A vibrant sunset tempted us onto the beach last night with the colour in the clouds reflected on the wet sand giving liquid gold hues towards the west and soft pastel shades out to sea. I decided on multiple exposures combining movement of the camera at slow shutterspeeds with more static shots and very pleased with the results. Debs and Jim are taking opposite views while Ian is in all places at once covering every aspect of the subject as always. Otherwise it was playing with colours and shapes and movement.
I returned to Hunstanton beach on Monday morning before heading home and spent a couple of hours in beautiful light with thousands and thousands of birds as subjects. The tide was going out revealing the extensive mussel beds and the tidal sands full of invertebrate food. Oystercatchers were the most numerous so here some cameos of this striking bird. The distant shot was part of a failed attempt to focus stack the huge flocks!
The colony of Little Terns at Winterton looks to have done OK this year though there are young yet to fledge and the present very windy weather presents a challenge to learning to fly and fish. The temperature and rough seas were more reminiscent of a day there in November than July. The Little terns looked so small against the giant waves and even the seals were dwarfed by the rollers. Juvenile Terns and Ringed plovers hunkered down in the sand to brave out the winds'
