Or maybe I’m still a kid that wants to rooting through the sand and turn over rocks to see what I can find?

Just to explain, however—I cropped the top image somewhat, from a larger shot. The bottom one is pretty much as is. So in terms of the composition of the first one, it was ex-post-facto. I find that cropping photos can tend to enhance them a lot.

DNW:

It wasn’t morning. You probably won’t see many photographs I take in the morning—I am not a morning person! It was about 3 or 4 in the afternoon, and the light conditions were really extraordinary. It was very luminous. It had been foggy, and there was still fog over the ocean far away, but it was very sunny where I was.

I revise my opinion. The second one is even better than I thought.

Must have been morning? You can almost feel the kind of atmosphere.

Here’s something for you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/

And since you have some connection with Russia, you might, if you have not already, comment on the three plate Czarist era color images. Some are really impressive. But maybe you already covered that.

Now, I think I’ll go back to the yard and try and keep out of the poison ivy. Sure hope that stuff I was pulling out was nightshade vines.

In the first shot, the composition is very good. It avoided centering the woman and child, the most common mistake. Neither the woman nor child is posing being unaware of you and the child pointing outcsomething in the distance to the mother captures a tender moment. They add the interest of the human element, while also providing perspective on the size of the area photographed. It screams ‘seashore’ rather than ‘beach’. Exposure appears good.

The pics reveal you to have natural talent, i.e. a fine ‘eye’.

Indeed you do have a very, very good eye.

Great detail from such a distance!

Neo, have you eaten at the Maine Diner in Wells? My sister and her husband took me there recently. Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it isn’t good! For years, when I would visit from Texas, my sister would suggest going to Mexican restaurants. After enough feedback from me that while there may be a good Mexican/Tex Mex restaurant in New England, I had yet to find one, she finally got the message and concentrated on restaurants doing what New England does best- seafood.Though a Greek sandwich shop in the area was pretty good, also. [Where I grew up in NE, Greeks operated a lot of the pizza places.]

I haven’t a clue who that is. Just someone who happened to be on the beach that day. At Ogunquit, there’s a cliff walk above the beach, and I was on the cliff walk. Really wonderful place. The walk begins at Perkins Cove.

You should check out the Lake Superior shoreline in Michigan’s UP sometime.