Rust

I love the look of rusted things. The colours, the texture if the item has started to rot away and how it looks when the rust runs onto surrounding items as well.

I saw these rusted items and loved how they looked. It looks like building waste that has been used to help 'shore' up a cliffside. The rust is unusual in colour and I'm guessing that the salt water that is has been exposed to would explain that.

These shots are of two pieces of rusted metal and two shots of each piece. And yes, this is some of what I was shooting when I was swarmed by those seagulls...

Attack of the Birds

Yesterday Chris and I went to Dallas Rd. and went climbing on some rocks on the beach that I haven't explored in years. At one point I was trying very hard to balance on a wobbly rock, that was balancing on a wobbly log, to try to capture this rusted piece of metal that was sticking out of the side of the cliff.

Suddenly there were about 50 seagulls swarming at me.

There was a guy on the ground right above my head who decided to start feeding bread to the seagulls (don't even get me started on that) and the gulls were coming for the food.

They were swooping in so close to my head that I was actually getting startled-not only for how close they were but for fear of being hit with poop. Luckily that didn't happen but Chris did comment afterwards that a few times he thought that some seagulls actually bumped into my head (if they did I didn't notice).

It was enough to make me say "Blech!".

So here are the seagull shots that I was able to get as I was being air-bombed while balancing on the wobbly rock.

I know that this one is out of focus but I really do love the colour of the sunset and the contrast of the black seagulls against it.

These last two are seagulls when they weren't swarming me.

I like these ones much better than the other ones. They didn't startle me...

Seagulls (sorry you non-bird lovers)

So what do seagulls do when it's windy out? Well they line up on a roof ridge!



While this may not be an interesting photo of the birds, I liked how the roof looked.

Windy Day at the Beach.

Sorry that these are a bit later being posted, and there are more to come still, as I took them on Friday. It was very windy so we went down to the beach to see if there were some interesting waves crashing on the beach.

Well this wasn't the best idea for a couple reasons.

The first is that it was so windy that I kept getting pushed around. When I got home there were very few usable shots as most were too blurry from my moving in the wind.

The second is that we were getting blasted with salt-water spray. Probably not good for the camera (or our car either). I was also not the biggest fan of it in my mouth and eyes.

The last reason why this wasn't the best day to go shooting photos is that we got stuck in a downpour and were soaking wet by the time we walked back to the car. Not good on so many levels.

This has re-affirmed my decision that at some point I would like to get a smaller point and shoot camera-and for around here, preferably somthing a bit more rain and weather proof.

I like this one-even if it's not 100% in focus. I guess it makes the waves look like they have a bit more motion to them. I also like how the rock on the righ-hand side looks like a face. Made me smile when I first saw it on the computer.

There are more coming from my mis-adventure-hopefully tomorrow. I know. Famous last words...

Corroded Metal Rings

At the bottom of an old, no longer used boat ramp, embeded in the rock and getting a beating by the logs was a lone corroded metal ring that in it's past life would have been used to tie up boats. Now it just sits there rusting.