It’s exciting to shoot images in rare locations. We received special permission to photograph here, at the time it was being transformed into a World Monument Heritage site. This overlooked the international slave traders landing point. Just below this overhang and to the right there was stairs carved into a tunnel that would take them off the boat.
It’s now called the Bahamas Clifton Heritage National Park.
The hostile winter ocean had carved up the cliff’s rock ledge, leaving razor edged groves that could easily sliced the unwary. It took Ashley some cautious time to get carefully positioned.
We created this early morning, but the cloudless August sky created strong dark shadows. In the image processing I pushed the lighting characteristics towards the deeper tonality seen in the final image. The aperture was as shallow as the lens could give, F4. I wanted the ocean to feel far away but full and vast. In processing I worked the image tones to further push drama of the moment.
