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January 8, 2014updated 23 Jan 2014 5:10pm

Experience and ‘extremely long lens’ helped PA photographer make front page splashes with wave pics

By Emma McGarthy

Press Association photographer Ben Birchall used his experience over six years of visiting Porthcawl harbour in South Wales to capture dramatic storm images which made front pages of The Independent, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph yesterday.

The Bristol-based photographer of 15 years captured the images of waves towering over the silhouettes of people on the Porthcawl harbour wall to illustrate the extreme weather Britain has been facing.

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