Bamburgh Castle Rock Pools

Taken low on the whinstone ledges at the north end of the beach, where the rock pools catch the dawn sky and hand it back in miniature. The castle sits small and distant beneath the gold, with a lone figure on the sands for scale. Portrait format, led by its foreground.

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.