You can't fence clouds

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Walking on the beach at Sunderland Point, Lancashire, I looked up and saw this cloud, apparently lower than its companions, drifting over the barbed wire fence that marked the edge of the cultivated land. It made me reflect that, just as you can't hold back the sea, you can't fence in the clouds!

QUOTO
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
John Lubbock (1834-1913), English banker, politician, scientist and writer

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Focal Length: Zoom @ 22mm (35mm equiv.)
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ISO: 100
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photograph (c) T. Boughen

Soft shell

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I don't know whether this shell - a gift from a child - originated in the sea or on land. But, I decided to photograph it in soft lighting and keep the contrast low - contrary to my natural inclinations!

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" I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English scientist

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F No: f18
Shutter Speed: 1/80
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -0.7EV

photograph (c) T. Boughen

Self-portrait with photographs

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PHOTO
Not, perhaps, the most revealing of self-portraits, but sometimes the interest of this type of image lies in the clues it offers about the subject!

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"Everything we see hides another thing. We always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
Renee Magritte (1898-1967), Belgian painter, commenting on his own self-portrait

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F No: f5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/20 sec
ISO: 400
Exposure Compensation: -0.3EV

photograph (c) T. Boughen