It is amazing the colours you can find within a normally bland image when you push the processing of the image to the extremes.
Here is a shot straight out of camera of a wave breaking on part of an old Groyne.
Unprocessed Breaking Wave
Here is the processed image after some time and effort in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Breaking Wave With Attitude
Would like to wish the readers of my Blog “Happy New Year”
To see 2009 out I thought I would post a series of my long exposure shots that I have taken over the closing weeks of this year.
I hope 2010 is a great year for you all.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.
Here is a nice serene view of one of the two entrances to Dover harbour, a complete contrast to the images I took less than two weeks ago when the port traffic was suspended due to the bad weather and stormy waters were battering the outer walls of the harbour.
When I am out and about trying to find scenes and things to capture my imagination I come across countless people who I call “SSSB” shooters. The little ditty stands for See Stop Shoot Brigade….. I wonder how many of the images they take still reside in a digital dungeon never to be seen printed out and displayed due to the fact that the image they captured did not resemble the scene that initially caused them to stop.
I myself can spend quite sometime wandering an area trying to find the best position to shot from, 9 times out of 10 I will come away with multiple images from the same location that all work in one way, or another.
I was recently having a wander round Dungeness Point with a friend and fellow photographer Nathan Hulse and whilst we were there we were having a sort of unspoken competition to see who could find the most shots out of one subject.
Here is a shot of Nathan taking the low perspective with one of the items that captured his interest, you will be able to see other examples of the Nathan’s shots on his blog site.
Some serious weather and wind has been travelling round the Southeast of England this weekend, Dover was being hit rather hard by some strong winds and raging Sea’s.
Ferries and other vessels were not entering the port of Dover as the sea was too rough and the winds were driving very hard.
A blustery day out with rain stinging any exposed skin and the moisture seeping in to any gaps of the camera body….
Dungeness is littered with fishing boats and sheds used by the fisherman, It is a vast shingle bank that produces great images when the weather is on your side.
Wandering around the shingle banks amid the beached fishing boats and the hulls of the derelict and dishevelled vessels of years gone by your attention is grabbed by shapes, colours and patterns that are everywhere.
This vessel has not seen the water for years and I doubt if it will ever again, paint fading and peeling away and the deck slowly rotting.
Also to be found along the beach are the hand winches and mechanical winches that have been used over the years to drag the vessel back on to the safety of the shingle once the days fishing has been completed and it is time to return home.
Sitting high on the shingle bank waiting for it’s next visit to the sea, this lone fishing boat at Hythe wait,s for the rolling clouds to clear and a return to the sea to fish the waters and escape the monotony of the shingle.
Rye Harbour is a village located on the East Sussex coast in southeast England, near theestuary of the River Rother: it is part of the civil parish of Icklesham. Rye Harbour is located some two miles (3.2 km) downstream of the town of Rye.
The River Rother from Rye seawards, and including the village of Rye Harbour, is under the control of the Environment Agency. At the village itself there are yacht moorings; a small fishing fleet (coded RX: Rye SusseX); some commercial shipping; and a long-established lifeboat station. There is also a holiday village called Frenchman’s Beach alongside the village itself.
The village is 200 years old, having been built on an extension of the shingle beaches, progressively deposited by the sea over the last 800 years. These deposits limit access to the original open medieval port of Rye, now two miles (3 km) inland from the sea. The village has one of the chain of Martello Towers constructed during the Napoleonic Wars; it was built on the beachline of the time. The beachline has now advanced a further kilometre southward.
The shed which is located on the Rye nature reserve has always been known to me as the Red Hut of Rye.
Upon searching around for information of the structure I can across a little more detail with the assistance of www.ryeharbour.net.
According to the site, the shed has always been used by Shrimp Catchers as far back as the owner can remember, the shed was previously owned by the current owners Uncle.
Hense the owners name for the shed is “Uncles Shed” the shed is given a fresh coat of paint twice a year to keep it standing proud again the barren surrounding.
When all you see is haze due to a fog bank or mist rolling in, the overall landscape becomes muted and dull, I found this scene whilst walking along the shore line of the Medway.
It reminded me of a view of a River cutting through a valley of fields down in Sussex I think the area is called Seven Sisters, this bend in the mud with the trapped water looked like the area when viewed from high.
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