May Bank Holiday II

Sunday night saw one of the brightest moons I've seen in a very long time! Being the era of snazzy intellectual cameras, myself, my sister and my dad all went outside to take pictures, so imagine us all lying on a wall pointing our cameras out to sea precariously balanced on tiny tripods and that is a typical family moment in our household! (p.s. clicking on the pictures will bring up a slightly larger version)

 This is what we could initially see from the beach hut, but once we stepped outside it brightened instantly.

Playing around with the shutter speed of my camera started to produce even more colour in the rising moon.

 You must excuse the slight wonk on these... I was lying on my side on a wall.. enough said?

The sky to our eye was so much darker and it really is incredible what is actually out there that our eyes just can't quite pick up. It was about 10.30/11.00 at night when these pictures were taken but you'd think it was sun rise.

And a slightly straighter one for those of you who have a thing for parallel lines :)

May Bank Holiday

Now I have a normal job I actually get to enjoy the benefits of Bank Holidays!! This meant the whole family (plus two dogs) piling into the car and heading to the beach huts for the weekend and luckily enough we had the weather to go with it too. I'll brush past the fact it was pretty windy on the Monday and we were all wearing woolly jumpers, but on Sunday it was lovely, book reading/sunbathing/dog walking weather. Finally.

On a short little walk with my camera I couldn't help but be consumed by the colours I found on the beach so here is my little colour study on a British beach. The only editing these pictures have had was on the camera before taking them. I'm still learning how to use my camera so I wanted to capture the colours using only the different settings of my camera.

I have a whole other post to publish just with pictures of the moon, the skies were so clear all weekend that we had the most amazing night on Sunday the full moon was huge and so bright so there are some more pictures to come in the next few days!

I hope you all had a great bank holiday too.