Ripples In The Sand

     Here's a fairly bleak shot, a beach bereft of sunbathers, a sea without any swimmers, nature at its finest, creating its own patterns and fun in the surf, notice the ridges of sand like long pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, as the water returns to the sea, each is a separate river, and the light creating a nice three dimensional feel to those tiny mountains and valleys, i like the way the clouds mimic what's happening on the beach, wispy patterns, and the two different but equally beautiful blues, the warmer greeny sea blue, and the colder purple sky blue, a lovely peaceful feeling, really therapeutic, i could sit there and watch it for ages.

A Filling Station At Night

     Here's a really clever shot, when i first saw it, i thought it was two pictures on top of each other, it's an elevated shot of a filling station in the late evening, the upper picture shows the late evening sky, with the street lights on, a lovely blue sky and clouds, and then below is the green-ish concrete of the filling station, with car tail-lights, and sandwiched inbetween is the roof of the filling station, i think it's really clever and well spotted, i just like pictures that have two elements competing to be the central point of the picture, neither wins individually, but both win together, it's the blue and green that clash, yet complement each other.

Surfer On A Turquoise Sea

     What an ominous picture, here's a surfer on what looks like an angry broiling sea, i like the turquoise sea in the foreground, it looks like some sort of marble with the white foam, and that dark black cloud hanging in the air above, below the surfer are some very nice reflections, gives the impression of stillness, as things are frozen in time, and above the surfer, some spray is caught in a lovely freeze frame moment, the dark blue in the left hand corner nicely complements the turquoise in the sea, a breathtaking shot.

Dark Clouds & SunRays

     Wow!, what a shot, it actually gives an impression of being shot underwater, and light is filtering down into the depths, that beautiful golden brown colour really makes an wonderful effect [i take it there's probably a colour filter used here], the clouds have this effervescent bright halo around them, and it's just those clouds full of interest and power, dark an ominous at the bottom, but bright and golden towards the top, it's the powerful rays which make the photograph, fanning out in light and dark beams, this shot really makes me feel part of the universe.

Golden Silhouette

     Now here's a really classy shot, i didn't realise how good this really was until i had another look today, it has truly stunning light in it, of course there's some fairly strong filter involved here, but it's a great effect, it looks as though an extra filter was involved in a big portion of the top right hand corner, and a little bit of the top left, makes the clouds there look dark and angry [the reason for the umbrella?], the sunlight is powerful, and gives a nice idea of fanned rays shinning down, the trees on the horizon give the picture a nice sense of scale, it looks hot!, only the bottom foreground is not greatly interesting, but it does frame the picture at the bottom.