Seaweed

This mop of seaweed across one of the wooden posts to which the groynes are afixed looked like it would make a good picture. So I photographed it.

It was certainly easier to photograph than the things I took pictures of today..

I’ve got a few days off work and, as I should have expected, the weather was not great – lots of thick cloud, although at least with plenty of structure to it, which is better than a grey slab of blank overcast nothingness. It was also pretty windy – something I didn’t realise until I got to the location I was visiting. The wind wasn’t heavy, and for most cameras, would have been no problem at all. But I was shooting 4×5 large format.

I only made four pictures at the planned location – it was just too frustrating trying to keep the dark cloth (an old t-shirt in my case) from flapping about like a sail on ship in a typhoon! In the end I retreated to a second location – one not as exposed to the elements – where I was able to shoot another five sheets of film. I haven’t had chance to develop any of them yet, but hopefully I’ll have something to show soon.

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°

Taken 17 June 2023.