General Photography | Dover

A road trip, suggested several weeks before it actually happened was the main reason that I managed to find myself on the Dover seafront on a cold and overcast Thursday a couple of weeks ago. There isn’t a whole lot to do in Dover so why did I go?

I can think of two very big reasons, the first that I shall mention is actually secondary and should not be considered the main reason at all. This first [yet secondary] reason being there is that I had never actually been to Dover before. Sure, I had once gone through Dover to get onto a ferry to get to France [OK, then I guess that would be twice with the return trip]. But I had not actually had a chance to walk around the town so I didn’t define it as actually having gone there. Otherwise I might as well say that I have been to Slovenia because I flew over it on the way to Pisa. By the way I’ve included a link to that blog post below.

Travel Photography | Pisa
Date Posted: Monday 23^rd Of August 2010

And that brings us to the second, yet primary, reason for my trip the Dover sea front and that was due to my companions on this trip. Matt, Emma and I were all on the same photography course in college and hung out a fair bit but after college we drifted slightly which happens. So this was a nice trip and chance for a catch-up. But as I said in the first paragraph and the video that will be displayed on this blog post [once I have finished with the edit] the weather was less than perfect.

As well as seeing the seafront we also made our way through the town to have a look around and I managed to return to my default of checking charity shops for old cameras as I have always believed that they are a great source of analogue camera equipment. But it’s all luck whether they have something when you get there. We made our way to Dover Castle but it turns out that they had closed half an hour earlier than they should have so we couldn’t actually go in. Not disheartened we carried on to the next place on our list to visit and that was the National Trust centre on the cliffs. From the top of the cliffs you mainly get a nice view of the Port of Dover [although I’m pretty sure in the video I call it something else] and the amount of traffic going through is quite surprising.

We slowly made our way home after this. The weather neither improved nor worsened all day until we were already on the motorway on our journey home. This is when the sun decided to finally break through the clouds to finally make an appearance before disappearing below the horizon. Allowing the Moon to be seen and although I fell asleep for a good part of the journey seeing the moon did remind me that the following night was meant to be the arrival of the ‘Supermoon’. But I will cover that better in the next blog post I am planning to do.

As you may or may not know I prefer taking photographs with people in them. Scenery doesn’t truly interest me. But as this was a new place for me I decided to try my hand at street photography. As I’ve never been the best at it, and I’m looking for a chance to improve upon my skills. To reiterate what was said in the video all the photographs in this post were taken with the Canon EOS 50D using either the Canon EF 28mm f1.8 lens or the Canon EF 50mm f1.8 lens. I;ve played around with making the photographs monochrome but as I have written this way before selecting the final photos for this post you never can tell what will end up in it. Hope you’ve enjoyed this post. There are links to my Twitter and e-mail address all over the blog. So if you want to get in touch feel free.