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A couple of weeks ago I posted some pictures of some sea glass that we had picked up on some of our beach combing trips on the beaches near to our home in Dunbar.  There are plenty of other interesting things that we have found - shells, driftwood and some old iron items that have come from boats or from the many World War II installations that are on this coast. During the Second World War the threat of invasion was felt all around the UK, including the North Sea coast of Scotland.  With the naval base at Rosyth up the coast near Edinburgh, installations were built all along the East Lothian and Fife coasts, many of which are still visible today.   These macro photographs are of a piece of old iron that is probably the top of a metal post that was used to hold rolls of barbed wire.  It is corroded pretty badly but this makes it more interesting to photograph, which I did using the Fuji X-T1 and the XF60mm f2.4 macro.   Lighting was provided by the Niss...

One of the pleasures of living by the sea is beach combing. We will go for walks on the beaches near our home in Dunbar and pick up interesting items such as driftwood, rocks, shells and sea glass.   If you don't know what sea glass is, they are pieces of glass that have been physically and chemically weathered by salt water and the action of the tides. These weathering processes produce natural frosted glass and the beaches of East Lothian are a great place to find excellent examples.  In fact one of the best beaches for collecting sea glass is less than one kilometre from our front door. Over the past year we have collected quite a few pieces of sea glass and I decided to set up a table top studio to photograph the colours, shapes and textures of some of the best bits. Using the glass from an old picture frame as a table which I raised up on some books so I could put a light underneath to shine through the pieces of sea glass I placed on the picture frame glass to...