The Beach
So being an unemployed bum, for the next week anyway, I woke up yesterday morning trying to think of someway to fill my day that did not involve Oprah, Tricia or any other ‘My life it shit, how bout yours?’ merchants. Anyway I took a wander up to the village, and then since it was a beautiful day (okay the MORNING was nice, the thunderstorms didn’t start until I was well safe at cozy back at home) and since I’d thrown my camera in my bag on the way out the door I wandered down to the beach. It’s a funny thing living in the suburbs, I had completely forgotten that the beach is a five minute walk away from my parents front door.
The sun was shining and the wind that whipped around the houses and blew dust in my eyes seemed much gentler down on the shore, so I loaded up the camera with black and white film and wandered slowly, snapping anything interesting that I saw. I like shooting in black and white because you have to think a little bit more about the shot. With b&w it’s more about shape, texture and contrast. Especially in the sunshine, generally I’d shoot b&w on overcast days as you don’t have to concern yourself with the high contrast of sun versus shadow. But I think (hope) I got a few usable shots yesterday. Anyway I wandered* past the ‘Baywatch’ babes shack where two rather unathletic looking people were lazing about in the sun. I was almost hoping someone would get into trouble to see what the two of them would do as they didn’t seem likely heroes. A bit further down the beach a Mother and her children were splashing about in the water. As I passed them I heard her shout at the kids.
‘Ahh now you’ve gotten all wet, that’s exactly what I didn’t want to have happen!’
Hmmm, perhaps you shouldn’t have brought them to the beach then luv?
*I’m too lazy to think or take a look at thesaurus.com so apologies for the overuse of the word ‘wandered’ in this post.
