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Belhaven Bay is the closest beach to our home in Dunbar, just 0.5 miles from our doorstep at the top of the hill by Winterfield Golf Course.  Due to the vast expanse of sand this 3-mile sandy beach never really gets busy but it does attract plenty of visitors when the sun decides to come out. Last Sunday we went for a walk along the length of the beach and were joined by surfers kayakers, fishermen, dog walkers, runners and cyclists. Using the X100 I captured some of the activities happening on the beach as we strolled along in the spring sunshine and feeling very privileged to be able to call such a beautiful place our home. All images taken on a Fujifilm X100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. -----------------------------------...

Today was a beautiful sunny winters day in East Lothian so we wrapped up warm and headed down to Belhaven Bay for a walk on the sand.  The long 3km beach attracts a lot of surfers and with some good waves on offer Belhaven was busy with people bedecked in wetsuits and carrying surf or body boards. I decided to take the Fujifilm X-T1 fitted with the Fujinon 56mm f1.2 lens on the walk, with the 18mm f2 in my coat pocket if I needed a wide angle lens.  As it happened I decided to keep the 56mm fitted to the camera and set about capturing some of the scenes on the beach as the surfers braved the very cold North Sea. With the tide on the turn the wet sand shimmered in the bright Scottish sun, so I decided to try and use this reflective surface as the surfers walked towards the water. The colour of the water, the bright blue sky and the yellow sand provided a very colourful subject, which I duly captured using the camera's RAW and JPEG mode, with the later set to 'Ve...

The weather is improving as winter slips away and spring takes hold.  More people are heading down to Belhaven Bay to enjoy the wide, flat sands and on Saturday we took the opportunity to go for the first walk of April since my return from eight days of working at Paul Ricard in the South of France. At low tide the beach is perfect for horse riders, who take advantage of the area to give their steeds a good run out.  We spotted these two riders and I waited until they were in the centre of the area of wet sand to capture the reflection. The second shot shows one of the many surfers heading towards the North Sea with Winterfield Golf Club on the headland behind.  While spring is coming I'm not sure that the sea is warm enough to brave quite yet - maybe by August but definitely not in April. Images taken on a Fujifilm X100 and Fujinon 23mm f2 lens --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Belhaven Bay is a big draw for surfers, kayakers and swimmers and during our walk yesterday morning we spotted this lone surfer.   It was another good test for the new Fujinon 55-200mm f3.5/f4.8 lens I acquired a couple of weeks ago and is long overdue a review on this blog. The surfer was waiting and waiting for the right wave to break and, after a long time, he eventually he got his wish but the waves were pretty small.  This reminded me of an old Guinness advert called 'Here's to Waiting' - Images taken on a Fujifilm X-Pro1 and 55-200mm f3.5/4.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ----------------------------------------------------------...

Walking down to Belhaven Bay this evening in some glorious winter sunshine (see it doesn't always rain in Scotland) to grab some test shots for my blog on the first three months with the Fuji X-Pro1 we spotted this kayak surfer paddling out from Biel Water to catch the waves as the sun set across East Lothian. The images were taken on the Fuji XP1 and 60mm f2.4 lens and then cropped slightly in PSE11. Kayak Surfing in East Lothian Paddling out to catch another wave for the ride back to the beach Timing it right to catch the wave Big waves in Belhaven Bay this evening You can make out the conoeist in the surf as the sun set on Belhaven Bay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - t...