Herb Riddle's photos with the keyword: Sand

An unusual photo of this famous viaduct in the Mawddach estuary. Of course this short commuter train is perhaps the centre of interest too. However perhaps the thing that makes this photo what it is, is the golden lighting on the sand. Essential full screen Enjoy the weekend.

Well if it is, it is one only for ants perhaps :) A long walk along the big beach and dunes at Aberdyfi in Wales brought this to my attention. I guess children and animals got here before me. Enjoy full screen.

We are on the bay looking towards the sand dunes and village of Perranporth in Cornwall on this windy day. One is usually advised to keep your DSLR camera and len’s well covered up in such conditions as this but I have never been too good with rules. The red dog-poo bin draws our attention of course. Enjoy full screen.

A week’s break in north Lancashire allows me to visit some places that we have not been to for some years now. This is the seaside area known as Silverdale and one might imagine how that name was derived. We have just finished our picnic here and are looking down Morcambe Bay over the treacherous Walton Sands which houses the Kent Channel. The tall buildings in the distance is the Heysham Nuclear Power station. Our path continues between the narrow walled path on the left into the headland trees and beyond. Enjoy full screen and have a good week.

As the sun starts to drop behind the mountains, a beautiful thing starts to happen to these shifting sands -they display different colours each time you look. A place to meditate and loose one's troubles.

Taken a few years back now, this splendid iron fence adorns the promenade of our Yorkshire coastal town of Filey. Over the years countless layers of white paint has been added onto this, to counter the constant salt spray, but as you can see the rust still prevails giving it an attractive look too. The top rail is in fact painted a very similar but darker rich ochre colour. In the distance one can see the headland of the famous Filey Brig. PiP shows Filey itself. HFF, enjoy the weekend.

A long view into this Yorkshire holiday resort. Demonstrating that a day at the seaside is always worth a paddle even in such cool dull weather.

After a night of torrential rain, the day starts wet and very windy with gust up to 70mph. Anyway, not deterred, we took to the beach that we could see clearly form our lounge window. As you can see, with the wind blowing spume and sand everywhere - this was not for the feint hearted with an expensive camera kit in hand. Forgive the slight softness of the picture here, I had to wipe my lens a few times to rid salt water and sand :) About a mile of this walk before we gave up and retreated for coffee back in the warmth.

There are fences everywhere in Britain. Here we see a lone fence on a big beach at Formby Point near Southport. HFF to all, and enjoy your weekend, Herb See Pip for my other Dune fence. ps more info on these fences: www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/heritagemanagement/erosion/appendix_1.4.shtml