Stills

You do like these low viewpoints :-)

Without the orange (imagine this in monochrome) this would just be a trick photo. As it is, it is a good 'portrait' of the bouy/float. Wherever they are they intrude.
 

You do like these low viewpoints :-)

The low view point was motivated by wanting to give another impression of Perthgain having seen John's images. I have never been able to take an image of a lobster pot that I liked and looking down on them my images look boring, ugly, untidy. This view point drew together the pot, quay, harbour buildings and the rest of Porthgain in a way that gave a good feel for the place.
 

The orange float does try to take over the image, but everything around it works beautifully and, as you say, gives a good feel for the place.

I see the orange ball as sort of a pivot point -- look at the ropes, look back, look at the buildings, look back, look at the sky, look back again, and so on. A different way of viewing a scene like this, and I'm not sure yet how I feel about it, but it is not without interest.
 

It is an interesting viewpoint and serves to highlight the important artefacts of the harbour and include the structure associated with the mining to the right. I like the shadow from the lobster pot along with the tangle of ropes. I can understand what has been said about the float but it never crossed my mind as being anything other than a good way of representing it; but in terms of colour, it helps to point up the blue of the sky. I think that the main strength of the picture, though, is the way the old warehouse across the entrance manages to impose itself on the picture with the structure on the right balancing the line from the float to the street of cottages.

The day we last went in January was an ISO 400/800 day!
 

This is another of those images that the more often I come back to look at it, the more I fine and the more I like it.
 

That orange ball sure does hog the picture. Not that I've got any complaint with that as the rest of the colouring is quite muted. The messy tangle up front is complimented with the seemingly well kept background. Also there is just enough borderline detail in that right hand shadow to add a touch of danger.

The path to the left leads my eye well in to the picture but I'm finding the background just a little too far in the background. Therefore I keep returning to that orange ball.