Today has seen a vast improvement in the weather. It was cold last night and barely got above freezing all day but it was dry and clear with nothing but a gentle breeze.
We have been to Redcar…………for those that know it, I know they will be thinking this bloke is definitely a sandwich short of a picnic…………I would be the last to dispute this slur but have to say we had a grand wander on the beach. Redcar has a wonderful stretch of sand. I will admit that the immediate foreshore inland of the sands could do with a lick of paint…………..that’s a touch optimistic……..It could do with a tsunami and a total rebuild.
For some reason……………my fault?…………..never!…… All todays pictures are somewhat fuzzy and I promise I was not, I could have sworn I was at the top of my game. Unfortunately these images prove otherwise and we all know the camera doesn’t lie.
Lots of seabirds on the edge of the surf. I only had a wide angle lens so what with that and blurry I can’t realistically share them with you. But Herring Gull, Common Gull……..almost the same thing but missing the orange spot on it’s beak. Black-headed Gulls by the dozen and a couple of Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
Well above average as roast dinners go it was too, portions a little on the large side but better to err on the side of caution than skimp. Thank you all at the Ship Inn.
Saltburn by the Sea has a claim to fame in that it has the last surviving cliff lift using water ballast as motivation. I really must get back after Easter and see it working.
A diversion…………….have any of you purchased anything from Lensbaby…………..Thought not………….they can convert a 5K Nikon body into a cheap copy of a Kodak box camera for the paltry sum of one hundred and twenty pounds. Surprised there isn’t a six month waiting list. For another forty pounds or so we can have a pinhole effect lens. Even I can make one of those………..did it in school with a cocoa can. What were the images like. They were brilliant, my mate Dennis looked okay in my picture…………..poor blighter looked awful in real life with acne, a protuberant nose and a tooth missing. The pin hole camera did him proud. The print was also hand signed with a thumb print………….couldn’t find the tweezers in the dark.
That’s all, have a good week.
Well, I liked these shots! The last couple were the only ones I felt were really out of focus. The rest seemed just hazy, like there was lots of fog or smog or just something in the atmosphere preventing that crisp clear shot, from a distance.
ReplyDeleteI really like the third shot, with the tidal pools and birds. The stick coming out of the water looks like a hand reaching into another dimension. :o)
Krista, I tend to work manual all the time and this lens is 1K sterling. I let them acclimatise. so suspect it was just a bad camera day. I can't have bad hair days........haven't got any. Think I will phone Scotty he beamed me up yesterday.
ReplyDeleteKrista a PS. Just looked at the meta data from these shots, the haze is haze but the rest? I never looked at shutter speed 1/8th sec hand held. What a plonker but steady hands. Thanks for your critique I feel better now.
ReplyDeleteMy theory (experience?) is that it's just plain harder to hold a camera still with icy cold fingers! I like your beach shots, though.
ReplyDeleteI never knew Redcar had a steelworks. I knew they had a race track; I used to donate money to it years ago via the local Ladbrokes.
ReplyDeleteI'll go along with the bird ID's Adrian. They look about right to me, especially the Oystercatchers. ;)
Nice pics and fuzzy ones pictures.
ReplyDeleteDawntreader it is but too easy to blame the cold. Just lack of concentration after a big lunch.
ReplyDeleteKeith, far less steel works than it once did. The area was virtually a hundred percent heavy industry. Mainly steel and chemicals.
Bob 'twas good to get out. Bracing I believe is the polite term for bloody freezing.
Funny to think of you having an 'off' day - can't have been you, must have been the elements. I don't think there could be a better shot of where you were going for lunch! If it wasn't meant to be hazy and dreamy, I'd claim I made it that way! It's beautiful.
ReplyDeletePauline the weather was hazy. It was the two half dozen shots I took after lunch that suffered. I only had a pint but was ready for a siesta.
ReplyDeleteLike Pauline I very much liked the antepenultimate (just love that word) photo. It doesn't look blurry to me (not sure what that tells you) but I confess that the penultimate picture gave me a touch of vertigo.
ReplyDeleteLast time I saw Redcar steelworks was at least 20 years ago and it seemed massive, as was our nearest - Scunthorpe - in those days.
ReplyDeleteConsidering what you said was the shutter speed used you did really well holding the camera steady in the present weather conditions. Only the funicular railway shot looks as though you need to hand out the 3D glasses ;)
Gb, an excellent word. The seabird pictures aren't that sharp, the landscapes are okay. Just a lack of concentration had I noticed the shutter speed then I could have opened the aperture and solved the problem.
ReplyDeleteJohn, The steel works still stretches for miles towards Middlesbrough. Much of it is shut but some they are reopening. Apparently a Korean company has bought it.
The blurry was just me with my muppet head on.