Critique Welcomed Making Tracks

[Chris Dodkin]

Someone has been terraforming my local beach - I went today for the first time in weeks, and someone has re-surfaced it with 8ft of new sand!

The old beach is buried below - it's all new sand - very odd to look at something that's so familiar, yet so different.

The new sand is much softer, and has no pebbles - and the soft sand makes for some lovely tracks.

X-Pro1 and 18mm Lens - Nik Silver FX

 

[Beth Carter]

hope they didn't add the chemical agent g-23 paxilon hydrochlorate to the terraforming program. i've heard it has a few undesired side effects on the local population..

love the leading lines heading straight towards what looks like a factory smoke stack. and those darker clouds around it look a little ominous.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Thanks Beth - that's our scenic local power station - lovely addition to the natural beauty of the coastline!

 

[Pete Askew]

Superb Chris. Not just and interesting story and record but also, as Beth points out, full of possible sinister meaning as well; what do they make in that there factory!

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Subliminal shot Chris! And brilliant reference to follow.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Chris nice image , yet slightly sinister looking. We have a beach or two which can lose all their sand in a winter southerly gale. the spring will bring in three weeks of easterly storms to replace the sand. It is quite a sight. I also remember as a child visiting Margate in Kent, they did import sand to put on the beaches each summer.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Thanks chaps - I agree with you on the slightly sinister feel - sort of like the cover of Pink Floyd Animals in a way?

Where's a flying pig when you need one!

 

[Hamish Gill]

The one chap has a walk like mine, apparently I walk with my feet pointing outward ...
The little one with him has been walking funny though, one foot directly in front of the other?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Nice shot, Chris. I think you've shown us that sinister-looking industrial plant before. Quite memorable, or maybe I'm projecting it from another memory. Anyway, good shot. Our beach at Portobello also has new sand put on it quite regularly.


Portobello 6 by RobMacKillop, on Flickr