A Windswept Coast
Dec 2, 2018 13:03:09 #
Dec 3, 2018 06:15:39 #
Dec 3, 2018 07:46:06 #
I can't help but wonder where you and your camera were situated. The title brings to mind the Peter May books, but I wouldn't connect this with his coastal descriptions. Im scratching my head trying to understand the apparent lack of wave forms to accompany the surf lines. The lighting and angle? with a little help?
Dec 3, 2018 08:28:19 #
fergmark wrote:
I can't help but wonder where you and your camera were situated. The title brings to mind the Peter May books, but I wouldn't connect this with his coastal descriptions. Im scratching my head trying to understand the apparent lack of wave forms to accompany the surf lines. The lighting and angle? with a little help?
The wind was flattening the waves rather than building them up. The lines are spume/foam, blown parallel with the coast, not breakers. I was standing on a headland at the end of a bay.
Dec 3, 2018 08:46:42 #
Dec 3, 2018 09:32:37 #
Graham Smith wrote:
The wind was flattening the waves rather than building them up. The lines are spume/foam, blown parallel with the coast, not breakers. I was standing on a headland at the end of a bay.
The vantage point does feel like being airborne. I suspected it was a protected area but I have only witnessed spume at a much smaller scale. The juxtaposition of that, with the jagged geology is quite marvelous.
Dec 3, 2018 10:00:49 #
fergmark wrote:
The vantage point does feel like being airborne. I suspected it was a protected area but I have only witnessed spume at a much smaller scale. The juxtaposition of that, with the jagged geology is quite marvelous.
This was taken on a different day and looking in the opposite direction, south instead of north. I was standing roughly in the centre of the headland you see. The cliffs are close to 200 feet high.
Dec 3, 2018 10:44:05 #
kenievans
Loc: Dallas
Breathtaking, awe inspiring, and stunning. How many other shots did you take before deciding on this one?
Dec 3, 2018 10:49:54 #
kenievans wrote:
Breathtaking, awe inspiring, and stunning. How many other shots did you take before deciding on this one?
Dozens, I'm a great believer in working the scene. Squeezing it dry as it were
Dec 3, 2018 10:56:06 #
This is beautiful. The lines of foam are really nice, and the boulders are beautiful.
Dec 3, 2018 11:07:16 #
Graham Smith wrote:
This was taken on a different day and looking in the opposite direction, south instead of north. I was standing roughly in the centre of the headland you see. The cliffs are close to 200 feet high.
Thank you for digging this out. This is a majestic place. I'm seeing what appears to be a number of dwellings, or structures of some sort outlined. Several almost a pyramidal shaped. Gables? Ruins? 4 pixels tall but intriguing. Also the repeated upright structure to the left that appears as a giant fence is curious.
Dec 3, 2018 11:30:39 #
fergmark wrote:
Thank you for digging this out. This is a majestic place. I'm seeing what appears to be a number of dwellings, or structures of some sort outlined. Several almost a pyramidal shaped. Gables? Ruins? 4 pixels tall but intriguing. Also the repeated upright structure to the left that appears as a giant fence is curious.
What you see is, I think, is the result of the habit that seems to be popular, amongst visitors to remote places of balancing rocks on top of one another to leave their mark on a pristine place. There are no buildings in the area.
Dec 3, 2018 13:14:31 #
Graham Smith wrote:
What you see is, I think, is the result of the habit that seems to be popular, amongst visitors to remote places of balancing rocks on top of one another to leave their mark on a pristine place. There are no buildings in the area.
Ah, thats disturbing. Kind of a sore spot for me. I really admire the early American Indians for their respect for the earth. I hope those kinds of values are not over the edge for extinction, but I am afraid that mankind is just too impressed with itself, and will continue paving over the earth. Depressing thoughts.
Dec 3, 2018 14:37:47 #
Graham Smith wrote:
The rugged Atlantic coast of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
Hi, Graham,
This B&W image certainly reduces to the lowest common denominators the effects that a classic harsh, sharp B&W day and light has upon the harsh and sharp physical features of that rugged coast.
I come away with a much different feeling than I had having viewed a wonderful color version of this scene you posted some time ago.
Thinking of you and Rosemary,
Dave
Dec 3, 2018 14:48:39 #
Uuglypher wrote:
Hi, Graham,
This B&W image certainly reduces to the lowest common denominators the effects that a classic harsh, sharp B&W day and light has upon the harsh and sharp physical features of that rugged coast.
I come away with a much different feeling than I had having viewed a wonderful color version of this scene you posted some time ago.
Thinking of you and Rosemary,
Dave
This B&W image certainly reduces to the lowest common denominators the effects that a classic harsh, sharp B&W day and light has upon the harsh and sharp physical features of that rugged coast.
I come away with a much different feeling than I had having viewed a wonderful color version of this scene you posted some time ago.
Thinking of you and Rosemary,
Dave
Thanks, Dave. The Doctors still want to defer it until after Christmas but I get a little more tired each day. I've never looked forward to a new year more than the coming one. New year, new lease of life!
Our very best to yourself and Tanya.
Graham
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