CUT and DRY : UK

Bantham Beach, one of Devon's best known beaches, UK. {Photos taken in November 2010.}

It has been nearly seven months since my last trip to Devon, but these photographs keep making me feel happy.

I'm excited to share these images with you and take you all on a journey within my photos.

Bantham Beach is a beautiful sandy beach on the south coast of Devon, UK, ideal for water-sports, especially surfing.

I love to watch people surfing.

I'd love to take a stroll down the Bantham beach. I've been feeling the travel bug pretty strongly as of late.

Composition And Perspective

A brilliant photographer and wise person once told me.
"Use your creativity to:

*"build" your image,

*figure out what perspective would be best,

*make your photographs tell a story."

Actually, I've seen pictures with stunning color combination and perfect exposure - taken with big, fancy, expensive cameras, but they look quite ordinary. Because in my opinion they lack two major things:

Composition and perspective.

If you're into photography you may have heard of "The Rule of Thirds". It is one of the basic techniques and refers to the way a composition is constructed. (Of course, there are many Photography Composition Rules - but rules are meant to be broken, right?

The Rule of Thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds- both horizontally and vertically. Ideally your picture will fall in or near one of those intersections. (Highlighted in red.) The human eye tends to be more interested in images that are divided into three parts, vertically and horizontally, with the subject falling at or along one of those divisions.