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"Well, looks like we got ourselves a reader"
Bill Hicks

There are at least two types of self-taught photographer, those that reach for books and those that reach for the Youtube tutorial. I've always been the reading type. Some new shelves have allowed me to tidy everything together, and identify a couple of books that will be hitting the shelf at a charity shop very soon.

"As one approaches Ely on foot or on a bicycle, or perhaps in an open car, the cathedral dominates the picture for miles around ... and offers from everywhere an outline different from that of any other English cathedral"

Nikolaus Pevsner, 1954

Running a bit later with this weeks submission to the 52. Thursday/Friday is my target period to take the shot for the week.

Lots of trial and error with this shot. An urchin test collected from the beach a couple of weeks ago, and a piece of bog wood that probably detached from the preserved peat buried under the sand.

Lighting is provided by a cheap torch from the right of camera. No fill. As the project continues I'll have turns at getting more creative lighting film shots.

f/8 & 1/250, 90mm with the No.2 extension tube focussed to give maximum magnification, according to the table in the manual this is 1.42x

I'm picking backwards and forwards through photos from the last few weeks. This is another one from a trip to Thornham and a walk acround the marsh and across the dunes to the beach at Holme.