FOAM AND ROCKS ON GOUKAMMA BEACH

Last Saturday evening, we went down to Goukamma Beach - the one behind the Lake Pleasant Hotel just outside Sedgefield - and were confronted with this huge amount of foam on the beach. This sometimes occurs after big storms, but during the past week the weather was mild, so no idea what the cause of this is. Two days later, it was still there.

SUNSET AT BRENTON-ON-SEA

A fellow-photographer friend of mine was up from Cape Town for a few days, so on Friday evening we decided to go down to the beach to see what was happening...

WAY OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE....

A friend of mine who is a motoring journalist and writes for a local paper as well as a few national ones, asked me if I'd like to help him my shooting a Peugeot RCZ he had on test. He's a great "scribe", but not the most knowledgeable photographer.
Having said that, this is new ground for me as well. I've shot a few stills of cars before, but this time he wanted to shoot the car being driven, which requires totally different camera setting and skills compared with landscapes. We found a location that offered some possibilities and I gave it my best shot - excuse the pun - and produced some images that he was really happy with....

SOMETHING DIFFERENT.....

The weather has been totally overcast and rainy for the past few days and the sea has been grey and dull.
I've never shot "macro" before, so this afternoon after the sky lightened and was like a huge softbox, I decided to try it out. The wind was blowing a bit, so some of the images are not pin sharp.

SEDGEFIELD BEACH MOVIE

This is the beach closest to where I live and where the photographs below were taken

You can view a high res version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvlO1NIr6Us

SEDGEFIELD BEACH 26 FEBRUARY

Another night of restless sleep, so decided to get up around 5:00am and was faced with a grey dawn... oh well, head down to the beach closest to me and try to make the best of it....

...and was faced with this rare image of Venus and the moon really close together.
Sorry I don't have a telephoto lens....

A moody, brooding feel - I quite like it....

Successful black & white images require strong composition and tonal contrast...

Liked the curving line of the beach...

...and the wonderful edge created by the outgoing tide eroding the edge.

SWARTVLEI BEACH

One of the beaches really close to me in Sedgefield where I live is Swartvlei (Black Lagoon)Beach.

it's a couple of kilometres long and stretches from the estuary mouth in the east to Gericke's Point in the west. The central portion is wide and open (where I shot the following images) and the western end has some really interesting rock formations culminating in Gericke's Point - a rocky outcrop and the western end. Last Thursday early morning was overcast, but I decided to go down and see what I could capture.

Below are some moody, long exposure seascapes which I rather like - I feel there's a certain peacefulness to them despite the brooding feel and the muted tones are a change from the usual reds & oranges...