Friday 25 May 2007

Beach tractors

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PHOTO
Old tractors are used in the Ribble estuary at Lytham, Lancashire for catching shrimps and for launching small boats. I caught this vehicle and its distant companion against a threatening sky.

QUOTO
"The winkle ship sank and the shrimp ship swam."
Anonymous, a Tongue Twister

INFO
Mode: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: Zoom at 26mm (35mm equiv.)
F No: f7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/1250
ISO: 200
Exposure Compensation: -1.0EV
photograph (c) T. Boughen

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great shot Tony. The colour of the tractor is really set off against the dark sky. This is a real cloud watches scene with God looking down through the cloud!!
Milton

Tony Boughen said...

Thanks Milton. I used a similar kind of processing on this shot as on "Wolfhole Crag" - sort of flat and subdued. I hadn't noticed the face in the clouds, but someone pointed it out to me, and now you've spotted it too. Clouds are like that - I speak as a member of The Cloud Appreciation Society :-)

Tony