Image Location : the image was captured from Headon Warren which is located at the westernmost end of the Isle of Wight.

About 5,000 years ago trees on the Warren were cleared to provide grazing for cattle and sheep, leaving acid heathland which is now a small but important site for heather on the Island. There was a warren here in the 15th century when rabbits were farmed for their fur and food. Today's rabbits keep the turf short and prevent the heath reverting to woodland. Today most of the land is owned and managed by the National Trust.

You can also see The Needles Lighthouse which was first built in 1785, high up on the Needles Headland, but its light was all too often shrouded in mist. The present-day lighthouse, a granite tower with a girth of 109ft (33m), was constructed in 1859 on the outermost stack with 3ft thick walls at its base. The last lighthouse keeper left in 1994 when the lighthouse was fully automated.

This image was captured just before sunset using a Panasonic Lumix GX8 with a Lumix G Vario 12-35mm F/2.8 lens set to 35mm (equivalent to 70mm on a full frame camera). The camera was hand held using autofocus on the foreground. The camera was set to Aperture Priority f/8 giving a 1/40th 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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