The Blog is Back

Wow, 2022 seems to have gone by in a blur, and already we are approaching the end of August. I’ve been very poor at writing blog posts this year, I think the routine of the monthly updates around my 2021 project has been missing a bit in 2022.

I’m going to get back to posting at least monthly with updates on what has been going on. So to start here’s a look back over the first 7 months of 2022 with my favourite image from each month with a bit of the story behind each image.

I’ve been a bit obsessed with this tree, capturing it from all different angles trying to get a shot I was happy with. This one from January with the snaking sea wall in the foreground is a composition I am quite happy with. I quite like the moody sunrise sky, and this became the front cover for the north east section of the Isle of Wight Location guide. (I’m sure you’ve seen it already, but just in case…. Location Guide)

We had some pretty wild weather in February, including 2 named storms in the space of a week and during the first of these a new U.K. record windspeed of 125mph on the Island. Between the two storms on the Sunday evening there was a lovely clear evening and I quickly headed down to the edge of Bembridge Harbour. It was still pretty windy so there is quite a bit of motion in the grasses, but that reminds me of the conditions at the time.

A bit of an unusual one for March, using a much longer local length then I usually shoot at. Another Windy period led to some amazing conditions over Tennyson Down with the spray off the channel appear as mist on the cliffs and the down. I was stood next to the Military road on the cliffs above Freshwater to capture this image. I included the trig point in the foreground to mirror the Tennyson Monument on the top of the down.

April: The Yarbourgh Monument on Culver Down

April and the Milky Way was back in the night sky. Captured here behind the Yarborough Monument on Culver down. There was quite a lot of light pollution which made capturing the detail of the Milky Way a challenge.

Priory Bay is somewhere I have always struggled to find a photo, but at low tide I had always thought there was an image with the channels and textures in the sand. On this occasion these wonderful lumps in the sand made a great seascape image.

June: Round the Island Fleet passing Cowes Green

June, and one of my favourite events of the year was back, the Round the Island Race. I captured the starts at Cowes and this image of one of the fleets passing the shelters at Cowes Green was my favourite image of the year so far. I think the image is made by the wonderful cloud formation in the sky.

July was tough with 6 or 7 images I was really please with to choose from. For me though, this shot of Yarmouth harbour in the soft evening light was my favourite, it was such a still lovely evening down there and I had the area to myself which was nice as the Island hit its busy times.

So those are my favourite images from each month so far. August has been a good month too with a trip to Dorset yielding some really nice shots along with more time out and about on the island so I’ll be back to doing my monthly updates at the start of September.

Thanks

Chris

Landscape Photography by Christopher Cockroft, based on the Isle of Wight