Thursday, November 01, 2007
an afternoon in late October, Borth
This should set Colin's colour-detection atoms vibrating. Borth is a semi-down-at-heel seaside resort a few miles North of the University town of Aberystwyth, midway up Cardigan Bay. The town is a long street along the beach featuring the worst of Welsh architecture but saved by the railway station bringing working class holiday-makers from Birmingham and Manchester (the line runs behind the one street). However, some life is being injected back into it and a half row of houses on the beach side of the road, which are obviously holiday homes, are being quirkily decorated - more California than Bournemouth. These old railway sleepers are part of the defences against winter storms.
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Not only colour, but now supersize! Small pause whilst I put the monitor on the other side of the room :-)
Should this be titled 'an extremely rare day in Borth regardless of the time of year'?
The red ends up being slightly sinister. Like there should be a message about death and bloodshed. The blue is too unreal for me. I'd go back indoors.
That is quite a zing of color, all right. Sky and water are nearly Caribbean blue. The sand brings it back into place though.
Not sure I would have thought of "death and bloodshed", but I can see where that came from. A bit jarring of a color.
Contrails usually drive me crazy when I photograph nature, but here they work out.
I wonder if it is just too much red? The colors are quite striking, but the red overwhelms the blue sky. And it does feel a bit sinister.
That said, the colors are fantastic, although perhaps that's why they seem overwhelming.
Seems like a bit 'red, white and blue' for us Americans, with the red almost the stripes of the flag. A very graphic image, but trouble with knowing the subject: the detoriating red pilings or the beach vista.
Some very 'at the edge' colours here. There's a lot being bunched up bottom right which balances well with the expanse of water top left. There are competing elements trying to catch my eye and none are strong on their own except the fence up front. It does block your entry to the rest of the shot but the contrails and hidden scenery are just enough to make you jump on over.
Thanks for the comments received. Akikana and Doug wonder what the subject is. My answer to that is that the photo is about the character of Borth. Each of the houses on the edge of the beach has a small yard opening on to the shingle (no two houses the same), and that entry point is marked by the railway sleeper extra groynes; so one can imagine oneself in the shingle territory of the house off to the right and seeing past one's red creation up the beach to the North.
The colours really do grab the attention! They seem super real.
The sleepers seem more to be a 'keep out, this is my space' than a sea defence.
Is this the Fuji?
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Should this be titled 'an extremely rare day in Borth regardless of the time of year'?
The red ends up being slightly sinister. Like there should be a message about death and bloodshed. The blue is too unreal for me. I'd go back indoors.
Not sure I would have thought of "death and bloodshed", but I can see where that came from. A bit jarring of a color.
Contrails usually drive me crazy when I photograph nature, but here they work out.
That said, the colors are fantastic, although perhaps that's why they seem overwhelming.
The sleepers seem more to be a 'keep out, this is my space' than a sea defence.
Is this the Fuji?