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Beach folk

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A trio of photos of people enjoying the beach at Bridlington. There’s something intrinsically British about people reading a newspaper while sat on a chair on the sand. I’m only surprised they’re not wearing overcoats and hats!

Beside the seaside, beside the sea

I’m not sure if the people in this next picture wrote the words in the sand, or just sat there because they thought it was the best place to get some of Jesus’ love.

Jesus ❤ You This Much

Windbreaks, umbrellas and tents. Everything you need for a day at the British seaside…

Life's a beach

I do love the Brisish seaside, despite my tongue-in-cheek ribbing. 🙂

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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Seaweed

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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.

Seaweed

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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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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Food festivals and lifeguard huts

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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…).

Lifeguards
She sells seashells on the seashore

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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Gull on a lamppost

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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.

Gull on a lamp post

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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On a North Sea beach

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My plan to get more film developed today has not borne fruit, so for now it means I’ll have to dip into the archive to find a shot (for today at least – I still plan to get another roll developed tomorrow). The good news is that it wasn’t procrastination at fault, but the fact that I went out with the camera this morning and shot a couple of new rolls. I was using the ETRSi, so that should mean 30 more potential shots to feed the fires that keep the blog going.

Today’s photo then is from late spring last year, made during a daytrip my wife and I made to Bridlington, a seaside town on the Yorkshire coast. I thought that I’d posted this one before, but looking through my posts I can’t see it on here. It’s one of my favourites from this roll too.

On a North Sea beach

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 27 May 2021

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Unintended stories

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I took this photograph looking down onto the beach from the promenade at Bridlington. I wasn’t quite quick enough to keep the woman at the top of the picture within the frame. At first I was disappointed that I’d not taken the shot quicker but, on reflection, I think the way it’s framed with her partially exiting the top of the shot is more interesting. It’s added a small sense of mystery to the image I think.

On the beach they wait
A sandcastle mystery
Unfolds before us

On the sand

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 27 May 2021

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Pirates

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Out at sea a lone pirate vessel heads south along the shoreline. Crewed by a motley band of brigands, ne’er-do-wells, and, well, anyone who bought a ticket for the pirate boat trip from the hut at the harbour really.

No press-gangs required
For a trip to sea on this
Small pirate vessel

Pirate shores

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 27 May 2021