The sun doesn’t shine every day

Remember when you used to buy postcards of the places you visited – did you notice that the photographs were always taken on sunny days. Even Cromer shops sold postcard views of the resort bathed in sunshine.

I know you won’t be surprised to learn that isn’t always the case. A few weeks ago when most of the UK was enjoying wall to wall sunshine, up here on the North Norfolk coast we had gloomy, chilly conditions as the prevailing wind blew clouds ashore off the North Sea. There wasn’t actually any rain accompanying the clouds – simply murk and lots of it.

On days like that shouldn’t aspiring photographers stay at home? If they had any sense they would but I went off with the camera anyway.

It seems to be the case when that happens you have to make your own photographs. Take what is there, play about with it for a while and see what comes up.

Half of my readers (all two of them) will conclude I am trying to be artistic – the realists will conclude that I was bored! Judge for yourself.

QUESTION Did you really take all these two weeks ago?

Perhaps not the last one- I had to have at least one picture that was indisputably Cromer. That one was taken two years ago. If you look really hard at it you may recognise some of the figures. There is also a surreptitious link between the last image and the banner picture. Who’s a cunning lad?

Have a good weekend