coastal defences at Llanddulas and a few other

Well I tried uploading my pics to the nikonites gallery but it said each image was too big, even though they werent, oh well
I cycled about 15 miles to Llanddulas today as it was such a nice day and took some photos with my sigma 10-20mm

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Random well also



And my first attempts at taking photos of the night sky, it wasnt very clear last night but this is what I got after some heavy editing (15s F4 Iso 100 10mm)

I've seen beach barricades like these before. It's incredible the sheer volume.

Nice shots but what are they defending against?

the relentless ocean! they prevent the coastline from being washed away by locking the rocks in to place, It is amazing how many of them there are.

bechdan said:

the relentless ocean! they prevent the coastline from being washed away by locking the rocks in to place, It is amazing how many of them there are.

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I figured it was that or the English. Sort of makes the beach not usable for anything else I guess.

I had to look at a map of the area. I see how the area is a natural inlet where the sea would have no other place to go so I can see how it would get the full force of the sea washing away at the beach.

Nice shots and interesting!

Yes we need them for the coast of Louisiana losing a lot to the gulf of mexico and Mississippi river.

WOW, I've never seen such things before in my life. What are they for?

siamthai1 said:

WOW, I've never seen such things before in my life. What are they for?

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ha ha cheers Don
off topic of the title now its a clearer night so heres my first decentish shot of the milky way. Theres a streetlamp not too far away I dont know if thats spoiling it, but am I doing it right with the 10-20mm (30s F4) or would another lens be better?

siamthai1 said:

WOW, I've never seen such things before in my life. What are they for?

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Well, in many places, they're used for mitigating soil erosion of the river banks and along sea shores for the same purpose.

ISO 100 as on a tripod, post processing using corel paintshop pro x5, used raw editing to recover highlights, then used the 'fill light + clarity' options to actually be able to see the stars, then the usual noise removal and sharpening. I also set the camera to exposure delay (mirror up 1s before shutter) and manual focus ofcourse.
I dont suppose a minimum aperture of F4 is particularly good for this though.