Mother Nature was into the orange and teal look, but on two different days.
While I managed to wake up early enough to catch the sunrise every day, they were mostly “meh”.
On Monday, while there were no clouds and the sky was not really great, at least it was a little bit colorful. I went for a different kind of “sunrise” photo with this close-up of rocks at low tide.
Certainly not an award-winner, but I like it enough to share here 😉
The following morning was very cloudy and moody. This was taken at a nearby beach restaurant, long before opening. I really like the dark tones with a hint of clear green water when the waves crashed.
Composition-wise, I think it look quite balanced with elements that are more or less equally distributed vertically: first the deckchairs, then two layers of waves, and finally the horizon.
After rain showers on Wednesday afternoon, I glanced out the window and saw a rainbow forming and ran out to the nearby seashore.
It didn’t last long, but I managed to take those shots, the first in the same location as the previous photos (the restaurant was open, but of course no one was sitting outside).
The second was taken at the other end of that beach, just a short walk away. I really like the sunrays coming at a 45° angle and the now disappearing rainbow.
A beautiful, fleeting moment about to become just a memory.
It always pays to take my camera when going for a walk, even a short one. Well, I’ll rephrase that… It pays to always take my camera when going for a walk. Maybe 80% of the time, I’ll just carry it around without pressing the shutter once, but when I do witness a scene like this, it really makes up for all the times I come back home without a single shot.
It would probably be self-aggrandizing to say I waited for hours for the right moment, but that is not what happened. I just glanced at the horizon as soon as I arrived at the beach and saw that big sailboat heading in the direction of a beautiful lone cloud. I just walked down the beach to a slightly better location so that I could include the tallest hill on the right, and waited less than a minute to get that shot.
What can I say… Luck does play a part in photography.
It’s not to everyone’s taste, as I often say, but I do like mundane photos that simply serve as a record of a place and time.
The divers from the local club and returned from their morning diving expedition and, as they often do, just hung their wetsuits everywhere there was some space.
My favorite aspect of that composition are the two full wetsuits hanging from atop the container, as well as the only “person” in the photo, the surfer on the blue towel.
Bottom-line: I could take photos of wetsuits in that place every single day, multiple times a day, but it doesn’t always look that good!
Pure bliss for the quirky photographer that I am (sometimes).
The bench. The hat. The newspaper. The sea. The crossed legs. The cane. It just all works very well, in my opinion.
I’ve refrained from content-awaring the sailboat on the left, although some might think it’s a bit distracting. Some days I might agree, but today I decided to leave it, because it’s just part of the scenery, not an imperfection. I imagine that man looking up in between articles to watch the distant boats silently sail past.
My only regret is not taking a few more seconds to get a better framing, as I was not standing in the middle of the bench, but I thought he might notice me.
If you think that was a bit sloppy, I’ll have to agree.
Just a bunch of weathered (and, I assume, unused) surf boards.
Old relics that might have survived huge waves in their heyday, or that have been there for ages and were only damaged by years of exposure to the sun, wind, rain and sea salt.