Lens-Artists Challenge #312: Sense of Scale

Lens-Artists Challenge #312: Sense of Scale

I've only recently joined in with the Lens-Artists Challenge and I'm really enjoying taking part. I like to see the other submissions (and finding other new and interesting blogs to follow) and often search through the 'Discover' tab of the Jetpack app. The snag is that Jetpack doesn't present a chronological list of posts from the most recent backwards but a jumbled list that I have to scroll through to find the most recent entries.

This is a bit of a mixed blessing, because although I'm quite happy to scroll through the entries I find myself becoming sidetracked by all of the wonderful photos that have been submitted in past Challenges. Sure enough, I came across an entry from a few weeks ago by Sofia of 'photographias' where she posted her Challenge for the week: Sense of Scale (https://wp.me/p7mIo3-4r9). She presented some lovely examples but it got me thinking about a photograph of the beach that I had taken while we were on holiday.

Most days during our holiday we were able to get to the beach, and I always enjoy taking photographs of the shore and the sea. But one day, when it was actually too windy to go onto the beach — although some brave souls ventured down there — I took an image from the cliff behind the beach which I think really shows a sense of scale, and I hope that you won't mind my posting it so long after this Challenge subject has closed.

Normally, when we clamber down the cliff behind the beach it doesn't seem that big. We know that there's a 30m cliff behind the beach, and that it stretches down to the Pria de Meco on the one side and Praia das Bicas on the other, but when we're lying there getting a tan the world seems very ... small. But from the cliff the true size of the Praia da Rio do Prata is revealed, and people on the sand with their umbrellas show just how big our beach actually is. One thing I should mention about this image, it's blurred deliberately. I'm a big fan of Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), where the camera is physically moved during exposure, and this was one of a series of ICM photographs taken during the holiday.

Each week a member of the Lens-Artists group is asked to host the Challenge and suggest a theme. The most recent was from Ritva of 'Ritva Sillanmäki Photography' who's theme was 'Common Object' (https://sillarit.com/2024/09/07/lens-artists-challenge-315-common-object/). Usually themes for the Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here (https://photobyjohnbo.com/about-lens-artists/), and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag 'Lens-Artists'.

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