Sunrise on St Ives Bay

Our hotel in St Ives overlooks the beach so a couple of images from the window this morning before going down onto the beacharound 7am. It started overcast allowing some long exposures of the waves in both directions with beautiful green, blue and orange tones. Gradually the sky cleared and, as the sun came up, the colours changed to golden tones.

 

Great Yarmouth

Yarmouth on a sunny out-of-season day was very pleasant with its two piers, quirky public toilets and varied entertainments from donkey rides to the elegant Venetian gardens. The skyline is dominated by the offshore windfarm. I had a go at focus stacking one of the turbines - not sure why one blade appears stationary!!

Coastal Flowers Yarmouth

During our week in Suffolk, I spent a very enjoyable hour or so in the dunes at Yarmouth photographing the flowers, including Yellow-horned Poppies, Devil's Bit Scabious etc. There was a very confiding Meadow Pipit who came to regard me as another feature of the landscape.

Gunton Beach Sunset

For our final evening in Suffolk on Saturday, we visited Gunton beach for the sunset. I was using my Fuji compact (1,2) and Olympus with 12-42 lens (3,4,5) plus I  borrowed Barry's full-spectrum infrared camera(6,7,8,9) .  Late in the evening, the full spectrum camera gave very similar colouring to normal cameras with their infrared etc blocking filters but allowed faster shutterspeeds. Not sure which member of the party was being beamed up in image 9 but we seemed to have our full complement at Breakfast on Sunday (though we couldn't confirm that Ian, who was in self-catering accommodation, was safe).

Southwold Evening Shots

Monday evening after dinner in Southwold, we visited the beach for sunset and the last colour in the reflections and in the sky, not forgetting a few shots of the Pier and Beach huts.