Landscape Pictures
Durdle Door on the Dorset Coast was a place that I wanted to photograph before I left the UK for home. I wasn’t too hopeful about the weather then as strong winds, rain and floods along the south coast of the UK made travel tricky. Thankfully, the weather cleared up when we finally arrived at Durdle Door. Dad has a similar version of this shot with a different colour balance due to our different cameras and processing.
This picture was taken near the Valley of Rocks on the north Devon coast. The title in Chinese means literally “Thinking of eating trodden grass” which is a play on the Chinese idiom “好马不吃回头草”. The idiom literally means “A good horse does not look back to eat grass” which can be translated to mean that a smart person does not dwell on past actions.
Summer should soon be in full swing in the UK. With the long weekend holiday ongoing now for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, I can imagine the long line of visitors to the beaches and countryside. The above was taken at a quieter time during our visit to Rhosilli Bay on the Gower Peninsula in February this year. Similar to my earlier post, I have aimed for a wide-picture view with the composition (despite using a fairly long focal length), making the figures of the surfers tiny to reflect the scale of the scene in front of me then.