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Got tired of not seeing anyone for a few days, so popped out to take a photo. The tide was in at Mevagissey, which is picturesque on a setting sun. The Emits are in full flood, it was though a pleasant half hour spent by the sea. I took a photo of an insane looking sausage dog, I did not realise...

Cotton pilchard nets. . .

Sigma Dp1 M A bit more of the same. .

Not a local local but arrive in Mevagissey a few years back and runs out with a few pots to catch Lobsters and crabs. There is a lobster fishery in Cornwall which now breeds and releases small lobsters into the sea around its coastline. It does mean a lot of undersize lobsters are caught, but...

It was this morning this morning, other times it will be a while ago. My usual social documenting of a small fishing community at Mevagissey. Putting the repaired trawl aboard prior to taking on ice and going to sea. ANDREW & JAMES by JULIAN DE COURCY, on Flickr

Trawl boards are heavy, heavier than all of us here can lift. Why would we wish to? No idea. Anyway they get hauled through the water , spreading the mouth of the trawl wide, wide like a mouth that gulps beer when the thirst is first quenched after a stroll along Huntington beach, the water is...

Olypmpus E-M5 75mm f1.8 Mooring chain Newquay harbour. .

Taken some time ago. Oly E-M5 12-50mm kit lens. . DOWN PIPE by JULIAN de Courcy, on Flickr

dp1m In good company of friends from the frozen north on Sunday we I found ourselves in the land of the giants. This is the old watch house on the Dodman point. Unused now. It is small yet has a fire place and of course you cannot see the sea from this spot today as the small trees are...

The slaughter has begun and many are looking forward to the large catches of pilchards over this coming winter. This boat I was told had caught 4 to 5 tons the previous evening. The purse seine's will continue until at least January or until the oil content of the fish falls below the...

Siggy Dp3 no wobble. .

Siggy Merlin Dp1 & shaky hands. f5.6 2.5 sec iso 100 .

When nets have too much weed caught up in them they dont work well and lie on the sea bed. So they need to come ashore and the weed shaken out, along with some chit chat. .

Siggy Dp1 wobble with a teeny tiny touch of twirl .

Dp1 Merrill .

Siggy Dp1m and some wobble .

Dp1m .

Oly the octopus E-M5 after listening to some Funk .

Siggy Dp1m 10 stop ND filter, several seconds. .

Siggy Dp1 ten stop ND filter .