In Pursuit of Spring
I have a love hate relationship with Whitby.
I love the way it bares its roofs for all and sundry, how you feel it in your legs, how it embraces the sea with its clasping piers and how the buildings sit along the estuary like sea shells cockled to a cliff side. I love the squat and partitioned parish church and the sky piercing ruins of the abbey.
But I also resent it.
I resent how perfectly composed it is — the jaunty vernacular, the ready-made vistas, the roads and yards and steeply rising steps that funnel you towards a divine composition.
Whitby makes everyone a great photographer.
Here, I am redundant. The compositions are waiting. The drama is pre-determined.
Weather: 6 degrees celsius. Changeable with some sunshine and showers
Observations: 18 degrees temperature change from the coldest day in Scotland.
Total Miles Travelled: 917 miles
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