boscastle harbour 1906
This picture annoys me because I like it, even though it has people in it. The people, the story they're making out of the scene, the way they are interacting... they make the picture.
Bloody people. Pictures with people in are not my preferred thing at all.
It is taken at a tourist honeypot location, Boscastle in north Cornwall. This place is only about seven miles from my home, yet we rarely go there. Too many people generally. But it was J's birthday, and there is a place in Boscastle that she wanted to try out, so I offered to take her there for a birthday lunch. Then we had a wander around the village afterwards to walk it all off a bit.
Because we were going out specifically to eat, I hadn't taken my proper camera.
So annoying thing number two about this picture is it's taken on my phone.
When I look at this picture, I think of all the things I would have liked to do with the scene with a proper camera and lens, rather than the one way I've found to make something out of pretty much the only way I could have taken a picture at all.
It looks OK on a screen, but I doubt it will hold up for printing so well.
Annoying thing number three is that I seem to have an eye for when a scene is being made better by having people in it, doing their people things. This suggests that I could take more good pictures like this one, which means I should go to places that there are other people in more often.
That is very annoying, and I probably won't.
boscastle harbour 1906
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NB: I call it 'boscastle harbour 1906' because 1906 is the frame number, not what year it looks like. You realised that of course I expect, but years of dealing with the public have trained me to clear up anything ambiguous or that could be construed 'wrongly' in any way – i.e. probably deliberately – because some idiot will make out they didn't understand it as they thought it would be funny.