Homeward bound

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PHOTO
The wood-built fishing boat, "Helen Mona", constructed in Denmark in 1973, showing a Ballantrae (Scotland) identification code, but fishing out of Fleetwood, Lancashire, rides the tide up the Wyre Channel in the evening sunlight, heading for its berth, followed by some optimistic gulls.

QUOTO
"In the morning be first up, and in the evening the last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish."
English proverb

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Focal Length: Zoom at 176mm (35mm equiv.)
F No: f8
Shutter Speed: 1/400
ISO: 200
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photograph (c) T. Boughen

Sails on the sea

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PHOTO
At sunset a ferry sailing out of the port of Heysham, Lancashire, passes the Cirrus Array wind farm on the Shell Flat, 4.25 miles (7 km) off the Fylde coast.

QUOTO
"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet

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Mode: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: Zoom @ 282mm (35mm equiv.)
F No: f6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/1600
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -1.0EV

photograph (c) T. Boughen