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.
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.
Olympus Trip 35 & Fujifilm 200. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I’ve just come back from a couple of days in Blackpool, and I have to say the the sea was much less inviting looking than the calm Adriatic waters at Lido di Jesolo – even taking into account the no diving sign on this under-repair jetty. By contrast the Irish Sea looked very rough, brown, and cold.
I managed to shoot a couple of rolls of film in Blackpool, so you might get a glimpse of the sea in those when they appear here at some point.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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!
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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