Pegwell and Birchington

The Dexter cows on the South Foreland in the fleeting early sun.
The flipped new blip: Dexter cows on the South Foreland in the fleeting early sun.
Sun on a lichen encrusted elder tree at Pegwell Bay.
Sun on a lichen encrusted elder tree at Pegwell Bay.
A drainage ditch on the salt flats at Pegwell Bay, the sun now veiled behind high cloud.
A drainage ditch on the salt flats at Pegwell Bay, the sun now veiled behind high cloud.
Norfolk reeds (Phragmites australis) at Pegwell Bay catching the sun. Used extensively for thatch.
Norfolk reeds (Phragmites australis) at Pegwell Bay catching the sun. Used extensively for thatch.
Exmoor pony in bleached-out bramble, rose and privet scrub at Pegwell Bay reserve.
Exmoor pony in bleached-out bramble, rose and privet scrub at Pegwell Bay reserve.
The blip: the foreshore and wave cut chalk platform at Birchington.
The photo formerly known as 'the blip': the foreshore and wave cut chalk platform at Birchington. Attracted nil comments so replaced as an experiment.

Although I demoted the above from Blip status - the chosen one for the day - I still quite like it. There is something about the flat light, the low cliffs and extending foreshore with its darks of seaweed and lights of water and chalk that I'll return to. I came across the painting below - on the southside of the Isle of Thanet - that has something of the same quality but with a much warmer evening light in October.

Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858, by William Dyce (via WikiCommons from the Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei).
Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858, by William Dyce (via WikiCommons from the Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei).

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