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Continuing a little series... (I realise that I'm quite good at starting a series and then getting side-tracked and forgetting all about it... )
We were there on a warm, sunny September day. The town was heaving, the amusement arcades and chip shops were doing a roaring trade.
The beach was empty except for a party of twitchers.
Strange place...
Thanks for looking,
Moira
| Brand: | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera: | Nikon D90  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | 16.0-85.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 19 Sep 2012 - 12:20 PM |
| Focal Length: | 16mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/3.5 |
| Aperture: | f/22.0 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/100sec |
| Exposure Comp: | -1/3 |
| ISO: | 200 |
| Exposure Mode: | Shutter speed priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | No Flash |
| White Balance: | As Shot |
| Title: | Great Yarmouth 3 |
| Username: | 
mrswoolybill |
| Uploaded: | 27 Nov 2012 - 8:07 AM |
| Tags: | Beach, Black & white, Coast, Humour / fun, Photo journalism |
| Votes: | 72 |
Comments
Keep debating with myself whether there is too much foreground, but no, I think you have got it right. A good balance to the composition and I would guess works best in mono. But twitchers in that part of Great Yarmouth beach?
Albert
PS Had to call it Great so as not to confuse it with Yarmouth on the IOW which is a charming place 
Quote: Keep debating with myself whether there is too much foreground, but no, I think you have got it right.
Albert, I spotted the kiosk and the empty beach - this was prime location, just beside the pier. I was only vaguely aware of the twitchers and was rather annoyed with them for spoiling the emptiness - I was intending to clone them out. But looking at the image afterwards I rather liked them. They had a telescope on a tripod, directed at the sandbanks opposite the beach.
Quote: has to be mono I think!
I didn't even keep a processed colour version as far as I can remember. I took several pictures in the town over the course of an hour or so, they are among my favourites of the year as a whole and they were all taken with b&w in mind.
Cheers everyone,
Moira
Why would you want to hire a deck chair here then have to put your trekking gear on to get to the sea!! I'm glad you kept those twitchers in - very Monty Python 
Dave
Thanks so much for the UA Ron, I was about to log out and go out, glad I stayed on for a few minutes!
Moira
Quote: This is so funny.
Thanks Chris, that's reassuring. I thought maybe I just had a weird sense of humour...
Quote:
Thanks Chris, that's reassuring. I thought maybe I just had a weird sense of humour...
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
A good conversion Moira. Cannot make my mind up about the twitchers, Do they add to the scene or do they Distract. Why Iam I going on about this... it's not even my picture.
A great seemingly out of season scene on a beach! The isolation, the humour the intonation are all superb.
Maggie
I love your comment about getting side-tracked - oh how I can relate to that! I've told myself that I will finish processing my images from Bastrop and that they will be upload this week! But of course, in the mean time, I've taken more photos 
This does seem a strange place - were it not for the people in the distance, and all the footprints in the sand I would think it abandoned.
(I too had to look up twitchers.............)
Anne
I do like Sandy's mirage...
Thanks again everyone, and particularly Chris for the UA, that's a really nice surprise to come back to.
We use 'twitchers' to refer to bird-watchers, the obsessive sort who go out looking specifically for rare birds; but I suspect that this party may have been watching seals on the sandbanks rather than birds. Not sure if there's a term for obsessive seal-watchers...
Moira
Did you manage to find a spot on the beach then, Moira?! A fine mono capture, and think the figures on the right add to the shot 
Trev
I'm afraid he didn't earn a lot of money this summer. Summer? Even I believe GB had a very, very bad year.
This image is amazing. What a lot of space and depth. Love it.
Johanna
My thanks to Mark for his UA, a surprise, and to everyone else who's called in here - I'm amazed at how well this has been received.
Moira
isolation captured to perfection, I like the twitchers in the shot.
John
Quote: Surreal
Quote: reminds me of a Fellini movie....
So it's not just me...
A great shot Moira, very well taken indeed. Well done that Girl.
John
I like this and considered in my mind, would it make the perfect picture if the timber building was placed over on the right, inviting us in! But then I thought its different to what one might expect and why conform to doing as others might - great shot
Four UAs in a day - that's special. Thanks so much Walter.
Moira
Quote: would it make the perfect picture if the timber building was placed over on the right, inviting us in! But then I thought its different to what one might expect and why conform to doing as others might
Exactly, Ann. I'm more interested in the shadow tugging out to the side - I composed very carefully to include that.
perfectly composed Moira. there's a natural movement from left to right, from the building to the twitchers (every day I learn a new word...., the fact is that I forget them so quickly ).
the void space in the bottom part helps in reading the image. and that roof that hits the horizon is simply perfect.
very well seen
francesco
Absolute genius. The twitchers look like they are looking for the illusive deck chairs.
Brilliant.
Andy
Many thanks to Andy and Barry for their awards, a very nice surprise to come down to this morning!
Moira
Superb capture and very well deserved awards Moira
Helen
Doing a brisk business...
Tremendous image and wonderful composition Moira.
Dougie
I assume the twitchers are those people in the distance stood in a huddle!
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