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Going Coastal (2 art per day)

A group for everything about the coastal areas of the world. *Scroll down and check our our Special Featured Artist ~Amy Griff and our group Avatar by Martina Cross!

Featured Work

Looking out to sea. by stephenknowles

View large to see bird on the wooden boards at the marina in Fremantle. / Taken with Nikon D80 / Featured in Going Coastal 6-Nov-09 /
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SEA by Charlene Aycock IPA

All images are the copyright of the artist – / © Charlene M. Aycock / Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, manipulating, redistributing displaying, modifying, distributing and/or selling any image without prior written consent/contract from the artist is strictly prohibited and subject to any and all legal remedies. It is also against copyright laws to upload any of my images, writings, or art to PHOTOBUCKET, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MYSPACE, FLICKR, or any other internet sight. A MONETARY SETTLEMENT for any unauthorized use, and prosecution in a US Federal Court, as well as Court Cost will be assessed. I used my Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT 350D, with EOS Lens 18-55mm. / BEST VIEWED LARGE. TAKEN AS IS. This was taken on Hwy 101. The last sign I read said Trinidad Beach in Northern California. There was a rock like cave we went into, and I took this shot from that view point, getting very wet, lol. Shutter Speed was 1/500, Focal Length was 18 mm., and F-stop and aperture value was F/13.
Diamond Head Light by GraceNotes

As my family and I hiked up the trail to the lookout atop Diamond Head, (Hawaii) the lighthouse came into view. I love the colors of the red and white light against the beautiful blue of the Pacific Ocean.
Lily Lake at sunset by Allan Erickson

Lily Lake is just north of Florence, Oregon, about 1/4 mile from the beach, along Hwy 101. Pentax istDs Best viwed larger Featured in Going Coastal, 11/06/09
Little Red Cottage by the Ocean by Monica Scanlan

Red cottage on the edge of the ocean in Manchester By The Sea in MA. 10/30/09 Nikon D300 PSE7 / /
Lake and Autumn Reflections by Daidalos

Lake Walchensee / Germany Nikon D90 Featured in Going Coastal – Nov. 06, 2009
Seafront obscured by Emma Collins

We thought we’d do a day trip to the seaside at Whitstable last week – the weather was supposed to be sunny!! It did actually clear up but I loved the eeriness of the early morning fog. Taken with a Canon EOS 450D / Aperture F5.6 / Shutter 1/1000 / ISO 200
Red Phone Boxes: Brighton Pier, UK. by DonDavisUK

Phone Boxes at Brighton Pier. Brighton East Sussex UK. Captured at Dawn in October 2009. Camera Nikon D700 with 24-120mm Lense. My first ever trip to Brighton. I set out to catch a sunrise, but was only greeted by drizzle and a bright grey sky. Ahhhh well, never mind. I’ll try again. But still had to capture a few shots. What I like about the one is the contrasting colours between the phoneboxes and the green railings.
Eagle Rock by David Hibberd

The larger of the two rock structures at Split Point. / The Great Ocean Road. / Canon 40d 10-22mm lens /
Islay: Enlightened by Kasia-D

By chance I noticed the golden reflections in the Port Ellen harbour and wondered how they came about. Somehow the way the low sunset light shone from behind me on the windows of those wee cottages made the reflections more intensive. I have several shots on a few evenings around high tide. I found the contrasts between dark and light, stone houses and water attractive. / / Location: Port Ellen harbour, Islay, Scotland, UK. / Nikon D200, Sigma 18-200mm. f/5.6, 1/125s. 126 mm. ISO 200. Tripod. / Featured in Going Coastal Lovers of the Isles may like my calendar Outer Hebridean Coastlines
The Stacks by tori yule

The Northport stacks detracting from the beauty of Asharoken. Here they are being reflected in Carters Bight, Asharoken, Northport, NY.,which happens to be my backyard. They has been reported as being one of the dirtiest power plants in the northeast. I’m not sure when they were built but I will never get over the fact that the community allowed this to happen.
Tombolo - Palm Beach - Sydney - Australia by Bryan Freeman

Palm Beach is on the left with the Pacific Ocean/Tasman Sea. On the right is Station Beach and Broken Bay. This is what is known as a Tombolo I love that word…it just rolls off the tongue, Tombolo, tombolo, tombolo…... (At least I amuse myself, if no-one else!) ;-) There is a walkway down the middle of the bushland. It’s very sandy and difficult to walk along and very, very hot, sticky and airless on a summer’s day. If you’re going to walk to the lighthouse, the best way to go is along Station Beach, close to the water where the sand is hard packed and easier to walk on. You’ll then see signs closer to the headland that will direct you to one of two paths. One is very difficult and not for the faint hearted. It’s mostly steps and steep inclines. We went up this one and were huffing and puffing by the time we reached the top, but it was fun, in a masochistic kinda way. The second walkway is much wider and has a gentler slope. We took this on the way back down and found it tough going for some reason. We wished we had gone back down the harder way! The tide was way, way out when I took these photos. You can see the exposed green sea weed along the shoreline of Station Beach. Photo taken from the top of the headland where the lighthouse is situated, 350ft above sea level. Canon EOS 400D / Canon Lens 18-55mm 3 images, HDR and tonemapped then contrast adjust again in PS

