I’ve got three beach scenes to publish today. All taken at Bridlington.
The weather at the time was calm and there was a layer of high thin cloud as well as a fine sea-mist that threw the horizon into a dim line. There’s a sense of calmness to some of the shots, I think.
Curiously, some of the figures on the beach have an oddly faded look to them, like they are not fully there. I’m not sure of the cause, but wonder if the orange filter I was using might be the culprit?
Following on from yesterday’s pictures of the Bridlington lifeguard station, here’s one of their paddleboards on the beach, ready for them to take action should someone be in distress.
The sand was wet from the receding tide and so cast nice reflections. The four people walking into shot made the picture. It breaks the “rule of odds” (not that I take such rules all that seriously), but the flag kinda makes five, I think.
Another day, another day out – this time to the Great British Food Festival with my wife. The event was hels at Hardwick Hall, an English Heritage managed property, although the festival itself is taking place in the fields at the rear of the property, so I didn’t get to explore the house.
I was going to take my Bronica ETRSi with me, partly because I still have a partly used roll of film in one of the backs, and also because I took position of a 150mm lens for the camera yesterday (sadly too late for my trip to Skegness) and wanted to try it out.
In the end, as this was a day out with my better half, not a photography trip, I opted to take something lighter and chucked my Nikon F80 in a bag along with a roll of Kodak Gold. I didn’t take that many photos – around ten – and will probably put them all together in a post here when I’ve finished the rest of the roll.
In the meantime, here are some more pictures from the Bridlington trip back in June. These continue an irregular set of images I’ve taken of lifeguard huts on various trips to the seaside (I photographed another one at Skegness yesterday – maybe there’s a zine in this somewhere…).
I took a trip to the seaside today – Skegness in Lincolnshire. I’m extremely tired after mooching around taking pictures plus driving the 160 mile round trip and so this will be a short post.
By complete coincindence, today marks the start of a series of pictures from my first seaside trip of the year back in June, when I visited Bridlingtom with my wife.
A mere stones throw from one another, here are Cemetery Road Baptist Church and Lansdowne Chapel.
I’ve noticed that, in certain shots – and particularly when pointing the camera upwards – the blue skies in my pictures take on a deepr, almost petrol-blue tonality. While the sky does tend to be a deeper blue when you look towards the vertical, I’m not sure that explains this change in tonality that I sometimes get. I could probably fiddle with the colours during the edit, but I quite like the richness of it.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I was going to title todays post “hiding in the bushes” but that just sounded creepy. Framed by Foliage sounds much nicer.
I guess the theme today – if four pictures can be said to constitute a “theme” – is my tendency to choose to frame subjects with vegetation, whether it be shrubs, flowers, trees, or all three. I notice that I do this a lot. I don’t know if it’s unusual or if everyone uses this particular device. Whatever the case, it’s one I use often.
The foliage in these images is rarely the subject, even if it sometimes takes up a lot of the frame, but it is still integral to the picture. All four pictures shown today would still work thout the framing, but they would be markedly different.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Anyway, whatever the plural (and I expect there isn’t a collective noun), here are three photographs of underpasses. They’re all fairly close to one another – in fact, the latter two photos are in the same structure.
They felt like a good trio of pictures to publish together.
This whole roll of film had a sense of suspense about it. I took my Canon Sure Shot Supreme on an outing a couple of months back and decided to carry it in its case using the built-in belt strap. This was very convenient right up to the point where the strap came unglued and the camera fell onto a concrete floor (still inside the case, thankfully). The camera’s plastic shell became slightly misaligned and had to be popped back into shape, an a few little chips of plastic broke of around the shutter button. I was concerned about light leaks (so I filled the chip holes with a bit of black silicone), and also some sort of major damage to the mechanism or electronics. However, when I finished shooting to roll a few weeks later and got the negatives back they were all perfectly fine. So I still have a working Supreme, albeit now with a few battle scars.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
There is something that attracts me to photographing post boxes. It’s not hard to figure out – it’s the vivid red that does it. I photograph them in black and white sometimes too, but colour really works best.
This one dates back to the reign of King George, so would have been erected sometime between 1936 and 1952, when he died and new boxes tok on the ER markings denoting Queen Elizabeth II.
It also has a sticker on it advertising a march and rally seeking justice for the events that took place at the Battle of Orgreave during the miner’s strike in June 1984.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
One of my primary means of taking photos is to just go for a walk somewhere promising and see what pictures present themselves. Even ordinary looking areas can usually turn up a wealth of subjects, particularly if the lighting or weather is agreeable for what you are seeking to achieve.
This is a photo (as, indeed, are most of the pictures I’ll be posting over the next few days) that was made this way. Just a place I walked past that looked like it would make a nice picture.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
