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JO-ANNE DUFFETT

Canon EOS 70D Tokina 11 – 16 mm lens

JO-ANNE WRITES: We took a road trip from Cape Town to Durban to visit family. I wanted a photo of the Whalebone Pier at Umhlanga, but I was distracted by these rocks instead and decided I should return at sunrise. I couldn’t convince anyone to join me at 4.30 am so I went alone – fortunately there were a few other photographers and runners about.

I used a graduated neutral density filter to cut out some of the sunlight, since my exposure was 10 seconds at ISO 100. My lens aperture was f9.5 and yes, I took a soaking from a stray wave…

TOAST SAYS: Subtlety can be a landscape photographer’s most powerful tool. The slower you work, the more attuned you become to the subtleties around you. These are the less obvious things, like a jumble of rocks that other people walk past