The Jurassic Coast, Dorset.

thebigsky

Hi, I've just spent a lovely week on holiday with the family down in Dorset on the south coast of England. Its coastline has recently been awarded UNESCO World Heritage Site status due to it's extraordinary geology.

I've taken an overwhelming amount of images, but here are two I've so far managed to PP.

This was taken at a bay at Seatown, where an abundance of fossils are easily found.:-



This was taken at Durdle Door:-



There's plenty more to come, eventually :wink

Thanks for looking,

Charlie

schmoo

Gorgeous lighting and colors there! The first one seems to be exploding in my face. I wish I could see the photos bigger because I can tell there is a lot of detail in them.

What kind of fossils have you found? Shells and the like?

Andy

thebigsky wrote:

This was taken at Durdle Door:-

I've been in this exact spot Love it. Nice job, Charlie!

kriyababaji

Great shots, love the key color in the first one.

Shane

thebigsky

schmooo wrote:

Gorgeous lighting and colors there! The first one seems to be exploding in my face. I wish I could see the photos bigger because I can tell there is a lot of detail in them.

What kind of fossils have you found? Shells and the like?

Thanks Schmoo, I was certainly blessed with a good sky that night, these are some of the first pics I've taken with my new 1DS and there's certainly a lot of detail in there, however I'm really not happy with my 17-40L now, it's so soft around the edges it's beginning to really annoy me.

I didn't find any fossils, I was too busy with my camera, but my father-in-law was of hunting and found some ammonites.

Here's a link to a site showing some finds:-

http://www.seatown.ukfossils.co.uk/Seatown-Fossils-Geology/fossil-photos.htm

Charlie

thebigsky

Andy wrote:

I've been in this exact spot Love it. Nice job, Charlie!

Hi Andy, thanks, it's certainly a well photographed location, I had seen a picture taken by someone else with the sun setting through the arch, however it must have been during winter as the sun set behind the mainland whilst I was there, still I was chuffed with the cloud formations.

Charlie

thebigsky

kriyababaji wrote:

Great shots, love the key color in the first one.

Shane

Thanks Shane, I've also got a landscape version of the same location with even more colour, but I don't think the composition is as strong. I'm going to post a few more when they're done, I've just finished a B/W of Portland which I'm pleased with:-



Charlie

thebigsky

I'm slowly working my way through my holiday pics, here's another from Seatown, maybe some might consider it over-cooked, in fact I think I'm starting to:-



Charlie