Looking at the weather forecast yesterday, it looked horrible with a forecast of rain most of the day! 

So much of photography is dependent on the weather conditions, sometimes terrible weather can bring an excellent image but when it’s forecast for grey sky, you fear the worst. 

Anyway, knowing all this, I decided to go out anyway as there was a small window of hope, just about sunrise when the rain would stop. I travelled up the east coast of fife (the East Neuk)  to the village of Elie. Its a beautiful little village with glorious beaches. It also has a very scenic lighthouse which I was aiming to photograph. I already have a shot of this in my portfolio but wanted to capture something different. 

I arrived well before sunrise as I wanted to capture the lighthouse shining in the night sky! It seems to be a habit over the last week or so but again, I was shooting at 70mm using my 24-70 lens at F8 to give me the sharpest image. The focal point was around the middle of the photograph, near the centre rock for maximum DOF, no need for filters on this one as shooting well before the sun came up!