Saltwick Bay & Nab

This is a lovely little bay full of details to shoot...and Periwinkles, untold millions of them...





Saltwick Bay & Nab, Yorkshire '11

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I like your composition, Paul. And the b/w conversion.

Very nice composition, Paul.

Do you not go in for more rectangular frames? I seem to recall all your images being square or close to square. In fact this is one of your least square ones. Though my memory could be playing tricks on me.

A very nice image. This is a great guide for any other members thinking of visiting. Saltwick bay.link

To my eye the picture would also work cropped to below the base of the cliffs. I find the cliffs a bit distracting, but hey, its still a lovely shot

regards
Bernard

That's a really useful guide Snappychappy, makes me want to go back again.

Paul, another great shot - presumably I was asleep in the caravan when you took it....

Thanks for looking and commenting, guys.

Mhuni, I do 3:2 and 4:3 images, but it depends on what I shoot really. A lot of abstract images I shoot with a 1:1 aspect/ crop in mind, and I try to make that a possibility when I take the picture. This is what i'm doing with my 'Surveyed Presence' project...

Bernard, you find the cliffs distracting? Hmmm, for me, one of the points in shooting the image was the cliffs and they're analogy with the rocks in the foreground, both encroaching into the image on different planes.

Karl...yep, you were asleep mate...

I love the shot and the framing you've used - it is a very stable shot with the visual weight of the cliffs nicely balancing the foreground rocky promontory. The pool gives it depth with the reflection, and the rock in the pool makes it more pooly.

Thanks for your comment, Karma'.

With cliff seems to work better Paul, it gives it gravitas (if that's the word?).

Excellent shot!

I accept I'm the "odd" one here
I just saw two excellent pics, the top section with the cliffs and the bottom section, the rock layer and reflective pool.

regards
Bernard

Agreed, and no questions Bernard that they are two good pics - it might just be one of those situations where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts .

very nice shot!!!!

Thanks all.

Bernard, Karma and i-Berg have summed it up really. The contrasting forms of the rocks and cliffs are key too.
I know what you mean though.