Wells-next-the-Sea

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Wells is a small town on the Norfolk coast. I went there at the end of August 2001. I forgot to take my usual camera, so these pictures were taken with a Kodak single-use camera. It's completely automatic, you can't focus, change lenses or adjust the exposure; all you can do is look carefully and point it in the right direction. Inside is some Kodak Ultra film and a wide-angle lens which focuses acceptably from 1m to infinity. Working on the assumption that it would use some kind of average metering, possibly centre-weighted, I did my best to control the exposure by half-pushing the button to lock the meter on some area I wanted to appear as a middle value, and then recomposing before making the click. This seems to have worked well at least some of the time.


Picture 1 Larger A portrait of English weather	Picture 2 Larger Curved sandbank and dune	Picture 3 Larger Beach huts and bright sand

Picture 4 Larger The harbour	Picture 5 Larger Flat sand to the fixed dune	Picture 6 Larger Skyline with people walking

Picture 7 Larger The channel into the harbour	Picture 8 Larger Beach huts twinkling in sunshine	Picture 9 Larger Shadow and pools of sunshine

Picture 10 Larger A stray piece of sky	Picture 11 Larger People walk on their reflections	Picture 12 Larger Various footprints

Picture 13 Larger Ripples in the sea make ripples in the sand	Picture 14 Larger The way home	Picture 15 Larger A red sail passes beyond the sandbank

	Picture 16 Larger More dark weather