Framedlight

While I was in Covehythe I took some pictures of the church using an infrared filter on the front of my Fuji XE1 with its 17-55mm lens. With this lens, although exposure times were not too long, I got a hotspot in the centre of the frame, which I have had to remove in photoshop, not totally successfully. This seems to be a function of using autofocus zoom lenses for infrared.The last picture, taken from the footpath, was not photographed on the Fuji but on the D800E using the 24-70mm lens which did not give me such a pronounced hotspot. I have left some of the colour in this one, rather than converting to monochrome. I rather like the flat colours and simplistic nature of this photograph.

I was going to an exhibition in Suffolk so decided to combine it with a trip to Benacre beach. This is on a part of the coast that is being washed into the sea. There used to be some dead trees that stood on the shoreline and were a magnet for photographers and I wanted to see of they were still there after the ravages of this winter. To get to the beach you park in Covehythe outside the church which is attractive on its own. You then walk down the road, past the signs saying 'danger do not enter' and out on to the crumbling tarmac of the road that now drops off the end of the cliff. When you get as far down the road as you can you turn left on to the field past the signs telling you not to, and out to a footpath which roughly skirts the cliff. I say roughly as it is now missing in places and it is necessary to divert over the crop to avoid plunging over the edge. Passing a nature reserve which still had bluebells out when I was there at the beginning of May you descend down t...