It’s an idea that’s been growing subconsciously during those darker days when I really didn’t know if I’d be carrying camera and tripod again but I currently seem to have an elevated liking for the dark, black and white style commonly known as Film noir. It’s a visual style should be familiar to most people, even if not by name. Think moody, dramatically shadowed, 1940/50s black and white movies.

At Hartland Quay and the surrounding area it’s the sea cliffs and their eroded remains protruding from the sandy beach like skeletons of long dead creatures that I find most interesting. They were laid-down as sediments in a shallow tropical sea, rich in marine life during the geological Carboniferous period and have been compressed and transformed into alternating layers of sandstone, shale and limestone during the intervening millennia.