Framedlight

The next and last morning we left at 6.00am again to try for another sunrise at Pett Level. This time dawn was a much gentler occasion and the sky soon became overcast again. We went back to the hotel for breakfast, where I noticed that a lot more people were having the 'full English' rather than the abstemious continental breakfast. There was a little conference room which we used for some image reviews and discussion before going out for the final outing of the day. Back to another set of groynes on the beach to obtain some different compositions. We finally all went our separate ways around 3.30pm. It had been a very well organised workshop with a good mix of locations, and a little classwork stuff with image discussion which is always very useful. Lizzie and Alex did a good job of coping with a wide range of experience within our small group. But first just a couple of views from the hotel itself, The Lodge at Winchelsea and then down to some more groynes. ...

Following on from sunrise we went back to the hotel for breakfast. Kippers were on the menu so I chose those. They brought 3. I manfully struggled through 2 but the third was a kipper too far. Next we were driven to Fairfield Church, which lies in the middle of a field with a stream flowing in front  of it. This is a much photographed location and I didn't do much more than the normal viewpoint. The first being a long exposure and the next two using a tilt and shift lens to make first a panorama and then a tilted version to get everything front to back in focus at f/8 And next Dungeness. I have been here a couple of times before, the last around 3 years ago and I was saddened to see that one of the huts had fallen down and things were looking rather cleaned up. It may have been that gales have swept the lighter detritus off of the shingle. I know that three of the pictures below don't look particularly 'cleared up'. It...