Martyn Dunbar braved the elements at Seaham Harbour in County Durham to shoot turbulent conditions caused by Storm Darragh but it was only when he got home to review his pictures that he saw the otherworldly sight
If it wasn’t bad enough having a storm to deal with last weekend, we now know we also had to deal with a giant “sea monster” leaping out of the ocean.
Thankfully, this terrifying beast was no more than waves forming an interesting shape (we hope). Martyn Dunbar braved the elements at Seaham Harbour in County Durham to shoot turbulent conditions caused by the storm.
But it was only when he got home to review his pictures that he saw the otherworldly sight.
Martyn, 51, said: “After walking down to the beach at Seaham Harbour, and tucking myself in behind a rock to shelter from the storm, I started to take handheld images with my Nikon 4 and sigma sport 150-600mm.
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“I spent half a hour capturing various images of the waves breaking next to the lighthouse. The conditions were absolutely dreadful.
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“When I got them home and loaded them into Lightroom I adjusted the lights and shadows and denoised the image in DXO.
“I couldn’t believe the shape of the image I captured, it looked like a sea monster.”
An online comment about the image read “sure does look like a dragon”.
Storm Dawagh battered Brits with winds of over 100mph over the weekend.
So far, two people are confirmed to have lost their lives in the storm.
One who was in his 40s and died after a tree fell onto his Citroen van on the A59 in Longton, Lancashire, on Saturday. The other man died at about 3pm when a tree fell on his car in Erdington, Birmingham.
A bus driver was taken to hospital after his Translink airport express bus left the road and hit a wall near Antrim in Northern Ireland.
There were gusts of nearly 100mph in some parts of the country on Saturday and more than a quarter of a million people were left without power in the west of England and Wales.
By 7pm on Sunday, 94% of homes that had suffered power outages had been reconnected the Energy Networks Association said, leaving 118,000 people without power.
The rail network was blighted by delays and cancellations, with Southeastern and Thameslink services particularly badly affected and all lines closed between Wolverhampton and Stafford due to a tree blocking the line.
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