Rich sunset colours on an old commercial fishing quay somewhere in Cornwall.
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Sun setting on the abandoned copper mine at Mynydd Parys. Blankets getting some morning air in Essaouira. An old 1960s Vespa motor scooter found in the medina in Sousse. One of many. An abandoned fishing boat at Dungeness. More of my images from this place can be found here From a large house in the small town of Cavtat. I was told it was abandoned in 1991 during the Yugoslav Wars. Natural still life from abandoned farmhouse on Valentia Island, County Kerry. An abandoned farm cottage on the hills above Llandecwyn. The usually stark but unusually green landscape near the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, following a 5-year long drought. Taken at sunset. An abandoned cottage on the Denbigh Moors in North Wales, uncovering the years.
It's become a bit of a cliché for photographers to head down to Dungeness for a day's shooting. When my wife told a guy from the same village as us, who's also a keen photographer, that I was away in England, in Kent, he apparently rolled his eyes skyward; he knew exactly where I had gone. But this boat graveyard really is a special place, though the boats and sheds are deteriorating fast. It's not exactly "England's only desert" as described by the ever-hyperbolic 'Daily Mail' a couple of years ago, but certainly one of its most unique and atmospheric, quiet and unromantically beautiful places. It's hard to imagine from these images that just a kilometre or so to the right as you look out at sea, there's a godawful ugly concrete nuclear power station. I'm told that a million people a year visit Dungeness. If so, they must all go together in summer. The crunch of my feet on the shingle and the squeal of seagulls was all I heard in March. I was fortunate enough to get an appropriate mackerel sky on one of the days I visited but I would have eagerly traded that for one the famous mists that drift in from the sea. That would really add to the eeriness. Maybe it'll happen next time I go all clichéd. More of my images from this location can be found here |