With the tide on its way out, the sky bright and blue, I had great wander at Rissers Beach. I always find those bright and slightly chilly winter outings to the beach are the best. In such conditions, everything always seems fresh, clean and extremely pleasing …
Recently the empire has seen an increase in the number of visits by the local deer. I would say that during the first five years in the house it was extremely rare to see any, perhaps at most one or two on a couple of occasions a year. A few weeks ago, there were eight wandering around at the back of the house, which so far is a domestic record. This afternoon three came to visit. At one point I thought a couple of them were poised to knock at the back door.
It is nice always nice to see them, but I would appreciate their visits so much more, if they could help keep the grass perfectly trimmed during the summer ….
I was on my way to the islands this afternoon in bright sunshine, blue sky with low puffy clouds, and thought that it would be a good opportunity for black and white pics. In addition to the selection of monochrome, I also decided to experiment with my ND1000 Neutral Density Filter, which resulted in exposures of anything between 15 to 30 seconds.
The past few days have been cloudy, cold and for me rather busy, so with today’s bright sunshine, warmer temperatures and not much else on the agenda, I decided to take advantage of it and go for a beach wander at Rissers.
The first thing I noticed upon my arrival was how high the sand was on the beach. I am continually amazed by the significant differences that can occur with the levels of sand on all of my regular wandering beaches. Back in January of this year, I witnessed what was the lowest sand level at Rissers I had ever seen, today it was possibly the highest …
Today’s beach …
On January 19th …
See my blog titled “Low Sand” from January 19th, 2024 by clicking on the image or the link below ~
Below are more of
today’s pics including some of seagull buddy dealing with a very unfortunate crab ….
