Beach Head

Shelter From The Storm

On New Year's Eve there was a huge ship off the coast of Waterford, visible even from our house which is about 3 miles inland.  It turned out to be the Fedora, a Swedish vehicle carrier which was slowly moving up and down the cost after leaving Bristol.  The North Atlantic was stormy and the Fedora hung around from 12 hours before I suppose things got calmer and off she went, to cross the Atlantic to Baltimore.

You can check which vessels are in the vicinity of your own coast on  https://www.marinetraffic.com/

Close Encounters

Nearly all of the things I find on the beach are rubbish and get thrown in the bin but are beautiful at the same time so I've started photographing them as best I can, usually singly, sometimes together.  I like this freezing in time of these articles - the sea has faded and folded them, battered them out of shape, given them a new identity almost and it is this that attracts me and this that I'd like to capture before putting them in the bin. 

And why in the bin?  Some things, I can't bring myself to throw away but most things I have to or my house would be full of bits of lino and sandy pan scrubs.