St Annes Beach stretches wide along the Fylde Coast, the sands running south from the pier towards the dunes. At sunset the light changes quickly — the sky shifts through orange and pink while the wet sand reflects colour back from below, and the wide beach gives walkers and silhouettes a scale that tighter shorelines cannot match.
These drone images were taken in the early evening, hovering above the beach to capture the scale of the space and the figures moving through it. The Fylde Coast has a particular quality at this time of day — it is never frantic, and in summer the evening light rewards patience.
St Annes is one of the locations I return to regularly, both as somewhere to walk and somewhere to photograph. The beach and the estuary offer different conditions each time.
For more coastal photography from Lancashire and Scotland, visit the Places gallery.
