Away to the coast

So a long weekend comes to an end. Staying at the Haven in Caister, just up the coast from Great Yarmouth which is a Martin Parr kinda town i feel. The beach right next to the camp showed close views of a seal in what can only be described as a force 40000 gale!!! The camera fell over twice and it was almost impossible to get a sharp image as the wind blew dogs and dog walkers past at an alarming rate. A quick trip to Sheringham amazed me with a walk by flock of Turnstones actually on the main road - follow this with Brent Geese, Gannets, Little Gulls, Knot, Curlew, Lapwings in flooded fields ( i thought that was a long gone tradition ) and it almost restored hope.

Caister Beach

These are the gates to the camp site from the beach

Apparently it has a Little Tern colony during the Summer

Storm chasing

Well the plan was to go back to Epsom race course and catch some cloud movement over the grandstand. So i was gutted to pull up just as a huge storm covered the sky in moody grey cloud and persuaded me not to get out of the car. So where to go? I decided back to Ranmore to photograph the lych gate at St Barnabas. It gets harder to find churches that aren't flood lit these days but this is one that stays nice and dark. So 70 second exposures and see what happens.

St Barnabas lych gate

c 1859

104 sec @ f22 iso 320

73.0 sec @ f22 iso 320

72.0 sec @ f22 iso 320

All taken with a canon 5d and a 17-40mm f4 at 17mm and me running about with a torch filling in the blanks on the lych gate.

A chilly day

Today was the first truly chilly day of the Autumn. Standing on Ranmore common was a struggle, enlivened by a couple of Raven that were resisting all encouragement from the local Crows to leave the area. Then a quick stop at Epsom race course for a coffee - skies were empty.

The quest still goes on to get a blurry look from the camera, today the light was to bright and a 30 second exposure wasn't making much of a blur.

Ooh, erm, not sure which way to look!!

Took a trip down to Ockham Common this morning. Wanted to try out a new filter on the camera. If you're wondering about the blog title, type ' Ockham Common ' into google!! Wish i had. Anyway some pics of the trees.

This one seems to show the 'Ockham Ghost' walking towards me!!