Bridport harbour

Bridport in Dorset is a small market town two miles inland from a small harbour. This is often, unsurprisingly, called Bridport Harbour, but it also goes by the name West Bay. The harbour has the usual collection of pleasure craft and a small number of inshore fishing boats. It is something of a tourist destination and its desirability as a place to live is attested by the housing built on West Cliff, the 1885 terrace called Pier Terrace, and Quay West, two blocks of modern flats seen on the far side of the harbour in the photograph above.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Nikon Z 5

Boats at Beer, Devon

You get a great sense of the continuity of life when you see fishing boats sharing a beach with yachts and other recreational vessels. Many, if not most, of the small havens and ports of the UK's coast began life because of the need for fishing and it is good to see them still engaged in that activity. With reference to yesterday's post, the two fishing boats here are registered at Falmouth (FH) and Penzance (PZ).

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

Fishing boats, Weymouth harbour

All the fishing boats of the UK have a prominent registration code displayed on their hull. This comprises one or two letters that identifies their home port and a number that is unique to the individual boat. The red, black and white boat in the foreground of this photograph originates from Littlehampton (LI) and the blue and white boat in the background is in its home port of Wemouth (WY).

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

Cliffs, beach and boats at Beer, Devon

The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site that stretches 96 miles from Exmouth, Devon to Studland Bay, Dorset. It is renowned for its cliff exposures of almost continuous geology from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and particularly the range of fossils associated with those eras. Some of the earliest palaeontology took place on this coast. The cliffs at Beer feature chalk of the Cretaceous period.

The commercial fishing at Beer seems to feature a wide range of English Channel fish and shellfish.

 photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

Sunbeams and showers, Lytham

For twenty years of my life I lived within two miles of the Lancashire coast. It was a time when I relished photographing the shoreline, the sea and the skies above it, and appreciated how the weather could transform very familiar photographic scenes. The beach at Lytham always had inshore fishing boats, tractors and buoys, and the view always had something of both the sea and an estuary about it. In this photograph I had my camera turned seawards, away from where the River Ribble enters the Irish Sea, because the sunbeams and showers off the coast made such compelling subjects.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus E-300     2005

Fishing boats, South End Quay, Boston

Finding a new photograph of a familiar subject that you have recorded before is part of the pleasure of photography. I've photographed the fishing boats by the quay at South End, Boston, on a couple of occasions before. I've also considered a shot from the location used in the photograph above (the bridge that carries John Adams Way over the River Witham). However, on those occasions the light was working against me: the other day it was better. Moreover, the new housing that has been under construction for a while is now almost complete and added considerably to the shot.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100