These images were taken on the Dorset Coast (Jurassic Coast) in between Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door. It is a place called Man O’ War Cove. They were taken on separate trips (it is just about a day trip for me … 2.5 hours each way) and illustrate many things …

The first and foremost is what a beautiful location this is.

And the next is that this view no longer exists. Some months after the second trip a huge section of the cliff on the left collapsed, fortunately at night so no one was injured on this popular section of the coast.  I have not had a chance to return so the view may still be beautiful, yet it will be a different view.  The lesson is that we do not live on a dead rock hurtling through space, it is constantly changing, so  make images of what is there now as it may not be there tomorrow.

And though both images were taken on bright sunny days, the state of the sea is very different. That is one of the joys of landscape photography. You can visit the same place again and again and it will be different every time. Thank goodness for digital cameras and large memory cards.

Oh and red really does help draw your eye into the picture; in one case some canoes on the beach, the other someone with a red jacket. Purely fortuitous, I did not photoshop them in. Part of image making is luck.

And now I am back off to Australia for Christmas, so I may have few chances to post images until the new year.