Stills

There is always one. So you yell across the beach "Don't move" and someone turns round and says "What did you say?" just as you push the button.

This has that special light that you bottle there, I feel warm and relaxed.
 

This is all a bit too subtle (distant?) for my taste. I'm up on the pier and leaving the photo to the right before I know it.
 

Colin, why do you want to do that?

The pier is infinitely long..........
 

Actually I'm wrong, it is circular and the photographer is at the centre point. Go right, come in on the left............
 

I like this composition and the moody late afternoon appearance. I also like the blurred figure at the waters edge to impart some life in anotherwise static image. The three groups of people all have something unique that brings them to the beach and the timing to catch them with what seems to be just the right amount of space and seperation between them. nice.
 

So does that one figure have 3 legs? Or are there two people there? That questions makes this a bit surreal, as if this was the beginning of an episode of the Twilight Zone.
 

Your use of colour in these beach shots take simple scenes a little higher. However, I tend to find one small aspect that detracts from an almost perfect execution. In this shot its the blurred person. It does not work for me and keeps me focussed too much on it which keeps me from working on the delightful scene going on. The woman leaning back has a gaze in line with the chap washing his feet. This then brings your eye along the horizontal of the pier and all the history and decay thereon. The two subjects walking towards the viewer keep me engaged and form a mirror to my viewing angle and balance the right hand side of the shot. The sky's colour is menacing and keeps me from going out of the top of the shot as there is little interest in the clouds (compared to your other work of this genre). There is plenty going on even though most of the subjects are static which is why that blurred character is not working.
 

I'm very appreciative of the comments here. When I went to take the shot, the "doppelganger" (I had to look it up, a good term for the walking figure) was standing next to the other man, but suddenly turned and walked away as I hit the button. Yet, when I saw it, I felt like Doug, that it added some life and interest. It is good to have other opinions that disagree. Thank you all.

By the way, although it is not "infinitely long" this pier is named Redington Long Pier for good reason. Colin, you could keep going right for quite a distance out over the water. ;-)