Besides the sea

I was awarded with a whole hour and a half today, so I took a stroll with my trusty sony A200 DSLR to catch the beauty of the morning sunshine. Strangely I was drawn to posts signs and fences, which are rather dull and ubiquitous. I don't even know why I feel compelled to venture outside at all. Maybe I should stay inside and play Jenga, like Jacodub. I think it all started when I was molested by a group of bollards who insisted on starting up a conversation. Or maybe I started it. I can't remember who started it but it finished up like this:



The one on the right said I could move along while the others kept watch, which was quite a relief, I can tell you. Well I was quite wary from then on so that's why I took a good close look of this red and white post, who as it happens, was quite friendly and advised me to follow the fence if I wanted to go to the beach. He was up for a snapshot, so I obliged.



Fences, as it happens, are mute. And for good reason.



Signs on the other hand like to converse. Well, more accurately they like to tell you something but aren't interested in discussion. Some of them can be quite persuasive, although I must admit this one didn't tempt me in the slightest.



So I took the stairs down to the beach while the seagulls squawked overhead. Beach being the loose term for sea on one side and land on the other. It's one of those beaches you went to as a kid and ended up a bit depressed because there wasn't any sand and you couldn't swim unless you really wanted your legs to end up looking like flagella. And to be honest there wasn't much there apart from some water, some rocks and a bit of string. Not very inspiring particularly and I might say quite cold being the beginning of February. I ended up just sliding around on some rocks, admiring some graffiti and coming home. I've decided that taking a picture of anything involving rocks and sea is particularly difficult unless you happen to be a dab hand at post processing and HDR. Otherwise they just look like holiday snapshots. Patricsmithphotography knows a good shot when he sees one, have a look there if you want to see a stunning seaside shot to avoid the disappointment of reading all this ramble. You're in for a treat.

In the mean time, I'll chalk that down to experience and stick with the easier stuff. Like posts. Fences. That kind of thing.