Pastiche, The Re-Shoot

So today was my day to reshoot my Pastiche,

I was up at 0500 and made my way to the Seven
Sisters Country Park, I arrived there a little before 8am after an hour and a half or so drive but I still had a 3km walk to get to where I needed to be, at the beach.
so after walking into head winds with my camera and tripod strapped to my back, I finally made it, but was confronted with small to large streams of water what looked like was still going out to sea but with strong currents, so after a little while of deciding what to do, I had two choices, go to the left and photograph the white cliffs and base my pastiche on that, or attempt to cross the water. I opted for the latter and cautiously climbed onto the wooden beams that ran over the flow of water slowly crawled across to the other side, but I still had about half a mile to go to get to the right spot!
All the while I was constantly checking the tide as at this point I would be cut off if I spent too long making my images. so I finally got to the place and set up my camera and equipment. with the light disappearing in behind the clouds I waited patiently for the sun to come back out, took a reading using my light meter and then made my exposure.

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I have been constantly checking the weather and tide times so that I can get the right time and weather for my pastiche.

It stated that the wind would be moderate to light when I checked before I left but upon arrival and walking towards the beach it was about 30mph winds which proved tricking in keeping my tripod stable whilst making my exposure.

Health and Safety

I wanted to go with someone as it was a dangerous place to be and I had no signal on my phone which would have proved very bad if something where to happen.

When I was making my exposures I could hear small rocks and debris from the banks and cliffs above falling down beside me, this not helped by the strong winds.

There was one main thing that I was very cautious about as aforementioned and that was the tides, I checked and checked again that the tide was out and on its turn so it was coming in from the time I was there onwards, giving me a decent amount of time.

if the worst case was to happen I made sure that I could get out before I attempted to cross to wooden barriers although this would have involved a long walk and even then the possibility of not being able to get to my car but, far safer than being stranded by the sea.

You can see from the image above that the tide is in but whilst i was there the tributary was a lot narrower than that in the image above, but I had to climb along 30ft of the wooden breakers I think they are known as.