Amelia's photos

SC140 - post 30 March - Poster style. I couldn't get this looking good in portrait format, but attempted the 'feeling' of old seaside posters. Posters of all kinds were produced, usually by the railways, to promote tourist spots in Great Britain.

Actually this is a GROYNE. A groyne is an active structure extending from the shore into the sea, most often perpendicular or slightly oblique to the shoreline. The main function of a groyne is catching and trapping part of the sediment moving in a longshore direction in the surf zone. This groyne is catching flint pebbles and quite large pieces of flint in chalk. Some of the wood lower down is heavily weathered, and the construction bolts are very rusty.

Shropshire Sculpture Park. It used to be free to get into the Park. We went there last week - £7 each to enter and £4 for parking. We won't be going again. ;-)))

Facing the sea means facing north. Here one can look at a scrubby putting green,in the sunshine sheltered for the cold north winds. But where is everyone?

I used selective colouring on the photo. The PiP here is the original.

SC137 - post 9 March - Rework a favourite archive image. I still prefer the original. It reminds me so much of pottering on the beach when I was a child. Of course we didn't have such posh clothes in the 40s and early 50s, and our spades were made of wood and metal. No polluting plastics. I have reworked the original image again, this time using selective colouring technique. I prefer this to the inversion image.

We are away from the computer for a week. Enjoy your photography. The lead statue of Hercules at Chirk Castle, North Wales, was commissioned in the 1720s and originally stood at the entrance to the castle, together with a figure of Mars. In 1770 it was moved to a nearby wood, from where it was retrieved in 1983, before being restored and positioned here by the National Trust. The Castle is shown in the background, with formal gardens of clipped yew. The PiP shows carpets of snowdrops covering the woodland floor.