Today’s installment takes us back to Cornwall, in the far South West of England. It was a hot, very sunny day and the family decided it was beach time, leaving them sunning themselves I went to explore, climbing cliffs and walking the beach in order to find suitable subjects.
The foreshore was marked by a section of rocks stretching out into the water and I fired a few shots off but was not happy with the resulting images; something was missing. I sat and pondered before creating this image:
As I sat there it struck me that there was little variation between the flat, smooth rocks, what was needed was foreground interest. I selected a large rocky outcrop and dragged / rolled a sizeable boulder to it and managed to sit it atop, this was followed by several more boulders of varying colour & texture and decreasing size, until I had built a rather large Cairn.
By this time about 12 people had gathered on the cliff path to watch, undeterred I set up camera and tripod and shot a series of brackets from varying angles, I realised that what started as an object of foreground interest was actually better as the main subject and lowered my viewpoint to isolate the rocks against the sky.
Content that I had enough shots in the can I packed up and went to rejoin my family, stopping only to take down the Cairn, which by now was receiving interest from the onlookers.
Once home I selected the image I wanted and set to processing, my initial thought was to process as colour HDR, but I preferred the Black and White image above. I selected a single frame and processed in Photoshop, adjusting curves and minor tonal adjustments to give the image shown.
A Brief Moment in Time 
Now that’s how you make a picture as opposed to taking a picture. Great job Chris.
Thanks Len, but I knocked it down quick when I saw the onlookers were going to copy my shot. Got to work for that…!
Great shot Chris. Very creative and I love the B&W.
Thank you Edith. It’s been a good few months for me creatively and it’s great to see so many positive comments and more so to make new friends
Wowsers, Chris, talk about bleeding for your work! That’s awesome initiative to visualize and then realize your vision! Truly inspirational, my friend!
I knew I wanted something that was not there when I realized what it was it became simple
Lovely and creative shot. Love the B&W treatment on this and the POV is superb.
Thanks Jimi, as I commented earlier I needed something and ended up creating it. Photoshop is so last year I’m editing the scenery now
I was going to ask why you knocked it down but then you said it in comments. I’m glad you stuck with b&w for this.
If I hadn’t been watched while I was making it I would have left it there. But as I walked away they were already approaching with cameras. I mean get your own idea you know