Where land becomes sea; when day becomes night; when the tide rests at its height: these are liminal times and liminal places where the veil that hides the Other-World becomes a permeable thing and allows the magic to slip through. Sometimes we just happen to be there to catch it.
Sunset over Breydon Water: photo taken 6th August 2018
The recent heat wave has held me away. But tempted out by a cooler evening, I took the camera for a walk along Breydon Water, and hit just the right time.
#2018picoftheweek: Sunset, though strictly speaking this isn’t sunset. Technically there was still an hour to go. But the conditions were perfect.
Sunset on Breydon #2: Photo 6th August 2018
Breydon Water is a tidal estuary that sits at the back of Great Yarmouth; the remants of the Great Estuary into which flows three main rivers of Norfolk (England). And being on my doorstep, one of my favourite haunts.
crispina kemp 
Absolutely the right time! I love those light rays.
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The light was magical. You’d not believe how many photos I took, and I kept thinking, this isn’t going to capture the moment. Yet most of those photos did. Then came the problem of choosing which one for this post.
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I know those problems… that sometimes the camera cannot capture the magic of the moment. And then when it does, WHICH pic do I go with???
I’ve learned that there’s no point in keeping too many multiples of the same shot. Sometimes, I just pick one and go with it. If I have different angles, I pick the best from each angle. And then I either delete the others. Or sometimes put them in a folder to be deleted at a later time. That way if I change my mind in few days, I can rescue a photo.
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I keep the best and use them as a randomised slide-show on my laptop. Within a week I can usually delete out about 25% of them. After the next photo shoot, these’s another collection of photos to serve as a slide-show.
Mostly the photos weren’t ‘more of the same’. I walked along beside the water and took a photo at every so many steps. The clouds were in constant flux, and the old wrecks and vegetation in the shallows also changed. Across the many photos I took, there was a lot of variety. Also, I was walking for about 1 1/2 hours, so the sun was slipping ever nearer the water, the sky was growing ever darker ….
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Stunning, Crispina! Absolutely the best timing… and I know what you mean about thinking none will do the view justice and then, how to choose..
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But what to do with the other 80-plus photos!
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Buahaha! Try really hard to pick and choose and chuck…
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Na-na-na. They make a wonderful chill-out slide-show on the laptop. I never chuck. Though I do save onto USB and get rid of from the harddrive.
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Ah well… My brother-in-law will take 72 pictures of a sunset. Dude… pick and choose, show us the nice evolution and the rest? Buh-bye!!
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I’m not a hoarder. Until it comes to photos. Now they’re digital they take up so little space. Though I am accumulating USB sticks!
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LOL! Still…how many of the same image does one need? I have forced myself to choose because… what to so with them all? No one wants to see 63 pics of basically the same cloud… including me! It’s hard and I sometimes doubt my choice… then realise I almost never go back…
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But they’re not all the same. Okay: sky, sunset, water. But also various wrecks with various birds and various plant material and various ‘harbour furniture’. Plus the sun was slipping the entire time. The photos were taken across a one and a half hour period. Loads of atmospheric changes in that time. No, can’t discard them.
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I am teasing you. They are yours to do with ad you wish! 😘
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I did think of posting one a day, but their appeal might wear thin very quickly. 🙂
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I would think… 😉
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