Curves

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PHOTO
This curving metal "whale tail", on Blackpool's South Promenade, is a 26 feet high wind vane that rotates a bench so that the occupants are always sheltered from the sea breeze. The wind is no problem for the passing gull!

QUOTO
"The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators"
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), English historian

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Mode: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: Zoom @ 28mm (35mm equiv.)
F No: f11
Shutter Speed: 1/200
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -0.7EV

photograph (c) T. Boughen

Morning by the creek

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PHOTO
At low tide, in the early morning at Skippool Creek, Lancashire, the curlews and redshanks are the yachts' companions .

QUOTO
"Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing the golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy." (Sonnet 33)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English dramatist and poet

INFO
Mode: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: Zoom @ 256mm (35mm equiv.)
F No: f7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/500
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -0.7EV

photograph (c) T. Boughen