The sun sets on Alonso’s F1 career
Given the location of the Yas Marina circuit, we know there is always a decent sunset shot when shooting west from Turn 14 after the second chicane.
But if you’ve ever watched the sun dip below the horizon you know that it’s very quickly gone. There is only a few minutes to capture the moment.
A lot of photographers were standing at this spot, so I was conscious of trying to do something different. I started by shooting the track wide, then went in for a tighter angle.
Given the lack of time to nail a decent sunset picture we were lucky that Alonso was on track, giving the headline writers the chance to say the sun had come down on his F1 career.