Playing with fire
Littlehaven Beach, South Shields
Another big tide hitting the beach in South Shields yesterday, and these boys were playing “chicken” with the waves, and getting drenched through to the skin. The car park at Littlehaven Beach took about five minutes to flood and fourty seconds to evacuate, it’s a good job the wind was calm or we may have seen more seawater make it’s way landward!
When they get home to mom these young guys will be in very hot water!
Camera details: Pentax K100D, 35mm lens, 1/45 second, f27, iso 200
I suppose you had a combination of high tides and north winds for waves like those.
Dave Whalley
November 26, 2007 at 4:46 am
Photo impressionnante, les couleurs sont magnifiques
Photo impressive, the colors are magnificent
Olivier
November 26, 2007 at 8:00 am
Kids and water will always go together, except at bath time!
Gails_man
November 26, 2007 at 8:17 am
hello!!
roadartist
November 26, 2007 at 11:31 am
wow! great photo!
Jorgelina
November 26, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Wow! Look at how powerful the water is. Great shot!
joy
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joy
November 26, 2007 at 5:35 pm
How extraordinary. Looks like a painting.
Mike
November 26, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Yep, looks totally like an oil painting to me but a very nice one. Can anyone confirm if it is, please?
Stephen
November 27, 2007 at 1:39 am
I think you lot were in the Shields Gazette today? Playing chicken on the sea front?! You’re on the front page. It said someone was spotted by CCTV operators and police were despatched, but the people were gone by the time they got there!
Curly makes front page news ha ha nice one mate.
Recently been in the news about ‘children not being allowed to play freely’. ‘Nuff said.
Rob from Jarra!
November 27, 2007 at 3:28 am
(put in a false e-mail last post, dunno why, something of a habit i think)
Rob from Jarra!
November 27, 2007 at 3:29 am
Me again, i read through the post again (don’t think they were you’re children)
Sorry for assumption!
Rob from Jarra!
November 27, 2007 at 3:32 am
WOW!! What a moment you’ve caught. Simply awesome power of nature…and yes, boys will be boys no matter when or where.
Isadora
November 27, 2007 at 7:21 am
I have not enhanced this in Photoshop, other than to sharpen. The slower shutter speed has produced this effect with the water.
Curly
November 27, 2007 at 9:17 am
This is an amazing photo, Curly. Is the sea looking slightly brown because it’s throwing up sand or is that the light? whatever it is, I’m bowled over. Fabulous!
Jilly
November 28, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Jilly the sea water contains sand from the beach, hence the colour.
Curly
November 28, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Good grief! What a photo. It looks a bit like bleached out splashing lava, I don’t know why I’m thinking such a thing, but that is the first thing that came to mind, seeing the photo after I read your title. Nice juxtaposition of fire and water and danger.
Lynette
November 28, 2007 at 10:56 pm
amazing picture
laurent
November 29, 2007 at 6:14 am
GREAT photo
maria
November 29, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Wow – how scary is that?!!
Jackie
November 29, 2007 at 3:15 pm
marvellous picture! Like for art gallery!
antonia
December 5, 2007 at 5:30 pm
What a great shot. That is powerful water when it gets riled up like that. A powerful photo.
Andrée
December 7, 2007 at 1:17 am