I can barely remember the last time I got to take my camera out to capture a landscape photograph, so when I found myself passing close to Termonfeckin beach in Louth the other day, and with all of about five minutes to spare, I decided to take a short diversion off the motorway to go and see if I could find a photograph. The light wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t terrible. And the camera I had in the boot of the car was my Fuji X100, so in theory, at least, it should have been up to the job. It was.
The fact that it was Termonfeckin beach I diverted to wasn’t a complete accident – I’ve been meaning to go suss it out for a while – but I wasn’t sure if I would find any sort of a photo there. Bearing in mind that the lens on the X100 is a fixed (wide-ish) 35mm, I was going to be pretty much tied to, well, wide-ish images. And if the beach was totally featureless, which many can be on the east coast, that might have been a challenge.
Over the course of five minutes where I barely strolled 100m from the path to the beach – time was tight – I found a few vantage points to allow me to live within the constraints of the fixed focal length lens, my favourite being the low vantage point that allowed me to frame the shot above.
Here were some other photos I captured before needing to jump back into the car and continue on my way:
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