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The day started with a walk amongst autumn leaves in Stanmer Park.












In the evening we went up in town to see and hear [em], which is a fantastic, young jazz trio of Michael Wollny (piano), Eva Kruse (bass) and Eric Schaeffer (drums), all from Berlin. I may have said this once or twice before during this year, but this was the best gig I've been to this year!! This trio's recordings are fantastic, but they are even more fantastic live, which is not always the case with bands. All three are brilliant musicians - virtuosos - and they play together so tightly you can here them go >PING!< even when they are not making a sound. What a fantastic gig, what a fantastic evening.

Castles Scotney and Bodiam

The weather was nothing special and we decided to catch two castles with one drive. First we arrived at Scotney Castle, only to find that dogs were not allowed in the grounds at all - only in the surrounding estate. So we ended up having a walk in the fields around the castle, but got to see part of the castle, too.



I wonder if I've ever mentioned that I like trees? ;-)









...and sometimes things that live near trees.



After a molto delizioso lunch at The White Horse en route...



...we arrived at Bodiam Castle. It was getting dark, but we snapped a few photos with high ISO.















I don't really understand why I haven't been to see Bodiam Castle before - it is beautiful! I will definitely go back with my tripod at the first opportunity.

Robin

The sea was silver today.



While the puppy played, I took photos of some song birds. The robins were the bravest ones to stay near enough for me to take a photo, unlike all the other species that flew away immediately when they saw that there was a hyper puppy around.

More wind

It's not as windy as yesterday, but there were some spray of water by the lighthouse still.

It's windy

Gale-force winds, apparently. Should be calming down by the afternoon. I went to see the view from Castle Hill this morning while it was still windy and high tide.

Tara and Lee

Had a great time with Tara and Lee yesterday. I took some photos of them before dinner... lot of fun to photograph, these two!






Today has been reserved for recovery.

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.