of Tollesbury and its marshy environs John Woodwark |
This gloomy grey page is where I get to present some of my better pictures of Tollesbury, its marshes and the sea, taken between 2011 and the present. Click on any photo to see a larger version. (Enquiries about full-resolution photos are welcome.) |
![]() January 2012: Seal spotted in the Blackwater. (Is this really your best effort at wildlife photography? Yes it is.) |
![]() February 2012: The Old Hall marshes look a tad chilly, but the Brent geese seem to like it. Some unwelcome vignetting on my Canon SX40, which I am too lazy to address. |
![]() February 2012: This tree, abandoned to the sea as part of an enviromental anti-reclamation project, is Tollesbury's ultimate photographic cliché. |
![]() December 2014: Sunset behind St Mary's tower. Don't use the k-word. |
![]() June 2020: Anticrepuscular rays spotted over Bradwell one evening, and snapped with a little Canon G15. The colours of the image as a whole have been modified slightly from the camera's default settings to make the rays a bit clearer. |
![]() July 2020: High summer wheat, with the Blackwater estuary in the distance. |
![]() July 2020: Tollesbury Creek and the Marina from the sea wall. This seemed to call for black and white, which I have simulated, including the effect of a red filter. |
![]() September 2020: Evening clouds over Old Hall Marsh at high tide. |
![]() September 2020: The Fellowship Afloat lightship (formerly Trinity House LV15) shows off its stern (rude!) to the birds on the RSPB Old Hall Marshes nature reserve. |
![]() September 2020: The triumph of form over functionality: a picturesque dinghy rots away on the sea wall of the nature reserve. |
![]() September 2020: Drainage pond behind the sea wall, Old Hall marsh. Lomochrome Purple ISO400 — yes guys, real film. |
![]() September 2020: Sunset over the Old Hall marshes, from the nature reserve. Check out the naturally kitschy skein of birds, at 11 o'clock above the sun. |
![]() October 2020: YATS, as we say in East Anglia: Yet Another Terrific Sunset. |
![]() October 2020: St Mary's Salcott by moonlight (for a commission). Yes, I used a tripod, and the exposure was 3 seconds. |
![]() November 2020: ITMA (It's That Marsh Again). A brave crew in the red dinghy, on the horizon at the far right. |
![]() November 2020: A rising tide floats all boats, even the Lightship. (Yes, it does float on a spring tide. Of course it does — how do you think it got there?) |
![]() December 2020: We are too menny. Yes you are. What's wrong with Brent, geese? Quite a lot. |
![]() January 2021: New Year's Day. All lit up and nowhere to go. Handheld, so rather high ISO. |
![]() January 2021: The Mojave desert? Or maybe the surface of Mars? No, an infra-red image of our old friend the Blackwater estuary. With a 720nm filter. |
![]() February 2021: Yes, it's lamb-scape photography! Sheep in IR. |
![]() March 2021: Marks Hall have made a good thing out of their "Screaming Oak". Here is Tollesbury's riposte. Naturally, I can only reveal its precise location to over-18s of robust mind; but I can say that it is within easy walking distance of the village. |