Come in Closer

Stockton Beach, May 31, 2020

• Water rushes out and around the top of tank traps just popping out of the sand on Stockton Beach.

I like to think this is last in my series from the Tank Traps at Stockon Beach, but I also don’t want to shut the door on it completely. After all, I still have a few other photos from this particular morning I can share with you. But I think this might be it for now.

We came here hoping for the tank traps to be completely exposed for our photographic pleasure, but when we got here… they were nowhere to be found. We’d arrived a day too late to get the shots we’d come here to capture. Instead, we spent ages traipsing along the beach looking for these traps until we noticed the small tips of them jutting out of the sand.

This particular image is similar to the previous one I posted (you can see that one here), but very different to my long exposure shot (seen here).

But for this one I got lower and closer to the traps themselves, risking my gear for this shot of the flow running out and around these pieces of textured concrete before the next set of waves rolled in.

Needless to say, I got rather wet. But the outcome from it is this image, which I really do quite like.

And I hope you do too.

I acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and waters on which I took this photo. I also pay my respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Elders past and present, and celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal peoples and their ongoing cultures and connections to country.

The details for this image are:

• Nikon D750 with Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 G2

• NiSi GND 16⁣ Filter

• Sirui W-1204 tripod with K-20x Ball Head⁣

• 1/2s

• f/11

• ISO50