Tag: seaside

1 December 2018

Every year, I post an image a day for the Advent period for my friends and followers on Facebook. This year, most of my images are beach related as that’s my favourite haunt in my spare time, but I hope to include some of my favourite rusty artwork…

2 April 2008

Lyme is home to several colonies of beach huts. Glorified sheds by the sea, they have a quirky charm that has inspired me to take quite a few photos over the years.   These are on Monmouth Beach, and for a few weeks each spring and autumn, the…

12 July 2006
11 April 2005

After a disappointingly dull afternoon in Lyme Regis, I was just about to traipse home when the sun suddenly came through the clouds and illuminated the golden sandstone of the cliffs by Stonebarrow Hill and all along the Jurassic Coast towards Burton Bradstock. This view won’t be repeated…

18 January 2004

A freezing cold January morning, when my fingers were almost too cold to operate the shutter button. I’d been spending time taking photos of the rising sun shining on the wet sand and rocks, and eventually the sun came up, and a couple walking their dog over the…

16 November 2003

Blue and yellow always look good together, and a dash of white adds to the nautical breeziness of this study of beach huts on Monmouth beach. Much more appealing in cold winter light than the sticky heat of August, when all will probably be occupied by happy families.

10 October 2003

Sometimes, even the dullest evening can result in an interesting image. Twilight allowed a long exposure, giving an unexpected silkiness and transparency to the water of a breaking wave on the town beach at Lyme Regis. I was lucky to get away with this handheld, at  6/10th of a…

29 August 2003

A chance coincidence of beach litter and calcite-veined limestone, part of the Blue Lias sequence west of Lyme Regis. I used to have lots of time to scour the beach for interesting stuff on summer evenings, but that luxury seems to have evaporated over the years. A visual…

26 July 2003

I have only ever once been to the Scilly Isles, and was entranced by the limpidity of the water compared to the sediment-laden sea at home. This is a view of the sea in the harbour at St Agnes on a breezy day – unusually, mid-day light worked…

9 June 2003

Naturally-occurring bubbles in a rock pool – although it looks as if I added some bubble bath, it is organic compounds from decaying seaweed that produce the froth. (The same that make the foam on beer!) Sometimes, a photo causes a small ripple of excitement when one sees it full-sized…