Cleethorpes Seafront in Winter

[Shaun Haselden]

OK so here is a selection of images from very close to where I live. This is the seafront at Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire taken during the most miserable weather on two different camera systems. One I think is better suited than the other as it is a lot more grungy in its rendition of things, the other is just too clean. These images are also of differing formats with my favourites being 16:9 which is now my preferred. Regarding the seaside, now is my favourite time of the year due to the more atmospheric images and the lack of tourists. Loving it.

 

[Dave Farnes]

That is a fine set of pictures. Looks cold, desolate and bleak.
I doubt the tourist board would want them in their brochures.

 

[Shaun Haselden]

LOL yes having seen the local brochures they appear to be full of summer time colour and smiles. I'll let the photographers who took them be proud of them. Not my kind of thing.

 

[Beth Carter]

i prefer dark and desolate images too. great series.

 

[Shaun Haselden]

i prefer dark and desolate images too. great series.

Beth, yes, there is something dark and intrusive about an overall grey day that just doesn't carry across on a sunny day. I love this kind of photographic image especially when it is slightly tinted to a warm tone.

 

[Shaun Haselden]

A few more digital images from Wednesday 7th February 2018. The heart of winter in this seaside town. Shot using my Nikon D600/MB-D14 battery pack and Nikon 180mm f2.8 AFD lens. Within the nest two months I will have moved further away from this place to a far more rural location but fortunately only a couple of miles from the more remote beaches.

 

[Roshni Patel]

Nice set of shots shared.

 

[Pete Askew]

A fine set there, Shaun and I do like the 'grunge' too. Them there turbines are sneaking up I see! Love the contrast in the sand in the second block.

 

[Shaun Haselden]

Oh Pete, don't get me started on wind turbines. This whole area is an SSSI so I guess nothing is sacred. A mile or so down the coast is a place known as Horseshoe Point that is also an SSSI but it hasn't stopped 'them' from digging a huge trench across the whole beach to put down a cable from a wind farm.