distance (Abermenai Point, Anglesey)

Last weekend I went to visit my boyfriend's family in north Wales, and I took my camera. I used to take my camera almost everywhere, but for the last few years it's come with me on holidays abroad and nowhere else. Patrick's family are big into walks, so I decided to try to use it as a way to re-inspire myself. 

Abermenai Point has a couple of walking routes through the sand dunes and along the water. It wasn't an ideal photowalk as I was with a several other people who were already doing a less challenging walk than they probably would have been had I not been there (there are few things I hate more than strenuous walks at the pace of people who think it's fun and relaxing, and I have an ankle injury that makes hills extremely unfun for me), but I managed to get a few shots. 

I got these photos as we waited for it to stop raining (because of course it started raining, and of course it was too warm to comfortably wear a waterproof jacket without creating a horrendous sweat oven). When taking wide shots, the thing that interested me the most was trying to capture the faded hills in the background. It's one of my favourite things to look at, but I've always found it difficult to get what I see to come across in a still image. 

The tide was way out and everything was pretty muddy, so I didn't get any closer than this. I like the way the middle of the picture has become nothing but abstract lines, and the look of the very shallow water with the sand poking through.

I have a whole other post coming on these horses, but this shot was less about the horses and more about using depth of field to express the size of this sand dune. I would have liked to focus more on this, but I didn't want to hold everyone else up, so this was the only successful shot of this kind that I had.

I took this right at the end, on the way back to the car, when it was suddenly a beautiful day. This is my favourite shot; the hills look exactly the way I wanted them to. They're faded and technically unobtrusive when contrasted with the bright foreground, but my eye keeps straying back to them nevertheless. I also think this shot shows distance the best.

Next up: horse nonsense. Yay!