I took this photo last weekend. I liked the composition at the time, but I like it even more now it’s developed – it was taken with a crappy disposable camera, which seems to have given it a slightly grainy, almost chalky finish. As someone else pointed out, if Edward Hopper had been in the habit of visiting the English seaside, he might have painted something that looked a bit like this.
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September 29, 2008 at 2:58 pm
[...] is, but those crappy disposable cameras keep coming up trumps with photos of beaches. After the shot of Margate that looked like an Edward Hopper painting, we now have this shot of the beach at Cannes, which looks exactly like the sort of [...]