
No it's not the Gobi desert....this is what Southport Beach in NW England looks like in the summer when the tide is out. (the tide hardly ever comes in for that matter :-)
The dots that you can see are all the local people and tourists enjoying the weekend summer sunshine which has been a rare event over the last few years.
All I've done with this in post processing is to convert it to mono with that blueish tone you can see and I applied a heavy vignette to the sky.
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I've decided to enter the 'Cool Photoblogs' annual competition again this year. I'd really appreciate a vote from any of you who like my blog and who feel up to going through the registration process that is required in order to be able to vote: 2009 Photoblog Awards
Like what you see here and are interested in photographic composition?.....the blog section of my website now has a complete set of 5 articles covering my personal approach to the subject: Ian Bramham Photography - Blog
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@Richard Hollins: Thanks Richard!
@Anna.C: Thanks Anna! (PS - "septentrial" was a new word for me so I googled it and apparantly it means "of the north". It's not a word that I've ever heard used in the north of England so that's something new I learned today!)
@Anna.C: "up north" would be the coloquial expression more familiar to many of us notherners :-)
@Luca Bobbiesi: Thanks Luca!
@Lorraine: Thanks Lorraine!
@Momo: Thanks Momo....I thought keeping the figures small like that helped to give a better idea of how big and flat this part of the NW coast is.
NIKON D40
1/250 second
F/11.0
ISO 200
21 mm (35mm equiv.)