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Here are some photographs from my Beach Photography 1: Beach Cool to be published shortly. Also in preparation is the second volume in the series Beach Photography 2: Promenade.

Image 019 7124 Oops! Stella Plage
Image 019 7124 Oops! Stella Plage, Pas de Calais.

This is one from my Oops! series in Beach Cool.
Image 019 9187 2 Sauveteur
Image 019 9187 2 Sauveteur.

The tattoo on this French lifeguard's thigh alludes to 'tortured soul.'

 Image 019 2474 2 Oops! Dingle Bay, IrelandImage 070 2474 Oops! Dingle Bay, Ireland.

Another from the Oops! series. I painted the name of the boat out at the request of the camp site owners. I had no sympathy for this Mr Big as he came into the 'Dead Slow - Swimmers'  area far to fast in his motor boat. Six pictures in the sequence including a second dunking and ignominious rescue
 
019 7101 Woman and goatImage 019 7101 Woman and goat.

The goat was fascinated by the clicking of the camera shutter and the woman is controlling its curiosity stopping it coming over to me.

Image 019 6322 2 Vive les vacances!Image 019 6322 2 Vive les vacances!
 
Image 018 2176 Wardrobe Malfunction
Image 018 2176 Wardrobe Malfunction.

Image 070 6049 2 Yellow Bouys
 Image 070 6049 Yellow Bouys 2.

 Image 070 5773 Beach Yoga 2.
 Image 070 5773 Beach Yoga 2.


Here are some shots from Beach Photography 4: Footprints bare and Beach Photograpy 3: Footprints which are in print. These two volumes are, as far as I am aware, unique. Of thousands of footprints photographed on beaches around Europe I singled out over 300 for each volume. This surely goes some way to assuaging the curious - and the fetishistic.

The Beach Photography volumes are published in large format (7" x 10") and pocket size (5" x 7"). The smaller format was originally for my benefit. I carry a couple of them in my camera bag and have needed to show them to suspicious people. Now I always have someone with me on a beach when taking photographs.
Image 069 9220 Footprint
 Image 069 9220 Footprint


Image 069 5399 Footprint
Image 069 5399 Footprint bare


Image 069 5501 FootprintImage 069 5501
Footprint bare


Two more samples from my ongoing T-shirts and Book of Numbers projects. I'm aiming for 500 door numbers as below. Spotting and photographing risqué T-shirt messages is more fun, though a lot more discretion is needed. My planned Summer of 2023 along Normandy beaches should clinch it. 

Book of Numbers sample



Image 52271 Eating is My Day Job
Image 52271 Eating is My Day Job

I took this picture from some distance away with no-one between us and the man said nothing as he walked past. Only when looking at the image on the computer did I see he is looking straight at the lens. I suppose I must have been as obvious to him as he was to me.