Wednesday Walk Another visit to West island beach

This post if for Wednesday walk challenge And Make me Smile Collaboration challenge, initially our collaboration was once a month but due to the popularity of it we have decided to make the collab a weekly thing :)

Any questions about the challenge read the guide at the Bottom of the post ;)

For todays Post I am sharing another visit to West island beach I did a few days ago, Whenever I used to visit West island, I used to Park and walk around the shoreline, but as I mentioned in this post I on a previous visit ran into a fellow photographer in the area and saw him head off the beach inland a bit and I followed along and discovered the marshes that I had never really noticed there was a trail by them so that was my plan for the visit I am sharing today

In the car Park is this old World War two observation deck which I cant resist grabbing at least one shot of each time I visit there

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I got there quite early and it still was pretty dark, so I decided while waiting for a bit more light and to head to the trail by the marshes to stroll along the beach, to give an idea how dark it was this shot was a 50 second exposure to capture some light

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And looking back along the beach the other direction

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The reason I decided to head to this spot to check out the marshes was the weather apps I use were indicating lots of clouds and I thought there would not be many colors of sunrise, but as the sun got closer to rising we did get some colors

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and as it got lighter I walked back over the sand dunes to the marshes

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With the lack of rain we have had here most of the lawns and parks had very little green mostly brownish colors so seeing the rich green in the marshes was so nice

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And a last shot by the marshes to finish off this post, you can see the WW2 tower in the distance.

I have more shots of the marshes so I may do a follow on post tomorrow

^{Sony A7iv 17mm F11 56 second ISO 100}
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Weekly giveaway of shares

This week I am sending to the following who joined Wednesday Walk, for this week I did a random draw and the following each received some Hive Hive account@heartofdarkness, Hive account@elecris05, Hive account@cmplxty, Hive account@nebraskadean, Hive account@misshugo, Hive account@soyunasantacruz

As Hive account@elizacheng and I collaborated with our Wednesday Walk and Make me Smile Challenges

And one person is randomly drawn who joins both challenges to receive one Hive from me and this week it is @TBA

Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by me, the idea is to get out for a short walk and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start. And this is my entry for this week, but first, let me explain the challenge.

This is my post for the Wednesday Walk challenge hosted by myself, let me first explain the guidelines

Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of.

Your walk does not have to be on a Wednesday I just ask if possible to share your walk photos on a Wednesday.

Try and get a few shots not just one

Add a bit of a write up about where you walked

Just one Wednesday Walk tagged post a week

You can look for anything in general or decide on one subject you want to get shots off.

Make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss

Do a post with the shots you get on a Wednesday and tag it with #wednesdaywalk, also if you happen to join, please leave a link to your post in a comment on this post and I will try and visit them all, especially if its not one of the first 5 tags or I may miss seeing it .

Following me and re-Hiving the post so more see it would be appreciated but isn't a rule just a suggestion.

I am not strict on these rules and hence why they are called guidelines and not rules

I will try and visit, and upvote all who take part in the Wednesday Walk.

Make me Smile Collaboration

As I mentioned above Wednesday Walk is collaborating with the [Make Me Smile] hosted by Hive account@elizacheng,

Here are the rules for her challenge

Your post can be writing, singing, video, poem,drawing, photography etc.... the most important part is your post Make me" smile, Remember, the ME is whoever read/view/listen to your post and this includes YOURSELF.
b. Your content must be ORIGINAL CONTENT
c. Please include at least 50 Words in your post