Fascination with the edge

Now we are getting to the silly season. The tourists have flocked to the beach and we locals cannot get near, so early mornings and late nights rule and not due to the sunrise and sunset times. That is why I love inclement weather.

I love the effect the backlit rain has in this image.

The other alternative is to incorporate people into the coastal shots, but not being too keen on portraiture I like to find a way of minimalising the human element. This has been the mainstay of my beach project, depicting man's use of the beach. In many of these shot I try to silhouette the people so they are not identifiable.

The above image was taken with a 'normal' lens ie a 24-105LIS. This has recently been unusual for me as for the last 2 months I have almost uniformly used a Lensbaby - the Composer and the plastic or single glass lens. I shall post on the Lensbaby system on another occasion in the future.