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Is anyone able to give me a little help......

I'm wanting to head up to bamburgh castle tomorrow morning for the sunrise, and i know theres been a few photos posted on here already.

i wondered where the best place to shoot from is as ive not been up there in the car before? ive looked on google maps and theres a road that forks off to the north of the castle up the coast line, just wondered if anyone had any ideas?

I'll probably be up there an hour or so before sunrise anyway to get set up but if anyones been up recently then some advice would be appreciated!

looks like a lot of people shoot from the rocks at the north end of the beach?

If the sunrise is anything like this mornings then itll be an absolute treat!

Cheers Folks

Nick
 
Hi Nick, I think the best place to be is to take a road called the Wynding. it leads up to the golf course and there is couple of spots to park your car. From there you can walk down a bank and onto the beach, and when I was last there, I found it the best spot to shoot from. Depending on the tide there are some exposed rock faces and some decent elements for foreground interest.
Heading here gives you this view of the castle.

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Anything south of the castle and you need to shoot from in the dunes to get a shot, which I don't find as photogenic.

I was considering a drive to the Northumberland coast tomorrow morning, but it's a bit too far to get back in time to take my better half to work

Hope that info helps mate

Matty
 
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Hi Nick,

I'd suggest you take the left turn signposted for the golf course I think (The Wynding) as you come through Bamburgh from the A1 before you reach the castle. Follow this road past the buildings and signs for car parks and you'll find a small lay=by on your right. If you go to The Photographer's Ephemera (or Google maps) and zoom in, you'll see this just before a longer lay by. From here you can easily walk just a few yards down to the beach/rocks.

Good luck!
 
Aah nice one mate.

I'd been looking on Google maps and the wynding looked like it was gonna be the place to go with the rocks etc.

Cool shot thats the sort of comp I'm looking at.

I think the tide will still be pretty high at Sunrise tomorrow so might struggle getting the rocks but we'll see what happens. Might break out the welding glass depending on how light it is lol

Thanks again mate :)
 
nickjohnwatson said:
Aah nice one mate.

I'd been looking on Google maps and the wynding looked like it was gonna be the place to go with the rocks etc.

Cool shot thats the sort of comp I'm looking at.

I think the tide will still be pretty high at Sunrise tomorrow so might struggle getting the rocks but we'll see what happens. Might break out the welding glass depending on how light it is lol

Thanks again mate :)
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No problem, looks forward to seeing your shots!

Matty
 
I'm off to Northumbria for a week's holiday in a fortnight.....can't wait to visit these locations :)
 
Steve said:
I'm off to Northumbria for a week's holiday in a fortnight.....can't wait to visit these locations :)
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If you have a car, Northumberland is a fantastic place as you have the UK's best coastline, many castles, fantastic fishing villages like Craster, the Farnes and Lindisfarne, hills around Cheviot and the largest Georgian area outside London in Newcastle's Grainger Town.

If on public transport, you can see a lot, but some out of the way places are less accessible.
 
I thought it might be like that. Sorry to hear about your fruitless trip. I didn't bother doing sunrise today, but went up to alnmouth for lunch and it had burned off by then. The whole north east was a bit rubbish this morning. There was blue in the dales but everything east of that was rubbish.
We all have days like that though, don't let it deter you!!
 
st599 said:
If you have a car, Northumberland is a fantastic place as you have the UK's best coastline, many castles, fantastic fishing villages like Craster, the Farnes and Lindisfarne, hills around Cheviot and the largest Georgian area outside London in Newcastle's Grainger Town.

If on public transport, you can see a lot, but some out of the way places are less accessible.
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I've got a car for the week, and stacks of film so looking forward to it excitedly
 
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