Sunday, March 11, 2007
South England Coast
Same day as Dungeness, a bit later, we were driving along the coast.
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I'm reminded of the song Little Boxes, which once gave me a nightmare that caused me to wakeup denying that I was made of Ticky-Tacky.
What are those boxes? What are they for? Why are they all lined up? Does the line of them extend forever? What do they portend under such a dramatic sky?
What I like is the black and white and the playing of the beach huts against the dramatic sky. Normally this plays as a slight cliche in colour but here the geometry strongly calls for the questions Matt asks to be answered. Very good detail of the asphalted roof.
There's definitely some weather brewing out in the channel!
Do other countries have beach huts?
I did get some funny comments showing a lack of understanding on a picture of some huts that I posted.
I love the dramatic sky which emphasises the smallness of the huts. The tonal range of the image is superb.
I've never seen beach huts in the US, but for me the 'beach' means Lake Michigan, so perhaps there are beach huts somewhere.
I was intriqued by the comments on beach huts -- so spent some time looking them up. In Florida we do have what we call beach huts, but they are not anything like this. Ours would be something with a thatched roof, maybe not even enclosed, and it would contain some kind of a concession, like renting towels and beach chairs, selling food, or a bar to buy drinks -- think tiki hut.
English beach huts seem to be quite a different animal, and looking at this, and also what I found online, they are obviously much more photogenic. Interesting how they are so much alike and yet each has a bit different character.
The dramatic sky helps take this beyond most of the online images I found, which seemed more what I'd call "cute". It also makes me think of the huts as shelter -- how it might be to sit inside to watch the sea during a storm.
Beach huts - a sure sign that the sand is better than the weather.
I can imagine that a good print of this would be a sumptuous thing.
As others have said, this is not the usual snappy treatment of this subject. The tones, the geometry and the sky all push it far above that.
What I don't feel though is involved. Like with the many pictures of Antelope Canyon in the American South West, I am struggling to look through the tones to the subject. The photographness, if you will, gets in the way.
Can a photograph be too perfect?
Not seen beach huts on the Japanese coastline though I'm sure with the right marketing you may have a viable product to sell.
Everything is vanishing to that lower left hand point - the huts and the clouds scudding that way. Not sure if there are two many huts trying to vie for my attention as the first three in line have all I need. They also work well then with the tone changes in the clouds above them.
This is very much more an English beach scene in my eye than your previous post which alluded more to open plains.
I'm curious as to what the single tone below the clouds and above the huts is - I assume it's the sea?
Seen a lot of similar shots in my time and they all have been in colour (people have a penchant for painting these is nice bright primary colours). It most certainly works in B&W and more so as you don't have those bright colours to add impact to the viewers experience.
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What are those boxes? What are they for? Why are they all lined up? Does the line of them extend forever? What do they portend under such a dramatic sky?
There's definitely some weather brewing out in the channel!
I did get some funny comments showing a lack of understanding on a picture of some huts that I posted.
I love the dramatic sky which emphasises the smallness of the huts. The tonal range of the image is superb.
English beach huts seem to be quite a different animal, and looking at this, and also what I found online, they are obviously much more photogenic. Interesting how they are so much alike and yet each has a bit different character.
The dramatic sky helps take this beyond most of the online images I found, which seemed more what I'd call "cute". It also makes me think of the huts as shelter -- how it might be to sit inside to watch the sea during a storm.
I can imagine that a good print of this would be a sumptuous thing.
As others have said, this is not the usual snappy treatment of this subject. The tones, the geometry and the sky all push it far above that.
What I don't feel though is involved. Like with the many pictures of Antelope Canyon in the American South West, I am struggling to look through the tones to the subject. The photographness, if you will, gets in the way.
Can a photograph be too perfect?
Everything is vanishing to that lower left hand point - the huts and the clouds scudding that way. Not sure if there are two many huts trying to vie for my attention as the first three in line have all I need. They also work well then with the tone changes in the clouds above them.
This is very much more an English beach scene in my eye than your previous post which alluded more to open plains.
I'm curious as to what the single tone below the clouds and above the huts is - I assume it's the sea?
Seen a lot of similar shots in my time and they all have been in colour (people have a penchant for painting these is nice bright primary colours). It most certainly works in B&W and more so as you don't have those bright colours to add impact to the viewers experience.