I was luck enough to have a spare day between music workshops, so I spent it in Sidmouth, exploring the beach with my pinhole camera. This time I chose to take the monochrome route as it promised to be an overcast day.
I walked the length of the town, spending so long that I saw the tide both recede and come back in again. I really enjoy capturing a sense of movement with my seaside pinhole photos and using black and white film helped me catch the patterns of the waves as they washed across the beach.
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As I set up for one photo I noticed a cormorant perched on the rocks so I worked quickly, hoping it might stay still for long enough to feature in my photo. Fortunately, he or she was in a cooperative mood, although you can only just pick the bird out with my camera’s wide angle of view and the fact that I didn’t dare get any closer for fear of scaring it off!
At the western end of the beach I found lots of rock formations exposed by the receding tide, which brought some foreground interest to my photos. I also discovered some curvaceous pieces of seaweed so I got down really low to capture its sculptural form.
