Posted on March 31, 2026
This week’s challenge is to display image(s) captured with a mobile phone rather than a traditional camera. That’s no problem for me as, despite the name of this blog, I no longer own a D800 – or any photographic device other than my trusty iPhone 14 Pro Max.
I gave our dear daughter all my traditional photographic ‘kit’ a couple of years ago: she’s a much better photographer than I am. You can find her work on Facebook and Instagram at NJC Photography. Take a look, then tell me I’m wrong.
In practice, I don’t really miss having a ‘proper’ camera. The iPhone delivers perfectly good images and there are plenty of apps to give it an extra boost if you want to. Plus, it doesn’t weigh a ton.
Anyway, I snapped this in the Yorkshire seaside resort of Scarborough last summer. If you’re viewing it on a desktop screen, I suggest you lean back in your chair for the best effect, rather than hunch forward. Leaning back just a little emphasises the leading lines formed by the breaking wave at the top of the picture and more detail on the rest of the water.
Either way, you get a human figure with both a reflection and a shadow. What more could you want?

Lens-Artists Challenge: Mobile Phone
Category: Landscape, Uncategorized Tagged: beach, iPhone photography, Lens-Artists, Scarborough, seascape, Texture
Posted on August 21, 2024
Not all dogs are afraid of water. This pooch is frolicking very happily at the beach of Watson’s Bay, near Sydney.

Monochrome Madness: At the beach
Category: Black & White Tagged: beach, Black & White, Dogs, Monochrome-Madness, Water
Posted on June 23, 2021
My grandson doing his King Canute impression here by trying to turn back the tide on the beach at St Andrews.
Result: predictable. But full marks for trying.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sand
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: beach, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Family, Sand, St Andrews
Posted on August 5, 2020
At this time of year In Abu Dhabi, it’s way too hot to spend much time on the beach or in the water, so these colourful pedalos find themselves beached for the duration.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Anything Bicycles or Tricycles
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Abu Dhabi, beach, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Pedalos
Posted on February 22, 2018
This anonymous dog-walker, lost in his own thoughts but with his faithful pet loyally tagging along, may not even have noticed the exceptionally blue sea on a perfect autumn day at St Andrews harbour – nor all the other people with their dogs that surrounded him: at a respectful, privacy-preserving, distance, of course.

Weekly Photo Challenge: A Face In The Crowd
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: A Face In The Crowd, Anonymous, beach, Dogs, Seaside, St Andrews, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on January 14, 2017
Ambience: the sense of a place. This is poolside at the hotel on Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. Quite possibly one of the most relaxing places we have ever been to (several times).

Weekly Photo Challenge: Ambience
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Ambience, beach, seascape, Sir Bani Yas, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on June 13, 2015
In Abu Dhabi, August is off-season for anything to do with the beach – it’s just too hot. Which is why these pedalos were left high and dry on the sand until things started to cool off a bit.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Off-Season.
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Abu Dhabi, beach, colours, Off-Season, Pedalos, Sunlight, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on April 27, 2015
Ah, the jet-ski: the noisy scourge of the Abu Dhabi beach. At least this one had the good grace to be a red foreground object.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Abu Dhabi, beach, Jet=skis, Motion, noise pollution, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge