Tag: sea

9 October 2025

Another of my quick projects (or rather collections of related photos, as this is a subject I’ve visited many time before). Visiting the Lyme Regis harbour at high slack tide gave me plenty of opportunities to study the pattern of reflections on the surface ripples, in this case…

15 June 2022

I’ve recently taken part in a couple of hand-made book workshops with Alex Hare and Lizzie Shepherd, learning how to make a simple concertina book and a Japanese stab-bound book. For the first, I chose a series of my “accidental paintings” – close-ups of weathered boat hulls. I’ve had…

8 May 2020

Taken as I did my daily walk before tackling the weekly shop in Seaton, “limpid” was the word that immediately sprang to mind as I gazed at the calm blue sea. The sea is often clearer here than at Lyme as there is less sediment from the cliffs,…

29 June 2016

My first visit to Polperro a couple of weeks ago reminded me just how clear the Cornish sea can be – where I live on the Devon-Dorset border, coastal erosion means that the sea is often cloudy with sediment. Most of the time I was there, the clouds…