Bamburgh Castle, Blue Hour

Deep blue hour, the sky running from indigo down to a hot band of amber, and the castle in full silhouette with a scatter of lights glowing along its walls. Glass-smooth sand repeats the gradient in soft bands across the foreground. The darkest, stillest print of the set.

Bamburgh Castle is one of the great sights of the Northumberland coast, a Norman fortress standing on a basalt crag above miles of open sand and the North Sea. A stronghold since Anglo-Saxon times and rebuilt over nine centuries, it was restored by the industrialist Lord Armstrong and remains lived in today. Few buildings in England sit in a more photogenic landscape.