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Photographer’s Note

This is not any type of beach. At least for me, since I learned to swim here 33 years ago, more or less. I used to live in a house separated from the sea only by the sand dunes. Between then and today, Time (and Man…) has ravaged the coast in senseless way.

I was fortunate to be there recently while I had the low tide early in the morning, allowing me to walk on the wet sand at dawn while listening to the seagulls crying out their protest to the sun about to rise.

Much later, around 8am, elderly people start to arrive for their morning walk/exercise, before those thousands who escape from the summer heat invade the beaches. They go and come within the limits of the piers dividing the different beaches, alone or in two, starting their day with their lungs filled with the salty air coming from the Atlantic Ocean.

Although they all wait impatiently for summer to arrive, this is a beautiful and very poetic seascape during winter, when the sea and the wind wash the coast under the symphony of thunders.

letuananh, pridel, timotey, RGatward, mlopes, Rinie_Hoff, jrj has marked this note useful

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letuananh (2478) 2005-08-01 3:07

Great compo, reflection and lighting very nice.
Regards,

Zepi (22848) 2005-08-01 3:53

Salut Gal,
Mmmh, j’adore cette image !
Belle triangulation des sujets !
Le tilt est içi très intéressant et le rendu des couleurs des plus réussi !
Très belle recherche, j’apprécie cette grande rigueur dans ta composition
Beau travail
Merci pour le partage.
Amicalement
Sébastien

pridel (233) 2005-08-01 4:19

bonjour Gal
waou cadrage rigoureux avec ces deux diagonales. le tilt ne facilite pas la marche de l'homme :-) Et ce que j'aime bien dans cette photo c'est la solide construction (avec symétrie) qui est adoucie par les tonalités matinales.
j'aime beaucoup.
Pascal

timotey (1926) 2005-08-01 4:25

I adore the woay you've framed this picture. Extremely original and dynamic. It also provides a great gemotrical aspect and the man placed in the center seems to slip on this wet sand :)

Very well done !

naxius (16679) 2005-08-01 4:43

Bonjour Gal,
C'est clair, tu as fait ton choix sur un tilt tres pousse et on retrouve un jeu de lignes et de symetrie.
Pas facile au premier abord mais finalement, on se laisse prendre a ce jeu.
Tres soigne.
Alex

Furachan (0) 2005-08-01 4:59

How can I NOT respond to this splendid "tilt", Gal, me who cannot even shoot "straight" anymore...:)Splendid shot, seriously, with the main swimmer equidistant from the other two, giving the whole tilted beauty a balanced air. Very sharp, crips colors. Delightful! Francis

fixed (3831) 2005-08-01 5:27

Bonjour Gal,
Une photo bien composée et bien cadrée !
(...si je peux me permettre ...)
très belles lignes !
... tes images sont superbes !!
... bravo !
merci
Arnaud

dolin (15647) 2005-08-01 6:08

Salut Gal.
Un sacré coup de tilt qui dynamise cette image...et nous crée une chouette diagonale.
Très belle reflection et belle ombre, cac donne un bel effet.
Bien vu
Fred

huynt (5077) 2005-08-01 7:07

Hi Gal
Well POV, excellent reflection. Great composition.Thanks

RGatward (19737) 2005-08-01 13:40

Clever angle and timing, catching the other two bathers on either side in the distance. The resuling triangular patch of sky also works for the compo, IMO.

betogrein (2232) 2005-08-01 15:19

Linda foto, gostei muito do ângulo e do reflexo na areia. Parabéns... Belo trabalho...
Beto Grein

falves (1403) 2005-08-01 17:18

Just beautiful.
8 a.m? Just you.

Cheers

Fred

mlopes (492) 2005-08-01 17:36

Gal, como sabes eu moro na costa e esta foto (e nota) tem algo de especial que eu valorizo muito!

Embora tenhas toda a razao, de ha 33 anos para cá a costa tem sido punida pela mao do homem... neste momento podemos dizer que está a beira do caos... vamos ver se conseguem dar a volta por cima.

Tambem eu costumo acordar cedo, sentir o primeiro cheiro da areia molhada, ver os primeiros idosos a chegar e as gaivotas a cantar.

Obrigado
Mario

jp80 (8437) 2005-08-02 7:48

Salut Gal,
très original, et bien pensé je trouve ce cadrage en diagonale, avec l'homme et son ombre. L'effet est très réussi, et les couleurs attrayantes. Bravo !

Pascal

Isabelle (9014) 2005-08-02 8:24

cores naturais e agradáveis. gosto do tilt aqui, dá um dinamismo novo e a impressão de que nosso companheiro na foto vai ter que se esforçar um bocado hoje para subir essa rampa :)
gosto demais das tuas notas, tu o sabes, hoje me fizeram lembrar do final de um poema da Florbela Espanca pela força das imagens ligadas à natureza:
"(...)E, olhos postos em ti, digo de rastros:
«Ah! Podem voar mundos, morrer astros,
Que tu és como Deus: Princípio e Fim!...»"

vbourrut (30571) 2005-08-02 10:24

J'aime bien ton image, mais l'horizon penche un peu... :-)
plus sérieusement, tu nous propose ici un cadrage qui ne manque pas d'audace, il fallait y penser... la luminosité est parfaite, et je regrette seulement que le promeneur soit si centré dans la composition, sinon c'est du tout bon !

A bientot

Vincent

Rinie_Hoff (9332) 2005-08-03 18:08

How to get diagonals in your shot, lesson 1.
What I like most, or very much in the shot, is the man, his reflection exactly opposite, and his shadow on exactly 90 degrees, they form a sort of dynamic cross. The tilt makes it hard for him to walk up to the beach, which fits his age, I guess.
But I still have to get used to all those tilts that suddenly appear on TE.

Thanks for this slice of your youth, Gal, I hope you had a good time there, back then as well, the way you talk about it now, gives me a positive idea about that.

Burnham (2426) 2005-08-04 19:52

33 years ago, and here I was thinking you were merely a teenager ;o) Everything has been said (I've been gone for a very long time sorry for giving you such a comment cliché :o). All I can add is "You still rock, this is exellent".

Calimero76 (9038) 2005-08-15 16:35

Hello Gal
photographie très originale
il fallait osé et tu as très bien fait car c'est vraiment une belle image
le fait que le personnage soit centré donne un plus pour moi et j'aurai aimé qu'il resorte encore plus dans le ciel pour faire une croix avec la ligne d'horizon
bravo
Patrice

jrj (34779) 2005-08-18 15:14

Creative and effective shooting, good diagonal use, top disposed compo. Very nice work Gal

jrzufferey (7249) 2005-09-09 14:51

Salut Gal, Tilt ou pas, ce qui est sûr c'est que l'image est magnifique. La triangulation.. oui ou non pour moi la perfection des couleurs entre le ciel et l'eau ainsi que le choix de ta composition me plaisent beaucoup. Le premier contact est pour moi le meilleur juge. Amitié/jr

Luan (15935) 2005-09-24 4:00

Bonjour Gal,
voici un tilf terrifiant qui grace a lui fait rentrer 2 autres personnages dans le jeux, c'est tres reussi surtout au niveau du reflet et dde l'ombre du monsieur.
Amities
Luan

goodwill (4029) 2006-06-11 14:00

Six feetand two shadows of a single man. I shall try a simmilar shot. Tilted to provide indepth, I guess.
regards
rajeev