Ramsgate and Margate photos late and some thoughts on photographing people in public places and a bit of a ramble.

 Sorry about yesterday, I ran out of time and so there was no blog.

Here is the link to yesterday's photos

To be honest I deleted most of the photos because of the quality and size of the camera making it possible to zoom in on people on the beach too much.

The rights and wrongs of street photography, which is what I think beach photography equates to, have moved from the letter of the law, which says you can photograph anyone in a public place, to trying to avoid photos which don't offend anyone, which of course is impossible. 

A big problem here is that modernish cameras have the potential to be misused in a way that's intrusive. The picture above comes from Wednesday's photos, is nothing special, just a hand held shot from the Pavilion.

The other side of this coin is that archive photos recording our history including tourism - how busy beaches are, what people are doing on them, well it is important.

Another problem is that what you can see in the viewfinder when you take the photo compared to what you can see downloading the full size image file from Google Photos is massively different.

Work wise here at Michael's Bookshop here in Ramsgate
here is the link to the photos of the books that went out yesterday
the work of adding more bookcases is still going on.

There are various ways of mitigating the issues one of which is going back to publishing all of the pictures at a limited size on one webpage.

What's happening with the Maritime Museum?

I think the idea was that it was going to be run by by Preston Steam Trust with historic steam related events like the one in 2012, next links to the photos of that.

link 1     link 2

Boris's Golden Age Gets off to a Hot Start and we look at some old local photos

Starting with old photos of Ramsgate Harbour, while in the back of my mind lurks the business of Boris, BREXIT and what the impact on the almost extinct small non-food shopkeeper will be.

The bookshop being closed today because of it being thursday I went and sat on Ramsgate sands and sketched for a bit.

When William Powell Frith did this preliminary sketch for his famous paining "Ramsgate Sands" 1850 The Royal Victoria Pavilion aka Wetherspoons had't been built.

I painted until I got uncomfortable sitting on the bit of wood the paining is sitting on the the photo, it wasn't very long.

Then I took some photos
here is the link to them

Most of the books we put out yesterday were part of a collection of books on witchcraft and paganism

here is the link to the photos of the books

 The rest of the photos ate The Winter Gardens in Margate

Ramsgate sketch, harbour walk photos, Margate and Ramsgate archive photos

This photo is of Ramsgate Harbour in 1950, not a busy harbour back then.

This evening's photos

Another day of making bookcases in the bookshop for me today, so I didn't get out until after work and and supper. During a heatwave the evening by the coast is one of the best places to be for me.

This evening's watercolour sketch of Ramsgate Sands

Manston Airport

I think this is Margate

Margate also

 Jetty destroyed 1978

Ramsgate 1932/4