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I had a specific shot in mind and didn't think about doing two separate ones.  I did do this shot where the lifeboat house was in one of the faces.

Here is the lifeboat house by itself.  It was a really superb building.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 05:28:21 AM EST
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Yes, I realize what you hoped to do as a composition but it doesn't turn out too well. The part to the right is the kind of tending-to-the-abstract shot of materials you like (the boardwalk trending off to infinity) (not infinity in the photo tech sense), the part to the left colourful historical-human inetrest. They probably called for separate treatment - unless you had the right kind of humans in the right places.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:13:31 AM EST
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What I liked about the scene was the ridiculousness of the out of season, peeling cartoony image set against the grownup-ness of the pier.  The pier is made for casual strolling, admiring the view with a space of quiet reflection and this is intruded by that pitiful comedy picture begging for people who aren't there to stick their faces through and grin about it.

It's a facade.  And that becomes much more obvious in the winter when the colours become weathered and sorry for themselves and nobody engages with it. It can't compete with the real and raw beauty of the coast.

That is why I like out of season piers. Because they have to stop pretending.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 02:51:09 PM EST
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