DSC03656-ed1-ds

Charlie’s Garden (sometimes spelled as Charley’s Garden) lies just off Collywell Bay Road in Seaton Sluice and is an isolated sandstone pinnacle which adopted its name from a local villager, Mr Charles Dockwray, who cultivated the top of it prior to the sea eroding the rocks between it and thereby separating it from the mainland. Seaham Beach . Canon 5D mk4 Canon 16-35 f4 kase wolverine filters kase k8 filter holder Circular Polariser 0.9 Medium Grad vanguard alta pro 2 tripod

Charlie’s Garden (sometimes spelled as Charley’s Garden) lies just off Collywell Bay Road in Seaton Sluice and is an isolated sandstone pinnacle which adopted its name from a local villager, Mr Charles Dockwray, who cultivated the top of it prior to the sea eroding the rocks between it and thereby separating it from the mainland. Canon 5D mk4 Canon 16-35 f4 kase wolverine filters kase k8 filter holder Circular Polariser 0.9 Medium Grad ND1000 (10stop) vanguard alta pro 2 tripod

Heading to Seaton Delaval Hall i decided to call in and see Charlie. Thanks for Viewing every one.

Finding this image by chance on the hard drive was definitely something of a 'poisoned chalice'...

I happened across this image and liked it straight away so I thought right time to get this one done... for someone who doesn't like to spend too long editing images this one was an absolute pain in the backside as it actually took several hours to do... nothing complicated about the image, no advanced or complicated methods needed, nope nothing like that... it was due to the sheer amount of dust spots on my camera sensor at this time! I don't think I've ever had an image as bad as this for dust spots, pollen, and crap on the filter / sensor which really shows up on long exposures such as this, as I remember I got this camera cleaned professionally after this shoot due to this...

This is 'Charlies Garden', a fantastic rock stock in the North Sea in Northumberland, this was shot just after sunset, the tide was just at the height I wanted and there were plenty of clouds about so this type of image was always in my mind.

At 3 minutes long it can be considered a really long exposure, I just wish it had taken that amount of time to process it!

Amusingly after I had done it, I found a PSD file in the folder which was titled 'unfinished dust spot nightmare', and when I opened it up it was this :-)

Portfolio of images on my personal website here

DSC03656-fdr-ed1-ds

My Website

I'm not sure who Charlie is, but according to the name this sea stack here is apparently his garden... could be difficult to get the lawnmower on it at times I guess...

I'd come to this location after the huge dog had dug up the beach at the previous sunset location (see 2 photo's back) my intention was to isolate the sea stack in a long exposure as it was high tide, but upon arrival there was all this beautiful rock with lines leading into the scene that would have gone to waste so the plan was quickly changed with the sun still being up enough to light the foreground.

A great location and one to definitely come back to for sunrise or just on a lower tide.

caption amended with info about Charlie.. The legend is famous about Charlie living there while it was still joined to the mainland. The stack used to be an Island and Charlie grew his potatoes and veg on top in the 1800s.

Many thanks to Norma (Sheerlight) for the information.

Visit my Website