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Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
by SeasideMan @ 09/06/08 - 09:10:18

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People just love it here. Cars park on the road outside our house and the kids race up to the top of the sea wall to get their first glimpse of the sea and the sand. It seems to stimulate their creativity too: almost every day a new cairn of stones appears, sandcastles, pictures drawn in the sand, patterns of stones. They have fish and chips for their lunch and an ice cream in the afternoon. They swim, paddle, dig, run and play all day long.

The couple in the picture above were as happy as sandboys, sat on the sea wall kicking their legs and enjoying the view. They are both smiling, as you can see if you click on the picture to make it bigger.

Cheers, Tom.

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skip2468skip2468 [Member]
09/06/08 @ 10:16

May the wonderful location never be over-run with commercialism.

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 11:22

That's a good thought, and thanks for it. Space here is limited, so I hope we manage to avoid that particular evil.

Tom.

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 11:22

That's a good thought, and thanks for it. Space here is limited, so I hope we manage to avoid that particular evil.

Tom.

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faffajanefaffajane pro
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09/06/08 @ 21:57

I think it will avoid that particular evil - well I hope so anyway:)

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 22:06

Yes, with the bog one side and shingle the other, space is rather limited for Big Business!

Tom.

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faffajanefaffajane pro
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10/06/08 @ 07:12

:yes:

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PrettyintelligentprincessPrettyintelligentprincess [Member]
09/06/08 @ 10:46

Great pic!
I tagged you by the way!
x

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 11:24

Thanks, I'm thinking of doing a series of pictures of people enjoying themselves at the seaside.

Tom.

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Kackers [Visitor]
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09/06/08 @ 11:07

Oh what a great photo to capture the moment!!!

See, no matter what age, where you are the sun can make you smile.

Great photo.....

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 11:26

It was one of those moments I just had to capture! The sun has his hat on again today, whatever than means.

Tom.

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jenrayjenray pro
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09/06/08 @ 16:05

Something was quite lovely about the sea today...the horizon had a distinct dark line running the entire length of it with very pale sea in front of it making it look like somebody had take a thick pencil and a ruler and run a line between the sky and the sea to make it stand out...looked beautiful....great big hugs....

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 16:44

Ah yes, I've seen it like that too. This morning it looked quite peculiar: there was a thin strip of completely white cloud along the horizon. There were three distinct bands: the sea was deep, dark blue, the cloud white and the sky that lovely pale blue that it goes in the morning. It was quite lovely, but of course none of my photographs of it came out very well - I still have much to learn about the science of photography whilst trying to convey the art of it.

Cheers, Tom.

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jenrayjenray pro
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09/06/08 @ 17:01

What a shame, sounds lovely...I would have described this morning as a perfect seaside day...great big hugs...XX

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 17:16

I get that frequently. I see something marvelous to photograph and snap away and the pictures end up too dark or too bright or something else. I'm trying to get into the habit of taking pictures of the same thing with multiple settings to try and ensure at least one good one, but I don't always remember! And then afterwards, I don't remember the settings that the good one was taken with, so I end up not learning either. DOH!

Tom.

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jenrayjenray pro
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09/06/08 @ 19:11

Very complicated photography isn't it...I usually point and snap, and hope to hell something comes out...:)

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 19:53

There's a lot more to it than I realised at first.

Tom.

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jenrayjenray pro
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09/06/08 @ 20:21

I think I picked that up pretty quickly when I looked at my digital camera and couldn't make head nor tail of the settings part so ignore it...HLOL...

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 21:09

I read the 100 page manual from cover to cover when I first got the camera, and probably understood about 10% of it. After a month's fiddling I read it again and got up to about 40%. On the third reading after 6 months, I reckon I understood pretty much all of it, but didn't know when to use the features! I still struggle, and computers have been my life.

I'm going to master this, even if it kills me!

Tom.

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jenrayjenray pro
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09/06/08 @ 22:42

HLOL...if you can't understand yet, what chance do I stand? I get a mind blank when it comes to manuals...they sort of refuse to go in...and always they're written in such damned incomprehensible language...I can cope with do it yourself instructions when putting together furniture, but when it comes to these new contraptions, I get lost very quickly...two of the worst are for videos or dvd players set ups....drive me up the wall! :)

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 22:46

I've had a lot of experience with incomprehensible manuals, and it's helped me a lot that they tend to be written by sad nerds like me! I know how their minds work.

I can't handle furniture at all. Give me a black box with buttons and a long manual and I'll work it out. Give me some shelves, a bag of screws and some diagrams and I'm lost.

It's a good job we're all good at different things, or we'd have become extinct millenia ago!

Tom.

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EsspeeEsspee pro
11/06/08 @ 09:40

If you have the pictures saved on the computer, you canright click on the "good pic" and it will bring up all the details, ie ISO shutter speed etc etc..
Hope this is helpful mate, Regards, Steve

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
11/06/08 @ 09:51

Thanks, Steve. I think used to know that but forgot. I must remember to do that in future.

Tom.

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loiswakemanloiswakeman [Member]
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09/06/08 @ 16:39

Lovely post! reminds me of being a kid, sitting in the back of the Ford Anglia (and probably feeling sick), on the way to Nanna and 'Bompa' in Hastings.

We all used to cry "I can see the laundry" as we spotted the exciting landmark (a laundry with a tall chimney) that meant we were only a few minutes drive from our grandparents' house.

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
09/06/08 @ 16:48

Your description reminds me of my childhood. We used to go to a small place near Skegness where my grandparents had a bungalow. It's funny how these memories stick with us. I distinctly remember a pair of dark green sunglasses that my dad used to wear, and the car full of cigarette smoke.

Cheers, Tom.

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RacyTracyRacyTracy pro
10/06/08 @ 08:19

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside.........

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11/06/08 @ 08:55

I wish I lived somewhere nice like that.

I've got the tyne tunnel on one side and a bunch of factories on the other. dump.

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
11/06/08 @ 09:16

I've lived in places like you currently do. They have their good points. I know I'm lucky to live here.

Tom.

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