by Steve Tanham
Photographically, I’ve been lucky with Bolton-le-Sands. The constantly changing light lends itself to subtle moods, as long as you know where to find the good perspectives.
I time our return drive from visiting my mother’s care home, in Morecambe, to suit what I hope to meet – in terms of light, when we get to the rather weird tidal pools landscape.
Sometimes it works; requiring only experience as to where to stand, relative to the tide and the intense patterns the wind makes on the visible water – be it tidal pool or the full high tide, which is rare.
When it all lines up, it’s great. And Tess loves it, too. She particularly likes the challenge of finding an optimal way across the pools to retrieve the frisbee thrown by her cunning ‘dad’.
An online friend remarked that the shots reminded her of TV images that she had seen of the Romney Marshes in one of Charles Dickens’ tales.
That’s a great mood. More luck than skill but I’ll take it!
©Stephen Tanham 2024
All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax.
Stephen Tanham is a writer-photographer and mystical teacher. He is the founding Director of the Silent Eye, which offers an exciting journey of the soul guided by lessons, inner experience and outer companionship.
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These photos are full of atmosphere…I can see Dickens scenery too. 💜
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Glad you liked them, Willow. Thank you 😊
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☺️☺️☺️💜💜
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Great photos and I’m sure Tess had a good time. I’m trying to remember which Dicken’s adaptation it reminds me of. Perhaps Great Expectations. (the beginning)
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Yes! A good fit. Thanks, Darlene 😊
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Ages since I’ve been there, Steve. And yes, it does have something of Great Expectations about it. Super photographs. I follow a photographer called Henry Turner on Youtube, who lives in Morecambe and who’s done some wonderful work in that area.
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Thanks, Michael. It’s the collie’s favourite place, too. I throw the frisbee across the tidal pools and she has to figure out how to get to it! She loves it.
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