Having lived in north Essex for the past 15 years and never having been especially enamoured of its charms, this year I'm going to try and change my mind - if for no other reason than there's no immediate likelihood of a move back to my native north west of England, its hills, mountains and jagged horizons.....
To that end, last weekend, Lara and I took a drive out to a place I'd never even heard of until one of the FW family posted a photo from there. It's called Shingle Street and whoever named it took the job literally. It's a shingle spit that runs along the Suffolk coast - a bit like a miniature Chesil Beach.
The shot I saw on the weekend thread a few weeks ago was a wonderfully bleak study that spoke of the isolation of this spot. Our visit couldn't have been different. A beautifully sunny day, cars everywhere and the cottages weren't anything like as picturesque. However, we struck lucky as there was a boat out to sea and it kept tacking this way and that - allowing me to take these completely different studies from almost identical standpoints but with completely different lighting.
The sunnier / more backlit one seems a bit fogged - which is frustrating in some ways but I actually prefer it.
I'm going to let this thread run as a bit of a personal project but hope you like the opening shots.
(Hasselblad 500c/m with 120mm Makro-Planar and Ilford XP2 Super. Sepia toned in Adobe Lightroom 4)
