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Low tide and fleeting clouds

Fishing boats at Alderburgh

A commercial fishing fleet is now a thing of the past at Aldeburgh.  Skipper Dean Fryer explains why:  ‘Bureaucracy, paperwork, over-the-top EU  quotas and the rising costs of simply fuelling and maintaining a boat has driven most fishermen out of business.’

Nevertheless, fishing seems to be a part of the DNA for many.  The high tide line along the beach is marked by a sprinkling of small boats and, behind them, a row of black fishermen’s huts.  Typically a catch might include sole, skate, bass, flounder, lobster and/or crab.

The shingle beach shelves steeply and ‘vintage’ tractors are used to haul the boats to safe dry land.

Decaying groynes

 

 

Wave patterns

 

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Cascading waves

Using watercolour filter

Dune posts

Using watercolour filter

 

Bacton groynes

At the water’s edge

Throughout our few days on the Norfolk coast the strong breeze constantly injected energy into the waves breaking on the shore.

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Not just a pretty picture

Often, when taking a photograph, we are consciously or unconsciously trying to capture more than just a visual image. We are attempting to capture an experience that impacts on two, three or even four of our senses  –  not just the visual.  Consider, for example, the two images below and in each instance allow yourself to be there at the scene of the breaking waves  –  experience the force of the sea, hear the sound, taste the salt spray.

Or, enjoy the relaxing warmth of paddling through the shallow pools left by the ebbing tide on a warm summer’s day

 

Pebble patterns and textures

This is the final selection of pebble images  –  at least, for the time being!

More pebble patterns and textures

This is the second group of three:

Pebble patterns and textures

Over the next week or so I intend to post probably three collections of pebble patterns.  All of the images were taken as I walked along a beach in East Sussex.  When I spotted a pebble that interested me I simply stood over it, pointed my camera down and clicked.  The pictures were obviously cropped later.  Nothing has been added or removed from the actual image.  I am constantly amazed by the beauty of the abstract patterns in natural objects that can so easily pass unnoticed.

The Lighthouse

The lighthouse pictured is La Corbière, situated at the south west tip of the Isle of Jersey.  The name means ‘a place where crows gather’, but the crows have long since been displaced by seagulls.

La Corbiere

At the Water’s Edge 3. Turning of the tide

At the Water's Edge 3

See also At the Water’s Edge, At the Water’s Edge 2, At the Water’s Edge 5, The Water Abstracts, Wave, Wave Abstract, Abstract 101

Wave Abstract

Wave abstract

See also Creating a Splash, Wave, At the Water’s Edge, At the Water’s Edge 2, At the Water’s Edge 3, At the Water’s Edge 5

Wave

See also Creating a Splash, Wave abstract, At the Water’s Edge, At the Water’s Edge 2, At the Water’s Edge 3, At the Water’s Edge 5

Dune Grasses

Dune Grasses

See also Dune Grass 1, Grasses in the Breeze (1), Flowering Grass, Buttercup Meadow, Intricate pattern of Dune Grasses and Flowering Grasses in Sunlight