Location : RNLI Bembridge Lifeboat Station on the Isle of Wight. A lifeboat station has been based in Bembridge since 1867 and it is located on the eastern approaches to the Solent Estuary. The station is on one of the busiest shipping lanes in United Kingdom waters, used by over 100,000 commercial ships per annum.

The main boathouse stands away from the shore on a piled platform with slipway, and is linked by means of a gangway. The station operates two lifeboats. The All-weather lifeboat is a Tamar-class and is called RNLB Alfred Albert Williams and has been at the station since 2010. The second lifeboat is an Inshore lifeboat and is a D-class and is called RNLB Dorothy Beatrice May Gorma.

The boathouse is open to the general public most days and gives visitors the opportunity of viewing the boat in one of the most up to date facilities that the RNLI has built.

This image was captured at dawn shortly before sunrise using a Panasonic Lumix G7 with a Lumix G Vario 35-100 f/2.8 lens set to 66mm (equivalent to 132mm on full frame camera). The camera was on a tripod and I used autofocus on the Lifeboat Station. The camera was set to Aperture priority f/4.0 giving a 1/13th of a second exposure at ISO 200 with daylight white balance. The RAW processing and final adjustments were all done in Photoshop CC.

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