Sand patterns and tide pools...

A second day of crisp, winter light, and another very low tide, and I have the makings for some dramatic wide angle shots along the beach at Boscombe, Dorset.

I had been shooting seafront architecture at Sandbanks, Poole, but the patterns in the sand left by the retreating tide, lit by the low angle of the late afternoon sun produce the best images of the day.
I'm shooting at the widest setting of my zoom lens so as to include as much foreground as possible, but instead of correcting any inherent distortion the lens produces, I decide to leave it - hence the slightly bent  appearance of the pier.

12-24mm f/4 Nikkor. 1/125 second at f/11. +0.67 EV compensation. ISO 640. Polarising filter.

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