Longships lighthouse

Peter Tonkin and I arrived at Lands End as the sun came up this morning,  We were there looking for pictures of the Longships Lighthouse as a storm passed through at high tide,  The Longships are around a mile and a half offshore from Lands End the most westerly point in England  { As shown in the image below } They take quite a bashing from incoming Atlantic storms and high seas and can create dramatic storm images such as the one posted above,

The weather forecast had suggested that we might get a clear patch in the storm clouds between Eight and Ten Am but breaks in the cloud for the sun to shine through were few and far between so even though we had the wind and waves  to create many pictures like the second one below they lack the colour, contrast and impact that the morning sunshine can bring to the Longships.

At around 9.30am a break in the cloud gave us ten minutes of unbroken sunshine before the wind gusted strongly bringing with it horizontal rain and rainbows but ten minutes of sunshine had been long enough for us to capture images like the Lead in image and the one below,