Staithes

Hello Colin.

 

Another great shot, and one with weather that appears seasonally appropriate!

 

Fond regards, Nick.

This is lovely, Colin, I love what you do with the wide angle and as if often happens with your photos, I see both Turner and Constable in the choice of composition, in the skies you capture.

Another wonderful scene with wonderful light. The vignetting effect on the sky looks really cool here. I noticed in your other shots that the boats seem to balance in shallow water. Is it the tide or just my perception fooling me? Lucky you to like the rain and the dull wheather, and to create all those magical photos of it! The rest of us huddle inside and trade our lenses for flashes at this time of year :)

Colin, your work with the wide angle lens and the ND grad filter is inspiring. Very nice image.

I like how all of the lines converge somewhere to the right of the middle of the image. A bit too much sky above the horizon for my taste, but that's a nit pick. The buildings look all crowded up around the bottom of the cliffs...

Thanks Nick, Paula, Ken, Camilla and Lou Ann!

 

Nick - this was summer!

 

Paula, I am honoured to be mentioned in the same sentence as Constable and Turner who are two heroes of mine.

 

Camilla, the tide was still going down when I took this but would have filled the harbour and floated the boats at high tide. I admit I enjoy taking pictures in bad weather. Lucky I live in UK, eh?

 

Lou Ann, the whole village sits in a little area of land with cliffs all round. I like having a lot of sky in landscape shots as a good sky seems to add so much feeling to the shot.

Very Nicely done.

I have been once in the south of England, by sailboat, was really surprised by the difference in water level by tides. Nice in triangle build landscape, mistical atmosphere

Thanks Baldur and mike.

 

mike ok I must change that coffee drinking shot! The tide comes down the east coast of England and goes on up the west coast of Holland so it must go up and down on your coast too.:-) regards Colin

Again I have the pleasure of enjoying fully an exceptional image of yours, dear friend. This one is out of the ordinary. One of your very best. takes me back to my native Galicia in northwestern Spain.

I've been travelling around Spain a lot, and still are (today in Valencia). appily this hotel is well equipped Internetwise.

Would you believe that they stole my whole photographic bag from the closet of my hotel room? Happily the hotel's insurance is taking care and I have plenty of good photo.net friends and now I travel with two bags full-o-cameras and lenses... lent by my friends.

Have tens of rolls of slides waiting for the postprocessing (scanning and digital darkroom).

Alberto, I am sorry to hear about your camera bag going missing - such an experience must leave a bad feeling. I think though that will be made for by the generosity of your friends. Did you lose any exposed film? I trust the hotel's insurance will cover your loss and maybe you can take the opportunity to buy the camera you have always wanted! Meanwhile I hope you enjoy your travels and I look forward to seeing the results. regards - Colin

Colin, I could get lost in this scene--or your entire folder, for that matter.

 

I also am struck by the tidal range here. I had no idea that it was that great.

 

--Lannie

Thanks Lannie. The tidal range varies a lot around the UK coast but here at Staithes it is typically 4 to 5 metres. This was still on its way out but not quickly enough to let me walk to the boats.

nice wide angle again, moody and classical composition, waiting for the tide to rise and the weather to clear... sky is wonderful!

Your right there, we have tides too, but not that much difference on our coast. Maybe a metre of 3 all together. (But your English are so extreme;~))) Yours, Mike

Thanks Becky, thanks mike!

 

mike - noooooo, we English are very moderate really its those Canadians who are extreme. The world's highest tidal range is in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, which can be 16 metres while here we only manage a pathetic 15 metres in the River Severn estuary (but you can surf the tidal wave there). Sorry about the information overload but my work is coastal flood defence!

 

regards and how are you doing? Colin

Wonderful painting-like picture Colin. I don't like rain, but in this shot I really love it. Can't get enough of looking at this little juwel full of atmosphere!

 

Greetings, Ada:)

Beautiful shot. I think the fog and rain make it....but I would love to be there on a sunny day!

Excellent work Colin! This is the very definition of artistic photography. Wonderful to look at, surely there is a market for prints. Btw, you asked the distance from lens to butterfly using the 70-200mm f4L lens, I think it was about 1.5m. You are correct, that is a great lens. Happy Hollidays!

Its got everything going for it. Up to your usual high standard.Nice work.

Time for a new camera perhaps? :o)

Happy New Year, Cheers~ Iren

Thanks everyone. Iren - You guessed it- I'm thinking about a Canon 5D!