Plain Spaces

Here’s a photo that is possibly boring because it shows the scene how it is. Which makes it not boring at all. 

Confused? Fear not. I shall explain. 

I walked up a footpath just outside Ryde. Not because I knew where it was going. But because I wanted to see what was at the end of it. 

And this sad excuse for a beach is what I found. I liked it, being honest. It was there, being a beach. And the sea was being the sea. There was nothing pretending to be anything else. 

📸 Photography tip (buried like a biscuit):

Don’t chase the spectacular. Take photos exactly as you find them — no filters, no fibbing.

New Topographics isn’t about beauty.

It’s about truth — even if that truth is a soggy shoreline where absolutely sod all is happening.

It’s just a beach.

Not even a good beach. The sort of beach that says, “I’m only doing this because the sea asked nicely.”

But a great opportunity to demonstrate  new topographics photography of spaces. 

Right, must go, I need to polish my lens for tomorrow.