More Holiday Snaps

OK so its been a long time but I've been busy. I have acouple of minutes to spare, so returning to my list of pictures I have to post here's a couple of the tide washing in against a shingle bank on the seafront at Folkestone. As the waves gently break on the shore they make an interesting effect

Holiday Snaps 2 The English Channel

While we were in the UK we had a chance to stay with an aunt and uncle who lived in Folkestone, Kent in an apartment that overlooked the English channel (yes I could see France and yes, I did try to do a blur-o-graph of the French coast more of that later maybe)

The mornings were alway gorgeous and the light on the water was too good to resist. Here then are a couple of blurs of the English Channel...

This first one is a blur of the clouds in the sky

This shows the shadows of the clouds on the water.

Holiday Snaps (part one)

Greetings!

It has been pointed out to me that things have been quiet on the blur-o-graphy front lately. Well the truth is I've been on holiday back home in England and I've taken lots of photographs both normal and blurs. So its taking me a while to go through them. But I do have plenty of blurs to share with you. This first group of three come from the Rimac nature reserve North of my home town of Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire.

Rimac is a remarkable place of sand dunes and saltmarsh. Quiet and tranquil and though you are less than half a mile off the main coast road you would thing that you were in the middle of nowhere.

These views are of the saltmarsh with the sea and some surf in the background.

I'm inclined to think that these pictures would look pretty good displayed as a triptych.

Light Rains down

Another one from the weekend. This is probably the most abstract I've ever produced. I've stripped this one down to light and shadow. Shape and form are pretty much out of the window on this one.

Apres Georges

Georges Seurat that is.

The Impressionist school of painting has always been one of my favourites. Particularly the work of Georges Seurat. So imagine my surprise when I looked at these images and found myself thinking

"Georges Seurat would have painted like that." Actually any one of a dozen Impresionists would have painted like this but the small dot-like texture of these images put me in mind of the pointillist style adopted by Seurat.

Forgotten forest

For some reason I forgot all about the shots I took in the woods behind the cabin this morning. I just found them on the camera just as I was about to erase the files on the memory card. Good job I checked. I'm quite pleased with the feeling of light breaking through the leaves into the woods with this one. I found I'd taken about 8 shots of this scene all imperceptibly different.

ISO 100 f22 4.0 secs 27mm ZD 14-42 ND8

Crazy Day

Well, not so much a crazy day as a crazy hour this morning up at the cabin. It was about 70F and very sticky when I got up this morning with som early morning mist on the lake. But that very quickly burned off and by the time I'd got back from my curtailed run the sun was shining quite brightly and I managed to produce some quite interesting images of some tree trunks in the front yard. The particular trunk below I'm very happy with as it has some good detail in the trunk while tending towards the abstract. Rather than having a painterly feel to it there's a roughness almost like a pastel drawing.

Above: ISO 100, 4 seconds, f9 42mm ZD 14-42 ND8

This Vee'd tree has a particular fascination for me. I'll probably take more shots of it before long. Perhaps I should even find out what sort of tree it is. Perhaps I should find out what all these trees are...
Above: ISO 100, f 10, 3.2 secs, 37mm ZD 14-42, ND8

Then the strangest thing happened. The fog blew back in again. I've never seen that happen in all the years I've been going up to the lake. Visibility came down to 100 yards or so obliterating all detail in the far side of the bay. Perfect conditions to try a blur-o-graph

Above: ISO 100, f22, 5 secs, 200mm PL 45-200, ND8