November 2020
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November Gallery
Author: Janimal
October shores
I don’t know if there is something geographically special about Lancing beach that makes it a favourite for kite surfers or if it is due to offshore activity regulations or just availability of car park & utilisation etc.. but when the wind blows you know the water will be filled with kite surfers. Lancing Kite Surfing club meets here so perhaps that is reason enough.
Sparrow Hawk
Glancing out of the back room window at the heavy downpour that would have surprised any witnesses to the dappled sunshine preceding it, I caught a glimpse of a bird failing to find shelter on the fence under my neighbours oak.
September Gallery
September 2020
August 2020 Lancing Kite Surfers
A breezy August day
Unlike a second wave
It all seems a bit of a shock to some people, such as those hampered by an expensive private education at an elite school where they gained a first in soggy biscuit and an honours in splashing the cash in exchange for homework and other favours, but the second wave was inevitable after all the hapless shittery The Conservatives have inflicted on us while incidentally enriching their chums.
However even I couldn’t predict motivating myself enough to sit down on my arse in front of a keyboard and dust off the old website. Even as I type this I can’t be sure I’ll manage to transfer this local test data, such as this post to the live site. I might just lose interest and wander off. Stranger things have happened. A saying we can assume is a silent prefix for everything these days.
Really Twitter has a lot to answer for. I’ve been ranting a bit about our crappy government, electoral system, cryptic mystery constitution, etc… So just as they intend, once you’re posting things there, it becomes less convenient doing it here, where incidentally no one is going to see it.
After I posted a few links to the netflix documentary The Social Dilemma they took away my ability to post anything. I detest them anyway so that sort of shitty ‘support’ doesn’t make me want to use it more. So ta da…
SM.262
SMS.262 is one of the fishing boats that leave the flag markers along the coast each morning, presumably marking the location of pots or nets?
I love this muted picture of the boat with the large ship in the distance.
To me there was a nostalgic feel to it, although it is very much a working boat. So the perfect opportunity to try a little artistic experimentation. The first two use various luminance & colour curves in RawTherapee to ‘age’ the image. The third is produced using an open source haldCLUT tonal profile in RawTherapee (an open source RAW image processor) simulating real film stock.
Fuji Neopan Acros 100
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