Oh, I'm getting tired of all these beach shots ;)

Only joking, good capture, nice light and shadow and I like the way the sky has come out with the DOF you've chosen.

I really like this one. I keep looking at it thinking a baby in a diaper is going to pop out soon...alas...it hasn't happened yet! j/k! Great photo! The lighting is excellent!

Dave,
The last four or five shots remind me of the reason I keep coming back to your site. Not the beach shots, not the beautiful tones you manage to get in these pictures, or the awesome composition, mainly, it is the originality and the combination of factors that make your images unique. When you fall for what many of us are doing in therms of photoblogging, I long for these style of images that I can only find here.
In my opinion, it is images like "the comfort of structure" that I admire your work for.

eh...^^ one of you tell me why this is such a good shot? The scene isn't balanced, the horizon is dead in the middle, the horizon is not straight, the subject isn't very interesting and seems to ruin a perfectly good beach scene. I mean, I love the pictures on this photo blog and I check it everyday, but this one just doesn't do it for me.

The light was beautiful over the weekend, wasn't it?

I absolutely agree with Kevin.
Usually I like your photos, but this one doesn't do anything for me. I don't find the subject (tire) pleasing or interesting.

You know what, I'm gonna side with Kevin & Sajin. I liked yesterday's much better.

This shot is cool! I love it.

It says to me that this is the "end of the road or journey" for the tire or whatever was riding on it. Didn't like it at first but the more I looked at it the more I liked it and what it made me think of.

yup, I can't understand why you'd put the tyre in the shot. The beach itself is a nicer texture and colour and...
Does make me wish I'd gone for a walk though :)

I love the look of the rocks and the contrast between the natural versus 'unnatural'. Great shot. I mean if garbage is there on the beach it should be 'documented'.

Kevin, Sajin salumacneil, and Chris:
I do not speak for anyone else, in other words my opinion, is just a personal opinion.
I believe there are many ways to see a photograph and admire it. While some prefer to see beautiful nature scenes (for some photographers today's tire ruins the beautiful beach scene), some of us try to look beyond the traditional perspective. Not that one thing is better than the other, but it is just the way you want to convey the image you thought of when you looked through the viewfinder. I, for example, try to distinguish myself as a photographer by showing a point of view many would not think of. It then becomes a refreshing scene for some to look at.
Why did Dave cover the beach scene? Who knows, but without the tire (which I think IS the image) this picture would probably have been just another beach scene. Just a matter of preference, and mine (at least this time) is with a more unique shot.

NIce shot i love the perpective and the horzionline, you have some really nice colors in this shot. Also the detial in the forground is achieve well.

very nice job

I appreciated your points in reply to my comment yesterday, and absolutely agree that you should seek images that challenge conventional viewing. This is a good case in point. It's interesting to see your different 'take' on this scene, and I can't say that I like one better than the other; both show an interesting use of space, but the earlier one had the edge with it's curious ability to affect our sense of ' balance' in a different way...
What I think bugged me about yesterday's was the selective colour more than anything. Considering your opening statement "...originally intended a full colour shot...black and white didn't work..." I think you struggled with it too. It's almost as if you were trying to rescue something from that scene - and you will, on your next visit, or the one after that.
I hope you continue to challenge the conventions, break the rules and experiment with everything. It's what keeps me (and many others) coming back here.

Lovely shot djn - and what makes it for me is the grains of sand on the top left of the tyre. It leads you into the rest of the picture.

This is probably the third time I've come back to this shot today and each time my eyes are drawn to the wet pebbles in the bottom right hand corner.
The colours there are gorgeous, I'd love to see a shot of just them.

Funny, I didn't get any of the things you mentioned abou the photo Dave. That big tire overwhelms the light and sky. I do like it though. The juxtaposition of the beach with the tire which seems at once woefully out of place and not at the same time.

this shot is certainly better than my similar shot;

http://www.tristantom.com/photolog/2005/10/conspicious.html

I love this shot and after seeing John Washington's image today, which offers a similar perspective and composition, I'm inspired to work on these low down angles more myself.

very, very nice.
thanks for sharing your work with us.

The weather has really been beatiful these last days. I'm living in Cardiff and was lucky enough to be able to go to Pembrokeshire this weekend and the light there was beautiful. I wasn't really able to get the colours as vivid as they were though...

Beautiful shot, as usual. I love your beach shots!

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I've missed so much of your shots and going through them now is just amazing, a great and fantastic break from reading work stuff. You inspire me to look at things in a different light. Great job on this one, I totally adore it.

I am undecided on this shot. I think on one side the tones and colours are great, the composition in this rare instance is not what I would go for, but the thing that make it a positive experience at the end must be the mood of the light. There is, to be a bit dramatic, this beautiful natural element of the beach with a horrible old tire in the middle of it, but somehow nature is not rejecting it, but more absorbing it into it's entirety. There is a sadness in the fact that we treat our world so disrespectfully and yet it us who pollute it that at the same time reject it, nature seems to simply absorb it. Ok, so I went a bit melodramatic, but I am touched by the shot in some strange way. I guess we see what we want to see!

I like this one, a lot (and more than the other shot of this subject a few days ago). For me, the lighting makes it, it gives the rubber a nice soft look, plus the DoF is spot on. Great shot :)

Hmmm.....I've got a niggling ( and presumptious, sorry ) urge to fiddle with this picture. The light is lovely. The 'presence ' of the tyre is lovely. DOF, lovely. That sort of fixes your angle, and your lens. But the righthand shadow forces the composition, and the composition ... is just going wrong for me. Something to do with the near shadow, and where the wave line meets the tyre towards the right. Probably the picture I want just wasn't there. So I should shut my trap.

Hmmm, I don't know if I'm a huge fan of this shot. I'm not a fan of the harsh lighting off of the tire, or the composition.

The colors behind the tire are beautiful, very subtle mix of orange and blue.

wow.. simply the best may be..
The pebbles below, the groove on the tyre, the colors, the sea behind, the colrs - everything is perfect...
again - a wonderful shot man !

i LIKE IT, better than the oblique version, posted days before. It seemed then that you were still trying to find one that worked and this is the final successful result,
I like pictures as metaphores, and there is a sense of peace in this tire contemplating the ocean, as if it travelled all the miles to get there, to finally rest, on its side. It does not convey loneliness but serenity, and the late afternoon light, reinforces the idea of peaceful contemplation. PAnoramas, perfect scenery, sunsets are nice enough, but where is the photographer? Cameras, film, technology do all the work nowadays. Here I can see the eye and mind at work, and get the most from your point of view!
nice, thanks,

Thanks everyone. I know this wasn't to everyone's taste but I do enjoy photographing the bits and pieces that get washed up along the shore.

weird... why are the threads of the tire still so new?