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A line of posts exposed by winter storms on the beach at Westward Ho!, North Devon

Exposed Posts, Westward Ho!

The lady we spoke to on the beach told us that the tips of these posts are exposed during many winters but that in all her years she had never seen this much of the posts showing. They are presumably some sort of groyne though it is rare to see one parallel with the beach rather than perpendicular to it.

We had gone up to Westward Ho! after somebody had reported on the BBC website that the beach had lost “3 feet” of sand after the last Atlantic storm and was showing exposed bedrock. This turned out to be something of an exaggeration as the “bedrock” turned out to be dark mud, doing a remarkably good impression of rock it might be granted.

There were more rocks and pebbles on the beach than normal though; this will prove an obstacle to the sand yachters and kite buggy riders who love this beach.

I seem to be having a bit of black and white theme going on at the moment. There are more to come I’m afraid.

Location

Westward Ho!, Bideford, Devon, UK

EXIF

Camera: Olympus E-M1
Lens: Olympus M 12-40 mm f/2.8
Focal Length: 40mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.8
Shutter Speed: 1/6400s
ISO: 200

  • Before-Exposed Posts, Westward Ho!
    After-Exposed Posts, Westward Ho!
    Before Exposed Posts, Westward Ho! After

Image Details

Fairly simple processing was used on this image. It was LAB boosted to bring up the saturation in the skies and to individuate the the grain in the posts and then it was converted to black and white by tweaking the Ilford Delta 100 preset in Alien Skin Exposure.

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