Fascinating landscape, well recorded. Paul
On Nov 30, 2011, at 3:53 AM, David Mann wrote: > Three photos I took on Monday, the day after I'd taken the rail trail photos. > We'd spent the night in Little River and took our time travelling home (it's > only about 55km). > > http://www.multi.net.nz/birdlings-flat/ > > Birdlings Flat is a stone beach at the base of Kaitorete Spit, between Lake > Ellesmere and the Pacific Ocean. We used to occasionally spend the day here > as kids, just running around doing kid stuff in the sun. > > The surf here is very dangerous and swimming is prohibited. I think the > beach drops off very steeply as waves seem to crash suddenly out of nowhere, > and it looked as if the currents may have been vicious. > > But it's a wonderful place to just sit on the beach watching and listening to > the waves. There's plenty of photographic opportunity available even though > it looks so desolate, but the desolation is what attracts me to the place. > Also stone beaches are pretty unusual around here. > > These are cellphone pics so please don't judge them too much on > technicalities. The third photo suffered greatly from all that stone detail > causing jpg artifacts which made the hill and sea look plasticky. Serves me > right for not bringing the K10D :( > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
