Sand, Cement, Beach and Beasts

Katy throwing sand on Freshwater West Beach.  Nikon D7000

29th July 2012

I could not decide on any one single picture from today; there were lots.   In the end, I decided on a set of pictures, with a tenuous thread of beaches running through them.

The first picture is of Katy throwing sand in the wind on Freshwater West beach (just by where Shell Cottage of Harry Potter fame was filmed).  I made the mistake of standing downwind at first; thankfully the camera has quite good seals on it to keep the sand out!

The second picture is of a footprint from some mythical beast (well, probably a dog) on the beach; leading into the tenuous link to the last two pictures.

Footprint on Freshwater West Beach.  Nikon D7000

The picture of the reinforcing bar and ivy is the remnants of an old blast wall at the top of the beach made of concrete (which is made of sand...); the final image is some rather good graffiti on the other side of the blast wall of some mythical beast that stalks the beaches at night.   There are some really good graffiti artists around, however some local muppet had sprayed a crude bright-red knob over the decent painting; at least taking the photograph on a paper negative reduced the contrast of the vandalisation.

Rebar and Ivy.  4x5 view camera,
130mm reclaimed  Kodak lens,
f11 for 1 second onto preflashed Ilford VC
paper negative through a yellow filter.

Graffiti.  4x5 view camera,
130mm reclaimed  Kodak lens,
f8 for 9 seconds onto preflashed Ilford VC
paper negative through a yellow filter.