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Gunton burned
Monday 1st of May 2017
Not an especially aesthetically appealing day today, weather-wise, but I felt like going for a walk regardless. It’s good to get out of the house now and then, get some fresh air. waves crashing over a groyne So, I headed out to Gunton , in the northern part of Lowestoft, starting near the North Denes caravan park. Along the seafront here there are lots of chunks of brick and concrete to break up…
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Gunton Cliffs
Saturday 15th of April 2017
Had a bit of a headache, and had been sitting indoors all day, so I went for a nice walk around Gunton Cliffs. X-T2, 14/2.8, 23/2, 60/2.4 pink helmet on Goldwing motorbike view south along Whapload Road abandoned plastic doll leg path next to Denes Oval view north along the beach at Gunton concrete cube thing dog running past bush view up the hill at the end of Links Road sunlit caravans on Tingde…
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Short walks on the beach
Thursday 30th of March 2017
Since it was a nice evening, Zoe and I decided to go for a walk on Kessingland beach. Turns out once the sun gets low enough it’s not actually that warm any more, plus the early weeks of pregnancy are quite the obstacle course of nausea. So, not a particularly long walk, but a nice one nonetheless. X-T2, 23/2 tattered red bunting ‘Fresh Eggs’ sign soft shadows on sea wall Zoe beyond some beach gra…
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Kessingland, winter 2
Monday 2nd of January 2017
After my previous outing to Kessingland, whereupon I entirely failed to reach the beach, I decided another visit was in order. I ended up going twice, but the first was a bit of a let-down as the weather was dull and grey. Fortunately the second time was more successful, with lovely low winter sun for the majority of the outing. Fuji X-E1, XF 60/2.4, XF 35/1.4 and XF 14/2.8 beach path over pebbl…
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Kessingland, winter 1
Sunday 18th of December 2016
Although we live fairly close to Kessingland, and have driven past it numerous times on the way to places like Dunwich , I’d never actually gone into the town. Today I decided to rectify that, although I didn’t stay for as long as I’d have liked, so a return visit will be in order. Fuji X-E1, Fuji 14/2.8, 35/1.4 and 60/2.4. London Road salmon-coloured houses railings around a Christmas tree gated…
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Gorleston, a Sunday stroll
Sunday 9th of October 2016
It’s getting a bit wintersome now, with the sun hanging lower in the sky and vanishing over the horizon earlier and earlier. It’s still fairly warm, but soon it won’t be pleasant going out without a coat. It’s a nice time of year, and perhaps a bit melancholic – I mourn, in a minor way, the cheer and brightness of summer, and once again feel a little shame in knowing I didn’t really make the most …
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Pakefield and Kessingland Beach and Cliffs
Monday 22nd of August 2016
Just a bit south of Pakefield beach, heading towards Kessingland, there are some interesting sandstone cliffs that I’d never seen before. I didn’t even know they were there until I decided on the spur of the moment to take a walk along the beach that way. These were taken with a mixture of the Fuji X100, and the Fuji X-E1 with 14mm and 60mm lenses. It’s interesting using the two cameras side by si…
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A walk to Lowestoft
Saturday 30th of July 2016
Continuing the walking theme from last time , Zoe and I walked all the way to Lowestoft town centre and back today, a distance of just under 12 km, and taking us 2 hours 45 minutes. We’re both fans of Pokémon Go, primarily since it provides some pretty good motivation to go out and walk a lot, so naturally we had it active on our phones on the way into town. Alas, location data, full screen brigh…
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Beach boat details
Monday 18th of July 2016
Yesterday the weather was hot and shiny so I went for a walk to Pakefield beach. I hadn’t planned it at the time but it turns out I got a nice selection of detail shots of the various boats. yellow tarpaulin with bugs blue and yellow ropes blue rope and green tarpaulin frayed tarpaulin on wood gunwale frayed tarpaulin on red partially covered rusty wire grid stones on matting several boats on the …
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OCOLOY Week 43
Sunday 24th of January 2016
Bit of a slow week, this one, with no good pictures taken during the most of the week – all but one of this week’s pictures are from my trip to Hunstanton on Saturday. I find it interesting the difference in choice of pictures for that post versus this one; I can’t quite explain it but they seem less… abstract? Prettier? light house and coast guard three black rocks cliff face big square rock …
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Hunstanton beach and cliffs
Saturday 23rd of January 2016
Hunstanton is a town on the west coast of Norfolk. It’s one of the only places in the east of England where you can watch the sun set over the sea, and is home to some interesting red-and-white cliffs. The weather forecast was more promising today than last time, so I decided to drive over to Hunstanton again. The sun was shining almost all the way there, but annoyingly, clouds began to appear no…
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OCOLOY Week 36
Sunday 15th of November 2015
Somewhat chastened by my lack of effort last week, this week I resolved to try harder, resulting in two pre-work bike rides to the beach, and one nice hour-long stroll around north Lowestoft seafront which, despite the generally dull overcast weather, produced plenty of pleasing pictures. It’s certainly somewhere I’ll revisit, particularly on sunnier days. This is the first time in many weeks wher…
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OCOLOY Week 27
Tuesday 15th of September 2015
Quite a local week, this one, as I didn’t really have time to stray far from the house during the day, and the weather was often quite a disincentive to venture further out anyway. Still, there were moments of light, although few enough that I had to use some of the photos I took the previous week to make up the numbers (which allowed by The Rules!). Regarding the last picture: yes, that’s our hou…
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OCOLOY Week 26
Sunday 6th of September 2015
This week I was definitely more active than last – I made a good effort to actually take some photos every day, even if I didn’t always go beyond my back garden. Saturday was perhaps the most ‘adventurous’, as Zoe and I went to Raveningham Country Fair . It was a little more… local than last year’s Heveningham Hall fair , and simply because of the smaller scale we were able to more or less s…
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Fuji 14mm at the beach
Sunday 16th of August 2015
Strictly speaking I shouldn’t be doing this. The rules state that one should only use a single lens for the year, and I chose the Fuji 35mm f/1.4, yet here I am dallying with the 14mm f/2.8. In my defence, I like to think I’ve been photographing for long enough now that maybe I don’t need to stick quite so rigidly to what is essentially a learning exercise. I’m still primarily shooting with the …
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