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We try to make sure that we do at least one day trip to the coast during the summer and take Stephen's Mum with us. We didn't have particularly good weather on the day we chose, but we managed to get out of the car to look at the scenery without getting too wet. We also had moments when we definitely needed to shelter inside the car: I seem to recall that we even had thunder, lightning and hail that day!
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We drove along the beachfront at Bexhill and then sat and admired this view towards Hastings for quite a while. Those rather dark clouds did do something, by the way, and while the thunder, lightning and hail were raging around us, we sat in the car! As the weather was decidedly changeable, the rightmost of these three pictures is made up of the parts which were sunny in two different exposures of the same scene. |
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As well as photographing the distant view, I turned the telephoto lens to the beach areas nearer to where the car was parked. |
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I had my tripod out, and I shot this sequence of a heavy machine picking up rocks and depositing them further up the beach. There are six frames in the sequence, so it shouldn't be too much for a dial-up connection to cope with, but a broadband connect will download it a lot faster! |
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The next three pictures were taken in the Beachy Head area. Two of them show a lighthouse on a bluff near Beachy Head. It isn't the famous lighthouse, which is at sea level, and which can be seen elsewhere on this site by clicking here. |
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Then I turned my tripod around to face inland and took this picture of a farm on the South Downs. |
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Then we moved on to Newhaven Harbour, where I photographed these chalk cliffs at the entrance to the harbour. |
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There is a small lighthouse on the end of the breakwater at the entrance to Newhaven Harbour. |
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The vehicle ferry Dieppe can just be seen over the top of the breakwater in this picture. |
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Here, Dieppe is in plain view as she sails across the Harbour. |
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A close-up of Dieppe's funnel. |
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East Sussex Index (Pictures Page)
Last Revised: 19th August, 2007.
