 11 miles, solo

Coastal light doesn’t wait for a shot list. If your place deserves the same attention, let’s talk.