Great British Summer?

Yet another photograph competition I'm going to enter!

Tollesbury (again!)

I seem to have been going to Tollesbury a lot recently. Plus I've taken to carrying my camera literally everywhere I go.

The sky was looking really beautiful tonight though and I really wanted a good photo of the sunset over the marina.

I took my normal SLR (Nikon D3000) with me, as well as an old film camera of my dad's (which actually has a better zoom than my camera :( ) which I'll need to get developed, plus my sister brought her digital camera, so I should have a good selection of photos to go through.

Here are a few samples:

My sister sitting on my favourite bench.

I'm not really sure what it is about this bench that appeals to me so much, I guess it's that it just looks so lonely and desolate up on that hill.

It seems to be my new thing, to take a portrait photo with the foreground just at the bottom of the photo then the great expanse of sky. I like this technique, it gives the impression that the sky goes on forever and ever (which it pretty much does, hence why I think it's so amazing!)

Abberton Reservoir.

I made a little detour on my way home from work experience today, to try and capture the sunlight over Abberton Reservoir. I think I succeeded :)

I spent a lot longer there than I had originally planned (I left work at half 5 and didn't get home until 7 :S) because there were so many feathers! And really nice and different feathers too, like from geese and swans. The ones I really wanted were all out of reach (there was a fence) but I still probably picked up about 50, of all shapes and sizes, including some really long ones :) a good haul.

I love the way you can see the rays of sun breaking through the clouds :)

The reflection on the water in these is amazing.