Beached Fishing Boats

The beach at Hastings on the southern coast of England is famous for its fishing boats, its clinkers, and for the way the boats are dragged by wires onto the beach after they have come in and unloaded. For the rest of the day they stand about on the pebbles - dozens of them; it's an odd but fascinating scene - boats out of the water are somehow rather compelling. Here I wanted to photograph them against the blue of the sky – a substitute for the sea– so I shot this low, right from the water's edge quite late in the day when the light was not too harsh. All is quiet now, but one can hopefully imagine the sounds of the boats in action, and the smell of fish. In a few hours the boats will be out again... Location: Hastings, England