Category: photography

18 April 2018

After months of cold, wet and gloom, today was the first warm sunny day of the year. Combined with a spring low tide, this was the perfect opportunity for a seaside walk. I’ve visited Seaton many times, but never at such a low tide, which revealed a wave-cut…

7 April 2018

Despite the dodgy weather forecast today, a trip to Dancing Ledge on the Isle of Purbeck was a welcome respite to being inside looking at the interminable rain we’ve had till very recently – the older I get, the more depressing I find gloomy weather! After a sprinkling…

7 March 2018

The west end of the Jurassic Coast is formed of Triassic sediments laid down in desert conditions – as a result, there are lots of red rocks to see. Ladram Bay is home to red sea stacks and cliffs, and a distressing amount of ghost gear, plastic bottles…

17 February 2018

February was a poor month for photos (dreadful weather and lots of commitments), but I did find another planet for my planetary series on the beach at Lyme Regis. (Mimas is a moon of Saturn which has a very large crater named after the astronomer William Herschel, who discovered…

10 January 2018

It must be the time of year and the recent Biblical weather, but drips have been a recent theme of my photos. Drips on early morning boats, drips on the paint skip at the recycling centre, and drips of wet silt along the concrete walls Church Cliff Walk.

24 December 2017

I’m trying out a smartphone with a camera on the principle that I don’t always have my proper camera with me and miss things. So far, quite liking the images, but disliking having to carry around a big slab instead of my little dumb phone that fits comfortably…

17 December 2017

As regular readers will know, I’ve got a bit of a thing about rusty debris on the beach (and anywhere else come to that…) I’ve been collecting circular objects (mostly by camera rather than taking them home) for a few months now, and a solar system theme has…

20 November 2017

The last few days have seen ideal conditions for colour in the sky – high scattered cloud and a clear horizon so the last rays can illuminate the underside of the clouds. Local social media has been full of “wow, look at this” images – some spectacular and…

23 October 2017

… is not gold – a well known Shakespearean quote from The Merchant of Venice. It’s certainly true in geology, where there are any number of gold coloured minerals. Where I live, there are large quantities of “fool’s gold” or iron pyrites – actually a rather brassy looking…