Naturally, a pinhole camera came to Lyme Regis with me, along with my digital one. More often than not I choose to shoot in monochrome but on this occasion I plumped for a roll of Kodak Portra 160 and it turned out to be a good choice.
My first few frames were taken at the eastern end of the town, exploring the beach and rock formations. You never know how things will work out when shooting into the sun with a pinhole camera and on this occasion I caught some beautiful rainbow coloured flare in one photo.
With a decent sunrise predicted for one morning I headed down to the Cobb with the intention to try and create one of my ghostly self portraits. With hindsight I should have positioned my camera so my silhouette didn’t overlap the headland in the distance, but I can always try again another time!
The colours were as beautiful as I’d hoped and my final shot that morning even caught a hint of flare.
Walking back to my car I stopped to shoot the Lydia Eve, a fishing trawler which was in harbour ready to be used in filming for the new Willy Wonka movie. This early in the morning there was no activity but its vivid green colour worked beautifully against the deep blues of the sky.