Falmouth - Photography Week 16 (2017)

I rarely go out these days without taking a compact camera with me and this invariably leads to an assortment of different photographs. Many of these are simple record shots of details that interest me or scenes that I find pleasing to look at.

These are some of the photographs taken on a short visit to Falmouth:

Osteospermum

Above the sea wall and near to Gyllyngvase beach is a wonderful bed of Osteospermum (daisy family):

Gyllyngdune Gardens

In front of Gyllyngdune Gardens is the listed Victorian spiral steps leading to the beach. The following images where captured using the in-camera HDR facility:

The gardens themselves were restored in 2011 and in common with the sea front it is neatly planted and maintained. This selection includes the leaves of a hosta, a backlit palm leaf, and close-ups of an agave plant:

At the entrance to the gardens was a carpet of bluebells and three-cornered leeks and this extended to a small patch on the sea front:

Harbour Reflections

In a recent post I shared a selection of Nottingham City canal reflections. I used the same approach at high tide around the harbour in Falmouth.

Gunnera

Gunnera, or giant rhubarb plants, are popular in many of the public gardens in Cornwall. The leaf patterns and textures are great to photograph and work particularly well when converted to black and white:

Rust

Finally, a rusty residue from the foot of some sea front metal railings providing a colourful abstract image: