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January 2012 – Mauritius
As I played with different shots of small waves breaking on shore I tried to capture the light reflection and the sand at the same time. With this photo I tried to show a link between the top and the bottom part of the picture which is made by the middle part in focus. It is where you can see a bit of blue water and some brown sand.
January 2012 – Mauritius
I love all the shadows created by a sunset, especially on a beach where you have lot of seashells and corals. I was standing on the beach that evening waiting to take a shot of a fisherman who was in the sea, as I waited for so long as started to look around for things to photograph. This coral reminded me of a brain, I used a zoom lens because my main goal at that moment was to take a photo of that fisherman.
November 2011 – Mauritius
I always like to go to the beach early and leave late for taking photos of a sunset, there is often some great differences in the sky. Although I also took a shot of the sky alone I eventually chose this composition with part of the beach to give more emphasis to the the color and clouds in the sky.
November 2011 – Mauritius
This is one of the many sunset you get to watch in Mauritius. I especially liked the red tint on the sea and the shore. Those black rocks in the sea reminded me of the clouds…
May 2011 – UK, Dungeness
I took a photo of those boats probably 5 or 6 years ago, and they are still there looking great!
The fact they are so old and their paints fading away help softening the photo and blend those boats to the surrounding landscape.
May 2011 – UK, Dungeness
At the end of Derek Jarman garden in Dungeness you have what looks like is reminiscent of a Japanese Garden. In fact on that pebble beach it is quite difficult to see and I could have easily walked on it. As it is very fragile it also shows someone is maintaining that garden…
July 2011 – UK, Brighton
This is a typical weekend morning in Brighton. To take this shot one has to wake up early! :)
July 2011 – UK, Brighton
I took a few shots of those deck chairs earlier in the day… but then saw some photographs for sell near the beach… one of them looked very much like this one. I was tempted to buy it, but then I thought… hang on… I could just take a similar one myself!
So here it is :)
I used a very wide apperture to get this blurred effect in the foreground, the only difficulty in that shot was to focus on the chairs while getting them framed correctly. Not so easy when you have to take the shot with your camera on the ground :)
Oh… and that day I finally found out how to use my polorizer!
July 2011 – UK, Brighton
I was first drawn to the grafitti and then noticed the shadow. I liked the different contrasts I could see… the White Skull and the black Shadow, the red rust and the blue sky, and the metal mesh at the top which, to me, almost looked like a saint aureol contrasting with the skull looking more like the devil.
May 2011 – UK, Dungeness
As I walked on the beach of Dungeness I saw that feather, stuck in the pebbles… it looked strange and I wondered how it got there… could it have arrived there naturally? or could it be that another photograph (and there are plenty coming to this beach!) put it there to compose a shot. I don’t like to compose shots, I like to photograph things as they are, so I find it funny if this was placed by someone else… some kind of recycled photo scene… and not against my principles as I did not place that feather there myself, nor ask someone to do it. From a technical point it was actually quite tricky, I wanted to get the feather in focus and the green vegetation blurred as they were being battered by the wind. I could not see what I was focusing on and it took me a good 10 or 15 shots to get that one. What is even better is that I didn’t even have to crop anything! :)
May 2011 – UK, Dungeness
I liked how those fishnet cords looked like worms giving almost an organic feel to the photo. Moment before I took the shot the sun made a brief apparition, but one does not complain of cloudy day in Dungeness, the palce does not need sun to look weirdly stunning :)
May 2011 – UK, Dungeness
Some old train tracks which were coming and leading to nowhere! I prefered this black and whit versino to the colored version as I think it intesify the old aspect of the tracks. I played with the depth of field so although only the front is in focus the back blends in nicely.