I'm looking over the River Blyth which winds round behind these distinctive buildings where you can find the ferry which will take you across to the Southwold side. http://365project.org/quietpurplehaze/add-ins/2013-09-20
The weather was the best on Ray's birthday, sunny and warm but a little breeze. I always find the sky more interesting when there are some clouds to photograph. How quickly they metamorphose into something else!
Good shot Hazel - love those black buildings against the blue sky. One small suggestion - you might try cropping it so you lose some of the water, but your horizon will then be a third up from the bottom rather than in the middle. Tell me to push off and edit my own shots if you like! :-)
Fiona, I wouldn't dream of telling anyone who was being helpful to push off! I did actually crop the pic as much as I felt I could as I didn't want to lose the little bit of curved bank (Suffolk mud!) in the foreground. @exidia@andreajoy
Don't know really what they are - not new, maybe some are holiday homes. Yes, I'm happy for constructive criticism but just wanted to explain that I'd cropped this shot as much as I felt I could but, as I said, no problems with suggestions.
If this is a river are the houses not to close to it. One of the things rivers do is raise of water , sometimes. and I `ve read of last summer problems with rain in England.
To the pic. A nice capture of the river and riverbanks and the houses beside it.
Sky and clouds are wonderful subjects to pic. and to paint. Dutch artist know.
I think I would not want to go back to Suffolk to live as it seems a bit isolated compared to Hampshire where we are now but it is a lovely county for a visit, unspoilt beaches and great countyside and very picturesque, also like the old Suffolk painted houses, especially the pink ones!
This describes your photo I believe reference 'Blackshore CAA Mar 08:
"While 100 years ago there were many small ‘black’ timber sheds on the quay and by the ferry, map and photographic evidence suggests that few if any have survived on their original sites. Only ‘The Old Yacht Yard (The Boat House),’ a brick, weatherboard and pantile barn in the north- east corner of the conservation area is of any age and may have been a storage barn. Records show that in 1907 it was built of red brick with a steep pitched pantile roof, in two parts, that to west, 2 storey and to east, 1 1⁄2 storeys. It has recently been altered with additions that in scale, character and materials are alien to the surrounding buildings. The Boathouse forms part of a group of four substantial buildings. All are vernacular in character and all but one, timber framed with single span plans of one or two storeys, simple pitched roofs uncluttered by dormers, and raised above the ground on stilts. The walls are of black weatherboard, the roofs of corrugated steel, mineral felt or red pantiles. They are arranged informally about an unmade road and preserve the
image of quay buildings and the fishing industry there. North-west of the group, and parallel with the quay are two small black weatherboard barns. The Savoy, a barn with a pantile roof, is well preserved and, seen in a marshland setting, provides an evocative image of past times. The group of sheds near the harbour wall resemble fishermen’s net houses or fishermen’s huts. The area is used for informal recreation, though much of the conservation area is a car park."
Andrea, how very interesting and thank you so much for taking the trouble to find this for me. I've found the documents and bookmarked it to read again at my leisure (ironing calls - joke!).
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Don't know really what they are - not new, maybe some are holiday homes. Yes, I'm happy for constructive criticism but just wanted to explain that I'd cropped this shot as much as I felt I could but, as I said, no problems with suggestions.
I think some are holiday homes but not all - would like to find out!
Oh, me too! (Have to win the lottery...)
To the pic. A nice capture of the river and riverbanks and the houses beside it.
Sky and clouds are wonderful subjects to pic. and to paint. Dutch artist know.
This area has been prone to flooding - see a photo of floods here in the same area as in my pic http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/image_galleries/flooding_nov_2006_gallery.shtml?13
I think I would not want to go back to Suffolk to live as it seems a bit isolated compared to Hampshire where we are now but it is a lovely county for a visit, unspoilt beaches and great countyside and very picturesque, also like the old Suffolk painted houses, especially the pink ones!
"While 100 years ago there were many small ‘black’ timber sheds on the quay and by the ferry, map and photographic evidence suggests that few if any have survived on their original sites. Only ‘The Old Yacht Yard (The Boat House),’ a brick, weatherboard and pantile barn in the north- east corner of the conservation area is of any age and may have been a storage barn. Records show that in 1907 it was built of red brick with a steep pitched pantile roof, in two parts, that to west, 2 storey and to east, 1 1⁄2 storeys. It has recently been altered with additions that in scale, character and materials are alien to the surrounding buildings. The Boathouse forms part of a group of four substantial buildings. All are vernacular in character and all but one, timber framed with single span plans of one or two storeys, simple pitched roofs uncluttered by dormers, and raised above the ground on stilts. The walls are of black weatherboard, the roofs of corrugated steel, mineral felt or red pantiles. They are arranged informally about an unmade road and preserve the
image of quay buildings and the fishing industry there. North-west of the group, and parallel with the quay are two small black weatherboard barns. The Savoy, a barn with a pantile roof, is well preserved and, seen in a marshland setting, provides an evocative image of past times. The group of sheds near the harbour wall resemble fishermen’s net houses or fishermen’s huts. The area is used for informal recreation, though much of the conservation area is a car park."
Andrea, how very interesting and thank you so much for taking the trouble to find this for me. I've found the documents and bookmarked it to read again at my leisure (ironing calls - joke!).