After I’d walked around the empty funfair (here) I sallied forth beyond it to the beach front. Very few people around, but I spotted this chap with his camera photographing some little birds that were hopping about. I asked him what they were and Snow Buntings was the answer. They are a sparrow-sized bird that breeds in the Arctic (from Scandinavia to Canada), and winters in the UK, mainly around the coast. Too small for the lens I have on the Contax, but the photographer wasn’t. When Phil saw this he said the guy looks like he’s about to launch an RPG!
I liked the clean lines of the locked up Lifeguard building,
and I liked the additional rainbow that landed on it a moment later as the rain started up.
The rainbow got cut off at the edge of the clouds, but it hung about as I walked up to the skateboard park behind the funfair.
The skateboard park was, unusually, bereft of lads with their derring do, and a lone Seagull sentinel stood aloft awaiting the action.
I realise I’ve grown too old to understand the graffiti alphabet or language of today, I think there’s an M in this. But I liked the mouse. Or maybe the rat?
It was quite cold this day, and I thought she could do with a coat on, or a blanket, but I guess pirates are mean.
If only, a beach bar in Havana, warm sunshine, a Cuban Rumba on the music system, a handsome waiter pouring me a cocktail, sitting by the outside bar and gazing out to sea, ah, if only!
I left Havana, without a cocktail, and wandered up towards the beach at Trow Rocks, where a herd of people, (well 4 anyway) were walking their dogs.
And that’s the end of this roll of Kodak Portra, which I think suits the subject quite well. It was a strange afternoon, I’ve rarely seen the place so unpopulated, even though it was cold (ish), but it was also cool, to be able to focus on what there is, and not what everyone is doing. Peace and tranquility, unexpectedly. I think I’ll go back next summer when it’s all on the go, and do some contrasting photographs.
So thanks for visiting, and stay tooned for whatever comes next!
📷 🎞️ 😊
fragglefilm 
Looks like an RPG to me too, what IS going on down there?
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Snow Buntings are going on. None were harmed in the making of this post.
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The seaside off-season is fascinating. I also feel sorry for the poor woman without a coat.
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Haha me too!
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That is an excellent set of pix showing how deserted everything was.
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Cheers Booky!
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Are you one of the last survivors of the zombie apocalypse in these environs? I want to come visit.
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We have a spare room, and weapons.
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Shiver me timbers, indeed!
I love going to places that are normally crowded when they’re deserted. Gives a whole different vibe.
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It really does! Cheers Melanie.
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That lens he had would probably cost me more than all my pensions this month. Love the deserted seafront, and the sentinel gull keeping guard over the skatepark.
Cheers, Pete.
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Thanks Pete!
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Mojitos at the ready!
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🤣 I wish!
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🍸🏖☀🌞 if only.
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The talent that does into graffiti always amazes me. I’m not really a fan of it, but at the same time I find it hard to look away. 🤔
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I know what you mean!
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Beautiful colors, the place makes me think much in the photographs I see of lake Michigan, with its festive touristic fairies. Thank you, fragglerocking.
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Cheers Francis!
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Lovely images Fraggle! Do I see some additional lenses for the Contax coming into view. That Zeiss glass is lovely and the more common zooms and focal lengths are still affordable 🙂
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I have recently purchased Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T 28-70mm F/3.5-4.5 MMJ Zoom and it is permanently on the Contax, it is lovely. 🙂
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Oh nice, I have the 28-85 which is fabulous, but a little heavy. The 80-200 is very affordable and would give you a very complete kit! Perhaps a Christmas Stocking filler 😉
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I shall have a look! Christmas present time 😊
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