MARI'S TRAVELS WITH HER CAMERA

Tag: Sandown

  • Summer was Yesterday

    Summer was yesterday, today reverts to normal English June weather. But click on the image and look there in the distance, two ladies sitting on deckchairs, the wind being deflected by a windbreak. Say what they like, but we’ve got grit in bucketfuls in the UK: it takes more than grey skies and chill winds to put us off sitting on the beach.
    Two ends of the beach, mist coming over both. The right hand side image shows Shanklin on zoom setting viewed from the Pier at Sandown, about 3-4 miles away.

  • Silent Sunday

    The sadness of a seaside resort in lock down

    To link with Words Visual Silent Sunday.

  • An Illustrated Walk on the Beach, Isle of Wight

     

    My new camera, the Sony A6000, has a brilliant inbuilt programme that turns the image from a  basic photograph to one that can isolate one colour, say red or blue, leaving the remainder of the photograph in black & white; changes the image to one that looks like a water-colour with the tints bleeding into each other; and, my favourite, illustration which alters the photograph miraculously so that it looks like a graphic illustration.  It is tempting to embark on designing a comic strip, or to illustrate an article with an illustration instead of an image.

    Here I give you a few samples of Illustration, taken on a walk along my local beach the other day, a cold wintry day but with a blue sky lighting the day.  I hope they reproduce in the blog as they do on my screen, best viewed very large.

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    Beach and Cliffs with People, Sandown, Isle of Wight

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    Fishing Boat on Horizon at Sandown, Isle of Wight

    By the Pier a Young Man Kicks a Football and Children Play in the Sand, at Sandown, IoW on a wintry day.
    By the Pier a young lad kicks a football and two children play in the sand, at Sandown, IOW, on a wintry day.

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    Blue skies, calm(ish) waters with the White Cliffs of Culver at Sandown, Isle of Wight.