On the beach

[tobyaw]

What a lovely day to live near a beach.

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Comments

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

What a great spot!

[kateaw]

The water was jolly cold!

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

Did you get any shots of crabs or other shellfish?

[tobyaw]

No. I’m not particularly interested in the animal world, so they’re not something I’d point a camera at.

It was lovely bright and sunny today. The blue sky doesn’t really show in the photo.

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

It's been brilliant sunshine all around the UK recently! Are you a vegetarian btw?

[tobyaw]

Yes, have been a vegetarian since August 1995. (Just woke up one day and decided that I wouldn't eat any more meat, as I'd never enjoyed it.)

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the controvercial question but do you just ignore the presence of animal life?

[tobyaw]

Not particularly; I just find much more interest in pointing my camera at people (or at man-made structures).

(Having attended the local photography club for a year some time ago, I grew deadly bored of viewing yet another landscape or nature photograph - it was all people seemed to photograph.)

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

So I'm guessing that you'd be happy living in a Metropolis and never see the natural world for real ever again?

[tobyaw]

No! I like being near the sea. But the natural world is just the background for people.

Definitely happiest in a small town, though - where people and places are familiar.

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

WADR The natural world would work much better without humans defacing it. Towns and Cities will crumble & fall but Planet Earth will still be here in all it's glorious beauty long after Mankind is extinct. It deserves our upmost reverence!

[ioevri1.livejournal.com]

what a great photo!

[tobyaw]

As soon as we hit the school holidays, St Andrews came alive. There are so many holiday-makers in town — the playground near the beach has been buzzing with lots of children the last couple of weeks.