The best-laid plans can go awry. It happens to all of us from time to time. You set off to go somewhere, maybe an hour’s drive away, may be further afield for a photo shoot. It may be a place you’ve been to before and you have some particular images in mind to re-shoot or […]
Do chances come your way? When was the last time you had a chance to take an unusual image and you missed it? Do you recognize chance, photographically speaking? Most of us like to exist in our comfort zones in many walks of life – we are risk averse. Risk is dangerous – things can […]
It is said that the camera never lies. In fact it can tell a cruel version of the truth all too clearly – think of all those images you will have seen of politicians, celebrities or other prominent people papped at their worst: asleep inappropriately, yawning, having a bad hair day, eating a bacon sandwich […]
I must start with an apology as it is now a few weeks since I last wrote an entry on this blog. The truth is that I have been acquiring new images at a frantic pace, and that makes the title of this post particularly relevant. Every time you go out and capture a few […]
Another image from our recent trip to Lyme Regis. Previously I posted an image of some boats in the little harbour protected by the Cobb (click here to view).
I have a similar image from some years ago…..
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Another place we have both photographed!
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But your image is tons better’
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I’m sure it’s not!
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Mine was heavily cropped, grainy and ‘flat’
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Great stuff, I read that the cob is suffering from the heavy battering from the waves, it is crumbling somewhat.
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Thanks Paula. The Cobb does get a battering in major storms, but it is a very substantial object. I hadn’t heard of it being damaged – I must ask my brother-in-law who lives in Lyme
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I’ve never heard of something called a “cobb.” A quick search turned up Cobb salad, the baseball player Ty Cobb, and an assortment of other obviously unrelated things. Once I tried “cobb wall,” I think I found my answer. Is this wall done with cob (or cobb) construction?
Of course, as an American midwesterner, when you say “cobb” to me, I think immediately of corn on the cob. While that’s clearly not the same, there is a certain visual resemblance between the wall and the sweet corn I’m having for dinner tonight.
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The origin of the name ‘Cobb’ is not known, so I am told. Lost in the mists of time. Another peculiar English word that mystifies foreigners!
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