We are especially sensitive to light and weather. In the past our survival depended on how well we could read these signs and our emotional response to a particular place varies with changing light and atmosphere – under cloud or caught by the morning sun.

Friends Anne and Peter’s cliff top house close to the Lizard in Cornwall offers a rare opportunity to capture a daily drama of shifting light and atmosphere, never exactly re-enacted but with an underlying rhythmic consistency driven by diurnal wind and weather patterns.

On a hazy spring day, the sheer intensity of light coupled with the mild fear that comes when you are perched 200 feet above rock and tide, give this place a very special, raw, mesmeric quality.

This sequence of thirty-five images was shot between 9:50am and 10:07am on the 9th of April 2011: a few magic moments as a band of dappled cloud drifted towards the shore and sunlight danced on the water…