Sunset at Oare

Sunset at Oare, August 2013

After a long day at work I took my camera out and wandered about Oare waiting for the sun to start to set. It was blissfully quiet and the local farm hands were working the bails in the fields near St Peter's Church. I captured this sunset with a 50mm lens set to f9.5 on a 60th sec, handheld.

Riccardo Patrese driving a BMW M1 at Goodwood FOS 2013

© 2013 Julian Pepper

Rolling rubber sea

Everything wrong about a picture

This is a shot I took yesterday of Joss Bay near Margate. I'm sharing this photograph because of the frustration yesterday brought with it. The weather was changeable to say the least; if snow had started tumbling from the skies I'd have accepted it.
This picture presents all the failings of landscape which refuses to fall into line: fast-moving sunshine racing across the shot, messy sand, uneven and unbalanced clouds, uneven sky tones, the list goes on.
The point with this upload is to show that sometimes everything's going to go against you and there's not a thing you can do to avoid it. Best to shrug your shoulders and try something different.

I think this location has so much more to offer though. Keen documentary pappers will love the candid portrait opportunities of the surf school and shop. Those interested in graphics will love the flags, signs and lines of perspective to be found all mixed up together. Fans of textures will relish the soft sand, pebbles and concrete on show, not to mention the fabulous cliffs.
It's a wonderful place, Joss Bay. Well worth a visit. I think for best results though, get there early while the sand is still fresh.

Disused notice board

Not that you could really hang a substantial notice from here, but the causeway marking poles at Oare help mark out the gentle twist of the road to recovery and dry land if you're landing your vessel in the midpoint of a tidal shift.

The fine line between bravery and insanity

Fake plastic seas