Forgot to take my tripod

So this is what happens when you forget to take your tripod with you. Camera on pebbles.



But that's OK... you can always crop in for a detail.



I love the way the water looks like mist. Must remember to take more long exposures by the sea!

Afternoon at the beach

Just got back from a lovely hour and a half on the beach.



As we arrived at Tide Mills, rain clouds were just arriving from inland and heading towards the sea, so we waited in the car for about 15 minutes for them to pass before we walked to the beach.



At the beach we met Max! Zebedee hadn't seen Max for months and months...



...but they picked up right where they left. Best friends. :-)



Remember last time I pictured these two together? Z has grown a bit since then.



A couple more shots of the beach.

West.



East.

Phew!

I only realised afterwards that I hadn't taken any photos all day Saturday. But fear not! I did actually take some photos on Saturday... I just took them very early in the morning on our way back from Northern Lights.



So I'm still keeping up with the 'photo a day'...

Long time no sea

I haven't taken any photos at Newhaven beach for weeks, if not months. This has to change, obviously. Today I went to have a quick look at the sea, but only after the sun had already set. I will go back soon!

Canon 50mm

I've hardly used my Canon 50mm lens. Today I took it (and only it) with me to the beach. I found out that composing with a prime lens is a challenge. OK, it hardly should have come as a surprise. I knew it, but today I really felt it in practise for the first time (while cursing that I didn't have any other lens with me).









Something Zebedee found and played with...


(other things he found and played with or ATE today: a dead dogfish, a shoe, a piece of car tyre, a dead bird, and a myriad of other things I missed, no doubt)



I wished that I had the wide angle with me so that I could have captured all the beautiful sky.... with the 50mm I could only get some unremarkable small parts of it.






Well, it was lovely to be by the sea nevertheless. I need a lot more practise with this lens.

Pebble beach

Because I have to restrict Zebedee's exercise to "normal" walking and a little running (no playing with other dogs, no chasing bunnies nor squirrels), I decided to go for a walk by the sea this morning. Click on the image to see a bigger version.



I may have to use this place for walks for the next four weeks. Not that I'm complaining!

In the evening we went back to the beach.






It was low tide, and Zebedee was excited about the sandy beach. (The sand part is only exposed during low tide - other times we only have pebble beaches in this part of the English south coast.)