Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (21)
jayfar
Very good surfing waves and a super shot.
Juliette.Gribnau
beautiful capture ( but.. a lotof noise when zoomed)
pat40
Splendid shot Andrea
SunriseGirl
:) I can almost hear the noise...of the waves breaking that is. Thanks for sharing.
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
jendellas
I love seeing the sea when its like this.
kaward
That's whipping up a frothy edge! A day for the toughest of surfers! Well found, a really atmospheric shot!
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Isn't it funny how what we photographers called artistic grain back in the day has become "Noise" I like it, it gives the image an edge.
X-PaX
Very nice capture Andrea.
Faemike55
I agree with Ronnie in that the 'noise' adds a lot to the image
irisinthespring
Marvelous capture, love it!
Glendaw
Wow just have to say in Zoom it feels like being there ! I can almost feel the sand between my toes and hear the roaring sound of those awesome waves. Super shot--Thanks for sharing Andrea.
Katraz
Thats some great sea.
wysiwig
Rough water, I can feel the spray now. I like the land mass in the background. It looms over the scene like some great leviathan. A wonderful image and the grain does give it character.
danapommet
A beautiful display of breakers against the beach!
nikolais
What a powerful capture, Andrea! Have a great year, you all.
helanker
Fantastic and very dramatic shot, Andrea :) I can hear this roaring waves. Well, perhaps its because... we have stormy weather her today.
MrsRatbag
That's quite a rough sea, wonderful capture!
moochagoo
Wonderful sea capture.
auntietk
Whoo! Big surf! This is a powerful image. Nice!!
anahata.c
I remember the original, and yes it had noise, but one advantage of the original is that we have more detail, even in the sand and waves. However, the softened version gives it a cleaner, almost mythic quality; and the waves are like 'pure waves', as are the droplets upfront and the almost 3D rendered beach. I like both versions (and I zoomed in both cases). And the sweep of the image, the dark hues, the dark 'nostalgic' sky (yearning sky, whatever you want to call it), against that dark shadowed shore? They make a kind of archetypal vision of the 'old sea'. You see vistas like this in Maine, Nova Scotia and Labrador: very primal and timeless. Love the shot either way. Very true to the sea. (I assume Mark used softening filters. They're very easy to use, as are blurs---if used in tiny increments, so you don't suddenly turn your image into a big mudslide. They will always erase detail, but they can create archetypal results like this.)