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On the beach with ghosts

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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?

Groynes
Seaside fade
A day at the beach

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.

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Lifeguard paddleboard

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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.

Past the lifeguard flag

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.

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Yellow parasols

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More beach scenes today, but this time a tryptych of sorts showing the same set of yellow beach parasols in different compositions.

This was the first roll of the new Fujifilm 200 that I’ve shot. From everything I’ve read it’s actually Kodak Gold that has been repackaged under Fuji branding. Gold’s a nice enough film, but I’d like to have the actual Fujifilm C200 to choose as well. It has a noticeably different look.

Yellow parasols #1
Yellow parasols #2
Yellow parasols #3

Olympus Trip 35 & Fujifilm 200. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 7 May 2023.

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Kites

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On the last dull day of our stay in Lido di Jesolo, while my wife lay on a sun-louger at the hotel, I took myself out for a long walk down the beach. Also walking along the beach was this guy selling kites. There may actually have been more than one kite seller as I remeber seeing them fluttering in the sky in a number of locations, but equally I suppose it could be that the guy just got around a bit.m

Kites

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 7 May 2023.

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Pedalos

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I’ve not been on a pedalo for a long time. The last time I remember was on a holiday to Ibiza in the late 1990s. My son was around four years old at the time and came for a ride on the padalo with me. Four year olds are not much help when it comes to powering the pedalo, and I was absolutely exhausted before too long.

After a while I remember becoming quite concerned at how far we were from the shore – it was probably 100 metres at most (if that), but I became aware how deep the water beneath us was getting, and also that the surface was no longer flat, but now had a swell that would raise us up and down noticeably. Again, probably not a huge concern, but something that suddenly plants itself at the front of your mind when you’re responsible for you child.

In the end I set off back for the beach and everything was fine, but it’s amazing how quickly fear can rise.

Pedalos

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 7 May 2023.

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Beach umbrellas

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A very noticeable feature of the beach at Lido di Jesolo was the sheere quantity of sunloungers and beach umbrellas. There were thousands of them, probably tens of thousands! It’s someting I’ve noticed in other Italian resorts too (in my relatively limited experience of them), but they really stood out here.

Hotels have their own section of beach with sunloungers for their guests, although I think they can be hired by non-residents too. Some of the hotels are directly adjacent to the sand, but others might be a street or two further inland.

We visited in early May, before the main Italian holiday season begins, so most of the loungers were unoccupied while we were there. I expect it is a sight to behold at the height of the season!

Beach furniture
Sunloungers and parasols
Sunloungers and parasols in bloom

Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 May 2023.

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Dune grass

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Whenever I see pictures like this, Escape (The Piña Colada Song) springs to mind.

If you like piña coladas
And gettin’ caught in the rain
If you’re not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you like makin’ love at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
Then I’m the love that you’ve looked for
Write to me and escape

A colleague I used to work with told me he always sang it as “In the dunes in a cape“. 🙂

Dune grass

Yashicamat 124G & Kodak Plus-X (expired 2008). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 6mins @ 20°

Taken on 27 August 2022

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Building a horse out of sand

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Despite owning a perfectly good bicycle, this man has taken it upon himself to build a horse. As I took this picture I had a brief moment where I wondered what would happen if it had suddenly sprung into life like something from a Harry Potter movie or something. It doesn’t have a saddle, so I expect riding it would have caused a degree of chafing.

Sand horse

Yashicamat 124G & Kodak Plus-X (expired 2008). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 6mins @ 20°

Taken on 27 August 2022