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Throwback Thursday #5

9th May 2018

David J. Nightingale

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This image was shot during a winter’s walk along St. Annes beach with a friend but, despite being one of my all-time favourite beachcoming shots, it almost didn’t happen.

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[This image was first published on chromasia on December 28th, 2005]

Up until I took this image all my beachcombing shots were of items I found on the beach, as I found them – washed up flip-flops, shoes, water bottles, tyres, cans, shells, and various other bits of flotsam and jetsam. It wasn’t a rule, but it seemed to me that shooting things as I found them was more authentic than staging the scene in some way, and up until this point it hadn’t been an issue.

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In this instance though we had a problem. We found a really photogenic TV stuck in a sand dune and no matter what we tried we couldn’t get a decent shot. The light was wrong, and the background was boring. So after a bit of deliberation we decided to move it a few yards down the beach.

Everything was looking good, right up until the point I tried to take a shot: my battery had died. John (the friend I mentioned above) had taken quite a few shots by this point, and as we’d been walking for hours, it was late, we were hungry and so on, I almost gave up …

“John, can I borrow your camera?”

We swapped CF cards, I took a bunch of shots, and then we wandered home. I can’t remember a single other thing we shot that day, but I do remember the pleasure I felt when I opened this RAW file – it was definitely worth the effort.

 

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  1. Carlos Garcia says

    10th May 2018 at 1:20 pm

    Well… this takes me back a ways! Your beachcombing images are still among my favorites… it’s where I was inspired back to taking photographs. Thanks for sharing.

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    • David J. Nightingale says

      10th May 2018 at 1:30 pm

      Thanks Carlos. And yep, it was quite a while ago now. It’s amazing how quickly the time has passed.

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      • Carlos Garcia says

        10th May 2018 at 1:36 pm

        It has been so amazing and fun to see your family grow! Hope you are all well. Coming over to this side of the pond any time soon? 🙂

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        • David J. Nightingale says

          10th May 2018 at 1:47 pm

          Yes, thanks, we’re all good hear. And it would be great to head over the pond, but I don’t think it’s going to happen any time soon. It’s on the list though, so you never know 🙂

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          • Carlos Garcia says

            10th May 2018 at 1:52 pm

            And Blackpool is on my list.

          • David J. Nightingale says

            10th May 2018 at 5:28 pm

            🙂

  2. Simpliv says

    7th November 2018 at 4:20 am

    Nice pics.wow.Worth remembering…

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