Beach Escape
Self-Portrait (/alt. camera), originally uploaded by outdoor_type.
Needing a break from the many, many games of college football playing on the television today I escaped from the house and headed over to Pine Island, a recreational area that faces Port Royal Sound.
It was about an hour before sunset when I arrived and a low ceiling of clouds created a premature dusky light. Wind whipped whitecaps pushed against the beach and overhead the trees rustled and creaked. I climbed out across the large rocks dropped to hold the land in place and first photographed a gnarly tree that won’t last many more storms. The beach was mostly deserted and the only sound came from the wind and the waves.
Dressed in jeans and a sweater I stayed mostly warm but my exposed hands were quickly chilled, the heavy metal cameras efficiently conducted my body heat away into the air. This was not ideal photography weather, and yet, it was not raining, and there was still some usable light to mess around with, and the sights and sounds of the tv games were not yet erased from my brain, so I stayed.
The results of my little expedition can be seen on Flickr (including the shot above in which I pointed two cameras at each other and then set off the self-timers creating a sort of silly meta shot). I should mention this idea of turning the cameras on themselves is not original and would not have appeared if not for Heather’s suggestion.
