Image Location : captured from Fort Victoria Country Park on the Isle of Wight.

It shows the sun setting behind the lighthouse keeper’s cottage at Hurst Point Lighthouse in Hampshire – the county directly across the Solent on the mainland, affectionately referred to as the ‘North Island’ by the locals. Hurst Point Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1867 to guide vessels through the hazardous western approaches to the Solent. The structure is 26 meters high.

This image was captured at sunset about 8.00 pm, using a hand-held Panasonic Lumix GH5 camera with a Leica DG 100 - 400mm F/4.0-6.3 lens set to 400mm (equivalent to 800mm on a full frame camera). The lens was focused on the lighthouse and the camera was set to aperture priority f/8 giving a 1/320th of a second exposure at ISO 200 with daylight white balance. The RAW processing and final adjustments were all done in Photoshop CC.