Image location : The 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 to the shore by means of a gangway. 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 using a Panasonic Lumix G7 with a LUMIX G VARIO 7-14mm F/4.0 lens set to 10mm (equivalent to 20mm on full frame camera). The camera was hand held and I used autofocus on the rock pool. The camera was set to Aperture Priority f/8.0 giving a 1/50th 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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