Dungeness

[squirmelia]

More than three years later than this entry about Dungeness: 02/04/05, I still frequently imagine myself wandering across the shingle and ignoring the power stations, but instead peering into the ramshackle huts and gazing out to sea. When I last visited Dungeness, a few weeks ago, a storm was brewing. The end of a rainbow could be seen, and I ran against the wind, and over the shingle, trying to get photos of the rainbow, next to the striped lighthouse. In my photos, the rainbow is barely visible, and appears like a little blotchy aberration of colour.

The Pilot was closed, so I sat on the shingle, watching the clouds, imagining dowsing for water in the desert, and wondering who I'd meet if I spent every spare moment in Dungeness, perhaps waiting for the little huts to collapse more and more, so I could take photos of them from every angle.

The rain pounded down and my lightning-bolt umbrella turned inside out, again and again, as I rushed across from Derek Jarman's house to one of the huts I had photographed before, that had sadly fallen down some time ago and was lying sprawled out on the ground, abandoned.

Photos on Flickr: Dungeness.

Comments

[battlekitty.livejournal.com]

They're lovely atmospheric photos.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Dungeness is just such an atmospheric place! I wish I'd had more time there a few weeks ago, but the weather was awful.

Hut hut

[janieluk.livejournal.com]

Re: Hut hut

[janieluk.livejournal.com]

You edited the post and made me less relevant. No fair!

Re: Hut hut

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Obviously you just replied too fast. :P

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

I love Jarman's work.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

His garden is quite nice too. :)

[nickmurdoch.livejournal.com]

It's frustrating how rainbows never take well to being photoed; they have to be really strong to even show faintly. :(

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Definitely.

This one in Southampton worked okay, but doesn't look quite real, due to it being HDR!

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/squirmelia/410364048/)

[janieluk.livejournal.com]

The trees have an aura, like a Kirlian photograph thingummy. So do the windows. It does look freaky in a good way.