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I always think that you haven't really seen a place until you go to take pictures, alone and with nothing else to do there. A visit with friends or family has way too many distractions and they aren't going to be amused with waiting hours so I can have a good look at the cliffs!  So yesterday I went down to the beach at Beachy Head for the first time proper, to take pictures, and got very lucky with the light. It takes some planning to get a low tide and decent light, and it's a good idea to leave before it...

NEW pictures - one-off non-edtioned signed prints, coming soon.....

  I took the opportunity of a full moon on New Years Day to go out onto the dark beach at Broomhill Sands/Jurys Gap end of Camber last night. The water that drains off the beach causes these rivulets and this was the first time I had shot them by moonlight. Luckily there was a bit of soft cloud to spread the moonlight into a larger softer illumination. I have found that clear sky moon shots look more or less like daylight when shot with long exposures on modern cameras. So the moving cloud and the dark distance makes it clear this in moonilight and...

Here's our window looking all Christmassey, and a brand new framed print in the window. Shot a few weeks ago, during really strong winds on Camber. The wind is tricky to photograph and I was hoping to get these lines that high winds etch across the sand and water. Probably easiest to see them in our front page slideshow rather than here. The wind was intense, the tripod was almost useless in the buffeting. At one point a rain shower passed over, with the rain more or less horizontal to the ground, and I just had to turn my back on the scene...