The last of my series of fishing huts from the banks of the Gironde. I shot here for 3 days, slowly moving along the shoreline but often returning to this particular location. There’s something I love about the structure of this carrelet and because it’s off the beaten track, it was easy to take my time, empty my mind and shoot in complete solitude.

I hope that you’re all having a lovely week out there in Flickrland.

Tags:   FRANCE FISHUING HUT CARRELET OLD WOODEN DECAYING SHORELINE GIRONDE ESTUARY SUNRISE SUMMER COLOUR SMOOTH LONG EXPOSURE REFLECTIONS

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Summer has finally arrived here in the UK and it’s way too hot for me. My office is like a sauna but apparently I can’t have a Jacuzzi as the NHS have better things to spend their money on. Like patients, or something. So all I can do is imagine myself sitting on one of these beautiful old fishing huts, free to jump in and cool off anytime I please.

Have a lovely week and don’t forget your sun lotion.

Tags:   FRANCE CARRELET FISHING HUT WOODEN DECAYING GIRONDE COLOUR SUNRISE SUMMER SMOOTH LONG EXPOSURE ESTUARY PASTEL REFLECTIONS

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Shooting in mono is a pretty steep learning curve for me. Without the distraction of colour to disguise all the usual flaws in an image, everything is pretty much laid bare. And as a photographer who has often used colour to hide a whole multitude of problems from the viewer, I’m finding my journey into the dark side really challenging- from having to think much more carefully about composition to learning a whole new set of processing skills.

Shot at 630 seconds, this is one of the few images where I’ve had a problem with sensor noise at base ISO and I’m not sure why. It was a cold and damp morning so it shouldn’t be a thermal issue- I’ve shot 20 minute exposures in the summer and haven’t seen this before. But I have recently dropped the camera into a lake and although it seems to work ok, maybe I’ve done something bad to it.
I’ve cleaned the image up as best I can and hope you enjoy it.

Have a lovely week, Flickrites and thanks for all your support.

Tags:   JETTY BUILDING PIER WATER SKY MOVEMENT LONG UK LAKE MONO MONOCHROME EXPOSURE CLOUDS SHADOWS REFLECTIONS SMOOTH FILTERS

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Shooting along the coast is always a pleasure as you never quite know what you’re going to walk away with. From shots that turn out pretty much as you hoped to complete disaster, we’re always walking that photographic tightrope. And being a little rusty after lockdown just means that the disaster side of the see saw is tilted further up.
For instance, I was hoping to post from a recent shoot which involved a very long exposure and was a one shot deal because of the light. But I forgot to switch my settings from 1/60 to BULB mode resulting in 973 black frames. I wondered what the clicking noise from the camera was. And then it was too dark to realistically do what I wanted.
So here’s one from Norway instead, when I was presumably more mentally agile than I appear to be now.

Have a great week Flickrites.

Tags:   NORWAY COAST SEASCAPE WATER FLOW ROCKS BEACH GOLDEN FILTERS SNOW COLD SHORELINE SHORE JAGGED MOUNTAIN

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I’ve always felt that black and white photography is more like reading the book than seeing the movie. It leaves something for your imagination to work with rather than being presented with everything all at once. And in life, that’s generally a good thing.

But as a photographer who primarily works in color, I produce very little mono output, largely because it requires a skillset which I don’t really feel comfortable with. In fact, my “mono book” would be more of a children’s novel than a literary classic. But sometimes, it’s good to try something different and the sky on the day I took this shot seemed to work better with no color distraction in it.

I hope that you all have a lovely Easter.

Tags:   BOAT WRECK WOODEN SKY MONO BEACHED ABANDONED SHIPWRECK COASTLINE DECAYING

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