Many many years ago, somewhere around here was the site of my first serious photo made with a large-format camera. Known as "Crail Harbour Rocks", it concentrated on the sea lapping around a collection of submerged boulders like mist. This is different - not least for being entirely digital - yet it shares enough similarities to merit being regarded as Version 2 of the original theme. Partly submerged blue pebbles and Devonian Old Red Sandstone on the shore at Crail harbour. This time the water is clear, almost invisible - but the process of stacking images for effect was reused.
Quite a few years ago, I had just acquired a large-format view-camera (a Shen-Hao); for a first excursion, I took it to Crail in Fife and made an interesting study of the boulders submerged at the water’s edge on the beach.
Fast-forward five years, and I returned to the same beach in Crail with a little Sony NEX-7 camera and retook the same image-brief:
- Crail
- closeup
- water and rocks
- multiple superimposed exposures
The differences a few yards, a few years, and a different day can make! Enough, perhaps, to justify titling the new image “Crail Harbour Rocks (2)”.