Fishing Boats at Sunset

Though my last post was contemporary and winter is still very much upon us, I feel this is also a time to look back on pictures of warmer days, and in a sense re-live golden moments of sunshine. Sunset is, of course, a golden time for pictures anywhere, but perhaps especially so when there is water nearby or there are interesting textures and surfaces to reflect the light. Here, I was especially attracted to the soft light hitting the side of the boats and the way the boats themselves were perched on the beach -itself somewhat unusual, although not along this stretch of the south coast of England where there are few places for the boats to moor, and so they are winched up onto the pebbled beach upon returning from fishing in the morning. All day they sit stranded, perhaps wistfully wishing to be back in the water again where they belong... I love the quiet loneliness of the moment; there are no people about now, no noisy seagulls, just the gentle sound of the waves hitting the shore. A glorious, golden moment of summer. Location: Hastings, England