Depending on the season and the tide, this corner of the beach where the Mousam River meets the sea is either pebble or sand, as the pebble bed is alternately exposed and covered. This summer there is an extensive reach of pebble showing, here somewhat exaggerated by the low angle and the tight crop on the sky. The sky was blank blue…not a cloud in sight…so there was no temptation to keep it in the image any more than was necessary to provide scale. I like the somewhat radiating lines of the pebbles, combed by the tide, and the lone lady in the camp-chair on the right. (This was very early on a Saturday morning. Even by the time I left, the beach was a lot more populated than it is here.)

The second view features one of the larger pebbles…a rock by almost anyone’s standards…in an even tighter crop.

Nikon Coolpix P500 at 23mm equivalent field of view. f4.5 @ 1/800th @ ISO 160. Program with Active D-Lighting. Shot with the flip out LCD out, from a few inches above the pebbles and sand. Both shots.

Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness.

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