I posted about Shutter Hub’s call for submissions on this subject on 4th May. I submitted five photographs yesterday; one of them and my accompanying statement below.
In ‘Sea Fever’, John Masefield wrote, ‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky’; and invoked the sensory joys of the shore, ‘the running tide’, ‘the wind’s song’ and ‘the white clouds flying’. The draw of the sea is inexorable and the ‘beach’, the interface between land and water is a liminal zone for relaxation, recreation, discovery or quiet contemplation. It doesn’t have to be golden sand and palm trees: just being by the sea, responding to Masefield’s sensations can be enough.