Submitter's name:	Ian Nichols
Title:	Beside the Seaside
Equipment:	OM-4, 50/1.8
Film:	Ilford Pan-F
Location:	The sea-front, Overlooking the pier (just out of frame to the left), Cromer, Norfolk.
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

Lovely composition, which would also have worked very well if the people and the lantern were somewhat more on the right in the composition. Very nice, and in this picture the B/W works really well for me.

Comment left by: Mickey Trageser (no e-mail specified)

I agree with Olaf. I always prefer to have the people looking into the frame, rather than out. I do like the classing BW styling. Only the sign on the post hints at the timeframe. I can almost smell the sea air. ... and maybe the fragrance of funnel cakes? hmmm, yumm.

Comment left by: siddiq (no e-mail specified)

ah, i like the strong blacks. might have cropped slightly from the bottom to eliminate the stray railing?

Comment left by: andrew fildes (afildes@netlink.com.au)

Disagree. For me, these people are restrained by the railings, the regulations, so that they become mere observers of the life represented by the ocean. I really like this shot, perhaps because it reminds me of every seaside holiday I had as a kid. Also feel that there something a touch desperate here - daughter visiting the mother she's put in an old people's home in windswept Cromer? I'd be tempted to take of the foreground and right side to give a classic L shape composition and anchor them better. But, what would I know?! Top shot.

Comment left by: John Palmer (no e-mail specified)

Marvellous. This has emotional resonances in so many ways - I always feel there is something slightly depressing or sinister about the architecture of seaside furniture. This shot captures the darkness superbly.

Comment left by: Chris Barker (imagopus@threeshoes.co.uk)

I like this photo. I try for this atmosphere all the time and I rarely achieve it. Purists might say that the subjects' looking out of frame is bad... I like it.

Comment left by: Mike Lazzari (no e-mail specified)

I like the fact that the women are looking beyond the frame of the picture. They are taking in the world outside the frame and it draws the viewer along with them. Excellent composition.

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