Recent Work

One Tree Point Sunrise by Melanie Roberts

Sunrise over One Tree Point, Tuross Heads, NSW
Turimetta Sunrise in Blue by Dance

Trying to capture these wonderful rock formations at sunrise in Turimetta NSW. Nikon D80 18-200mm lens, f5. My husband and I spend many hours at Turimetta beach as it offers so many different angles and opportunities.
Tapestry of Colour by Samadhi

Somewhere near Victor Harbour, South Australia
Spectacular spray by georgieboy98

It’s funny how different rocks have different spray patterns and this one at Redgate Beach, down in the far south west of Western Australia is no exception. The rock next to this one – out of shot – creates a high, bulky mass of spray, not at all like this. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get both lots at the same time – it didn’t seem to work that way! LOL / Redgate Beach itself, which is on the Indian Ocean, is a fabulous place some 350+ kms south of Perth and much loved by the surfing community / Camera Sony Alpha 350 dslr / 55-200 lens with cp filter / f8 at 1/250th / hand held
Punakaiki. by Michael Treloar

Pan Cake Rocks, Punakaiki, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand. Sunset. / Sitting on a cliff top like you see in the photo, close to the edge and a long way down.
Regal Rise by Paul McGuire

2nd shot of the sunrise on Wednesday (12/08/09). The boats on the right of the image are Scarborough’s Pleasure streamers the Regal Lady and the Coronia. The Coronia and Regal Lady go right back to the 1930’s. The Regal Lady was built in 1930, so she’ be 70 year old in 2010. She was build down at Great Yarmouth. During the 1930’s everybody stayed in Britain for their holidays, nobody went abroad they all stopped here unless you were really rich you couldn’t afford to go abroad. The main holiday maybe was a couple of days at the seaside before the 2nd World War. There wasn’t air travel so everybody wanted to go on boats. During the 1930’s all these little boats were being built, they were just turning from paddlers to diesel. In September of 1939 the 2nd World War broke out, The Coronia, two days after the war broke out was requisitioned by the admiralty she was based down at Great Yarmouth where she was named HMS Watchfull because that was the name of the base she was tied at. She had a little gun emplacement on the foredeck. In January 1940 the Regal Lady got requisitioned by the admiralty. In May 1940 there were 450,000 British soldiers in France and Belgium forced back by the German army. Germany invaded Holland which was a neutral country. They wanted to do a pincer movement (The Flanks of the opponent are attacked simultaneously in a pinching motion after the opponent has advanced towards the center of an army which is responding by moving its outside forces to the enemy’s flanks, in order to surround it. At the same time, a second layer of pincers attacks on the more extreme flanks, so as to prevent any attempts to reinforce the target unit) , If they could go through Holland and Belgium they could get the channel ports. They could cut off all the British army. The British army fell back to a place in northern France called Dunkirk and there was only one way for them to go and that was to come back here to Britain. During the 2nd week in may 1940, there were a call went out called Operation Dynamo, which meant all these little boats to go across the channel, 700 went across to Dunkirk to bring the army back called the Skylark Navy. All together it took 7 days to complete the evacuation. We know the Regal Lady went across 3 times, the Coronia is flat bottomed with a 4ft 6 inch draft so she could run onto the beaches so the soldiers could get in off the beach into these little ships then taking them out to the bigger destroyers and ferry’s which were anchored about a mile of the beach. They worked about ten days and 380,000 soldiers were brought back they think the regal lady brought back 1,200. Sir Winston Churchill and Admiral Ramsey at Dover thought they would only get 45,000 back, but because of little ships like this they managed to get all them soldiers back and meant we still had an army. In 1943 there was a build up to D-day and the Regal Lady was involved in taking American troops from the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary into Glasgow. Both boats were decommissioned in 1946 and the Coronia came here up to Scarborough in 1951 named the Yorkshire lady and the Regal lady in 1954 named Oulton Bell. When the Regal Lady came up, she was a steamer and she was coal burning right up to 1955 and since then they’ve been running in and out of Scarborough. / info:- Scarborough Maritime Heritage. Shot Settings:- Canon 400D, 18-55 lens @ 53mm / Aperture f/22 / Shutter 1/2 sec / ISO – 400 / AS IS, From Camera.
The Rebel ~ Lyme Regis by Susie Peek-Swint

One of the canoes built by the boat building academy here in Lyme Regis ~ heading out of the harbour this morning.
October Memories by suzannem73

This photo was taken on an October morning at North Myrtle Beach,SC. It is one of my favorite views of the distant highrises. The camera used was a Canon Rebel XS DSLR. The photo was blended with texture using Picasa. /
Softer Side of Ft Pickens by Pam Utton

Fort Pickens is the largest of four forts built to defend Pensacola Bay, Florida, and its navy yard. The fort was begun in 1829, completed in 1834, and used until the 1940s. Built in the age of wooden warships and cannons firing round balls, the fort underwent changes in response to advances in weapon technology following the Civil War. / Gulf Breeze FL Historic Visitor Center taken w/ Canon PowerShot A590
Sealions 2 by Werner Padarin

Australian Sea-lions / Kangaroo Island, South Australia / (ref fotoWERNER 3H0911.2948) / Nikon D300 | Sigma 120-400OS

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