Last Rites..

If I was french I would say I had a Penchant for lurking around old abandoned piers, jetties, wharf’s and bridges… taking pictures of them that is.

But i’m not so lets just say I “have a strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something” ;-)

This old pier from St Clair Beach, on Dunedin’s coast has been photographed a 1000 times and more and I dutifully clicked my way through some frames this morning along with another random photographer.

After the usual compositions were shot I wandered around looking for something a little different and end up with this image, which gave me , in my eyes, the most interesting image for the morning.

Some days, you just have to love a good old stark and minimalist scene like this.

Stoic Timbers - The last of there kind on this beach…

A whole lot of nothing...

If you get caught up in chasing the more dramatic types of landscapes it can often be quite cathartic to kick back and look for more subtle and quite compositions.

I find this part quite hard and often come back to my image files multiple times before my creative side ‘clicks’ and I realise what the image is all about.

The below is an example of an image I played with in Lightroom a few times before a subtle crop and some colour adjustments gave this balanced, simplistic final image that takes well to the panoramic sizing.

Muted colour and clearly separated areas are a point of interest.