I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
John Masefield, 'Salt-Water Ballads', 1902
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
John Masefield, 'Salt-Water Ballads', 1902
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
John Masefield, 'Salt-Water Ballads', 1902
I like the composition where they are together but apart in that moment, and the solitude and the light of the early morning in Lyme Regis adds atmosphere. However, metering into the sea can be problematic and the sky was no help. I've overlaid a grad filter in the processing to counter those deficiencies. In some situations you tend not to get much opportunity to use a grad at the moment of exposure.
One August afternoon at the seaside I encountered this girl who was taking photographs and asked if I could take one of her. The encounter was over in a moment.
I sent a large number of holiday pix off for prints. This was one of them. Later, in an old Nova magazine from 1965, I saw a short story by Edna O'Brien entitled 'A Woman at the Seaside' in an interesting typeface and I thought of combining the two.
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