Searching for Silver

[Martyn]

View across Morecambe Bay from Heysham harbour

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bugmeister]

What a glittery expanse, well titled.

 

I love the little people to give the sense of enormity.

[ChrisLumix]

Beautiful example of contre-jour photography Martyn - I like. 

[Paul]

Quite classy Martyn. I approve greatly! 

 

Paul.

[Martyn]

Beautiful example of contre-jour photography Martyn - I like. 

 

Gonna have to look that up in me dicshunry!  

[Terry]

Really like this a lot.Nicely caught

[ChrisLumix]

Gonna have to look that up in me dicshunry!  

 

Oh sorry - it was a common enough photographic term in the 70s and 80s, but it's not one you hear a lot in the digital era for some reason. It simply means shooting against the light, and when done with water as a subject you get those lovely sparkling "silver" highlights. 

 

As you can see from this shot (many years ago now!), I was shooting into the sun - the shadows are a dead giveaway, as is the sparkle on the water.

 

[NannyFerret]

I like the sea when it looks silver,

The tiny figures show the scale. Nice one.