Some shots of Madness at the launch event for Hastings Pier last Saturday… All taken with a Canon Eos 5D. What a pleasure to be able to focus properly in low light in a way that my A7r just isn’t capable of
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A Walk on the New Hastings Pier
We visited the revamped and revitalised Hastings Pier on Saturday. This was a rewarding experience as my wife was a trustee for a couple of years and I was a core volunteer. We both contributed to setting up the shop and providing it’s best selling product and my wife was key in appointing the design team via an RIBA run competition, so has a particular interest in how the project has turned out.
We reckon the Architects – dRMM have done as well as they could – Budgetary constrains mean the buildings are not as exciting as originally planned but the results are really good when you are close up to them, with a high standard of detailing. The crucial thing is that, unlike so may of England’s grand piers this one has a future.
A gallery of images;
Santa
Spied these lurking in a hastings junk shop a while back… Hope everyone out there in cyber land has a happy xmas 2015 and here’s to a creatively fruitful 2016!!
Funky flowers
Sometime the things you see hanging off a rear view mirror are amazing! There’s another, earlier shot below too, both taken in St Leonard’s-on-Sea.
Bar
This is the Bar and living room in our new seaside holiday rental in Hastings which is finally taking shape! Bith shot with the Sony A7r using Canon TS-E glass, the upper one with the Wonderful 17mm and the other using the much maligned, but in my experience (Good copy?) pretty decent 45mm.
Spring
living in a seaside town, the first discarded ice cream cones are a sure indicator summer is approaching!
FOOD
I’m not sure that I’d want to buy what these guys are selling. Theres definitely a mixed message in the brand…
The Machine Man
Not a great photo, but I think it’s a really cool thing. Walking past the seafront shops at Marin Court, St Leonards on Sea I spotted this nifty take on Kraftwerk’s classic ‘Man Machine’ album cover in St Leonards the other day – a recent creation by St Leoanards based iDLEHANDS t-shirts – celebrating the fact that Turing’s early education was in St Leonards, where his family lived until he was 14. Taken with my A7r which is finally back in my hands after taking a month to get repaired by Park Cameras.
