On sunday I walked from Hopton on Sea to Southwold and back. This round journey took fourteen hours to complete. A distance that I would roughly equate to walking to Norwich from the village I live in. The time and the distance themselves alone being secondary to what I wanted to achieve. Which was to actively engage myself with the landscape through experience for narratives. By that I mean rather than blandly just stand there and indiscriminateatly take images try to activly intereact with the landscape itself. A photograph could just be something you take just from the inside of a car or from a building.
This shoreline is very interesting in the way it negotiates its existance with the all pervasive sea. Pictured above is a dead tree still standng at South Cove on the way to Southwold. In the distance you could make out the spire of St Edmunds and Southwold pier. Even Sizewell nuclear power station was visible from here.
Must start to use a tent to achieve greater distances. But travel light and life becomes easier. I was using just a two megapixel Kodak camera and my Pentax P30T film SLR. On this day there was very little cloud until walking back on this sunny summers day. This journey needs to be repeated for the reasons of what was missed, to be continued, a change of weather and the time of day.
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