Tollgate Islands

So beautiful and peaceful...

An appropriate and very beautiful photo for World Photography Day!

I also have that particular Brownie along with some other models. The 2A box I have was purchased in around the 1970s (I don't believe the one my mother used growing up survived - I never saw it). I did use it and loved the color richness I got from using a camera with no lens. Your making want to find film for it again!
I have a Minolta close to that one, it's an SRT100. It was my first personal camera (learned on my mom's rolliflex). My mom bought it for me in around 1973 and I had to re-learn how to frame my photos - I couldn't stop my eye from seeing square photos that I had always seen with the Rollei! . It was my only camera until about 2003 when, again, my mother bought me another camera, my first digital.

Okay, sorry, too much on my, not enough on your post.

I like knowing that you have a 'local' coast. How far is it from where you live? Ours is about an hour away, so I don't get to it as often as I'd like.

I love that one can see the green of the ocean in the bit of wave shown in your photo. The blues are gorgeous and the green adds a nice touch.

Thanks for sharing your first cameras also!

Thanks for your kind feedback, raingirl. The beach here is about 200 metres walk for me.

How wonderful to have it so close. I hope you can keep appreciating that beach even though it is "everyday" for you.

You are so lucky to be able to get to your local beach so easily, George. It takes us almost 2 hours on a good day.

Lovely to see your coastline on an early spring day, and those waves looks so inviting, that I might take my shoes off and have a walk on the beach and a paddle, just to test the water. ;-)

Thank you, Amelia. The water is still a little cool, currently just over 17C.

Bautiful vista George.

Beautiful shot and great PIP!

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Remarquable et excellente capture superbement rendue avec cette magnifique Pip très représentative.
Bon week-end.

A salted and cloudy blue colour par excellence.

A fantastic view to have from your beach and a good reminder. The speed in which the changes to our environment occur is quite frightening...

A very appropriate scene for this special day George. It is always nice to see our Southern Oceans in your collection and it always saddens me to read and see the consequences of our climate warming on these. Very nice Islands too. That Minolta SR1 was a very good camera and lens in its day, I remember them well.

Best Wishes. Herb

BEAUTIFUL BLUE SEA

MY DADS FIRST CAMERA WAS A BOX BROWNIE LIKE YOURS TOO !!

Das ist ja ein sehr schöner Blick rüber lieber George,toll hast du ihn festgehalten und deine Kameras sind ja richtige Highlights lieber George :))

Wünsche noch einen schönen Nachmittag,ganz liebe Grüße Güni :))

Superb image, George!
The camara is a great tribute to photography

Wonderful photo, George, and a great post for the occasion.

Not sure I'll have anything to post. We are displace persons at the moment, having been evacuated due to wildfires in our area.

My first camera was a Minolta 201.

That’s a wonderful view, George !!!

Superb capture George and I also started with a Box Brownie, but I do not remember which version.

Beautiful image, and the green colour in the cresting wave is lovely.

lovely mood !

Ein wunderbarer Blick! Ich mag die horizontalen Streifen im Bild.
Ich bin auch ein Minolta-Fan. Meine erste Kamera war 1978 die XD7.

What great colors for the World day!

It seems to me that I could hear the noise of the breaking waves - wonderful.
And how lucky you are to have the beach so close to your home, George.