Photographs

Eight frames from one stretch of shore. Each opens at full size.

All of them are scans of negatives, made with a camera over a light panel and left uncropped. The grain is the film's. Dust that survived the bathroom has been left where it fell.

A dark breakwater running out into a pale grey sea under a flat sky — Breakwater at low water, before nine. HP5 Plus rated at 1600, 1/60 s at f/8.

From the note The same roll in three developers.

A smooth dark sea and a sky brightening towards a sharp horizon — Ninety seconds, half an hour after sunset. FP4 Plus, f/16, orange filter.

From the note Metering without a meter: Sunny 16 at the shore.

A row of wooden posts receding into misty water — Groyne posts on the ebb. Delta 100, forty-five seconds at f/11.

From the note A tide table is an exposure tool.

Dark rocks standing in surf turned to mist by a long exposure — Surf over rocks, twenty seconds. FP4 Plus behind ten stops of grey glass.

From the note Salt, sand and mechanical shutters.

A marker post standing in fog over flat water — Fog bank, no horizon to speak of. HP5 Plus at 400, 1/125 s at f/11.

From the note Stand development: one hour, no hands.

Long streaks of cloud over a low dark headland and a narrow band of sea — Wind from the west, eight minutes. Pan F Plus, red filter.

From the note Yellow, orange, red: filters over grey water.

A pier at night with four lamps reflected in still water — Pier lamps, four minutes. Acros II, which hardly needs correcting for the time.

From the note Long exposures at dusk and reciprocity.

A soft square picture of groyne posts and a bright horizon — Pinhole, 6×6, fourteen seconds. Soft everywhere, sharp nowhere.

From the note A pinhole on the pier.