Image Location : The full moon rising over Brittany Ferries ‘Bretagne’ and 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 station operates two lifeboats. 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 just after sunset using a Panasonic Lumix GX8 with a Sigma Contemporary 150-600mm f/4.5-5.6 set to 165mm (equivalent to 330mm on full frame camera). The camera was on a monopod and using autofocus on the station. The camera was set to Aperture Priority f/8 giving a 1/8th of a second exposure at ISO 800 with daylight white balance. I used the Kipon EF-MFT-AF that allows me to use Canon EF lenses on the Panasonic camera. It retains full AF and IS (if the lens has it). Mine works really well but it would not be fast enough for flying birds.
The RAW processing and final adjustments were all done in Photoshop CC.

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