I wonder if he has just proposed?
A couple kiss on the Cobb, Lyme Regis’s iconic harbour wall. Many writers have been inspired by this landmark, including Jane Austen who featured it in Persuasion and John Fowles in The French Lieutenant’s Woman. The scene where the heroine (played by Meryl Streep in the film) walks to the end of the Cobb during a storm has made its way into movie legend. Perhaps this couple are fans.
I could live by St.Ouen’s beach and have something new to photograph every day for the rest of my life. St.Ouen’s beach is on the West of the Island. The tower silhouetted here is La Rocco, one of the many Martello Towers in Jersey, built as defensive fortifications during the Napoleonic war.
Now we are back from our travels, I am looking forward to catching up with my favourite blogs.
On this trip I have enjoyed a few opportunities to return to my first photographic love, landscapes. There really is nothing like waiting for the light. Time slows down. Senses are heightened to notice the rhythmic wash of waves on the shore, the eerie cry of a solitary gull, the way the light touches the crests of the breakers, the curve of wet rocks at the shore’s edge, the drift of the clouds. How could I have forgotten?
This shot is from my iPhone and not exactly top quality – iPhone4’s camera is good but struggles in low light. The proper shots will have to wait until I get home. But even if none of them prove worthy, the experience was magical.
I promised no bugs today. At about this time three years ago we were enjoying a beautiful week in Seahouses on the coast of Northumberland, possibly the most beautiful, evocative, and atmospheric county I have yet visited in the UK. The island out to sea in this picture is Inner Farne.
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“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”
George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)
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