Piling, Jax Beach-Ponte Vedra Beach line.

Weeds, Ponte Vedra Beach

I'm back. Jacksonville Beach from the pier.

After a month in Provence and two weeks working on the other blog, I am glad to be adding pictures here again. I missed the Atlantic the whole time I was away. Good to be home.

Bye-bye beach

Had a walk on the beach today, after Irene, the hurricane, passed. Won't see the ocean for a month, as we are going to Provence for a month in Rose Cottage. I have started a new blog for the trip. Just go to www.twoweekesinprovence.blogspot.com and, by Friday next, there should be some content. See you back here in October.

Japanese flag 1, Jacksonville Beach

In one of his books, I think it was Looking at Photographs, John Szarkowski used a very spare, direct picture of a round tree in a field to illustrate how, sometimes, flying in the face of the rules of composition, works out. The tree was directly in the center of the rectangular frame. Szarkowski referred to it as a Japanese flag, as it was a circle in the middle of a rectangle. It struck me as a lovely picture and I liked the composition. Every now and then I see an opportunity to do the same.