Reclamation

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So after quite a bit of colour recently, time for a return to my real passion - what my friends call my apocalyptic photography.

 

As always there's a little bit of a story to this photograph. For quite some time I wanted to photograph this but haven't had chance to get to this particular beach (and there's no dogs allowed which is a problem as I usually take Zack with me when I'm out). As it happens though, when I got there 'this' turned out not to be what I actually thought it was.

 

I'd seen some time ago an image that I thought was some kind of double groyne with circular posts. I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted to shoot when I eventually got there at the right tide. As it happens, when I got there I couldn't find the groyne but did find this outlet pipe covered in seaweed. It took me a short while to realise this is what I was looking for - you can see towards the centre of shot the pattern of two posts side by side. So always happy to adjust, I changed the shot I had in mind and ended up with this. I was also disappointed at the time that there was a dirty great fishing boat right in line of the shot, only to get home and decide that it's actually a really nice feature. What do I know?

 

Out of interest, for anyone who knows anything about seaweed - is it likely that the seaweed on this pipe will die down during a certain season? Wondering whether it's worth a revisit later in the year to get the shot I originally envisioned.

 

Shot details

Canon 600D (T3i/Kiss X5)

Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 EF-S USM @ 16mm

Lee Big Stopper

Lee Filters 0.9 Soft Grad ND

ISO 100

175 second exposure @ f9

Photoshop CS6 & Silver Efex 2

 

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