After a quite a long gap, mainly due to weather, tide and work not suitably combining - I have finally been out on the beach for a sunrise. I chose to venture towards Rustington , along the seafront heading East from home. As the sunrise was due just ahead of low tide, there was plenty of wet sand to reflect the pre-sunrise colours and several patches of interesting sand patterns left by that receding tide. Out on the beach, it was a little breezy and very cold but I could se

Two weeks after moving into a seafront flat in Littlehampton, I finally caught the opportunity to photograph the sunrise. A hurried get-up and rush across to the beach was followed by rapidly working out where to start to take the photos. The pre sunrise colours had already started and the potential was obvious and exciting. The tide was out and that had left patterns in the wet sand, while the colours were reflecting in that wet sand and starting to light up the cloudless ho