Felixstowe Ferry Scavenger Hunt

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Suffolk Professional Photographer, Gill Moon, holds monthly walks around areas of her `home turf` in Suffolk. These are free! and are really worth participating in. This one was entitled ` Felixstowe Ferry Scavenger Hunt` and there were about 14 of us taking part. Gill gives us ideas and concepts to photograph while sauntering around a particular area, with lots of helpful advice `to boot`.
Gill has a web site well worth looking at, and where you will find details of all her courses, paid and unpaid, as well as examples of her work..



Having never visited this area of Felixstowe before, we were fascinated by some of the boats being lived in on the estuary. Such as below.



Eccentric might be the word! This was called POTAMUS - look! two hippo.


Between 1805 and 1812 eight Martello Towers were built on the Felixstowe Peninsula as a defence against a possible invasion by Napoleon's forces. These squat, ovoid-shaped brick-built towers were immensely strong and were inspired by an ancient watch tower at Mortella Point in Corsica. Part of a larger network along the east and south coast of England, the towers were named with letters of the alphabet. The Martello Tower 'Q' along South Hill is now converted to a home.


Although the weather was `threatening`, it stayed dry for the 2 hours we were here. I liked the clouds above these cottages. Not in the challenge but appealed to me anyway.


So, the first image is of the day. It is of the days Scavenger Hunt list - but on a rather crumpled piece of paper! As you can see there are 12 in all, and starting from the top of the list we have .....



... BLUE. I think the top one is my favourite of the two.



WATER was the next one, and here I took 2 images. There was no lack of the stuff about here!



LOOKING IN, and the first one was about looking in a window, and the other into a reflection of myself `into` a tunnel. I liked this second one which was in the side of the Martello Tower.


My choice here for UNEXPECTED, was of a rabbit on top of a boat shed. Not real of course!


LINES AND CURVES IN THE SAME IMAGE. I think this one works?


PATTERNS on the hull of a boat.


MULTIPLE USE OF TEXTURES


RELATING TO FISHING - tricky one this in a boatyard full of fishermen and tackle!



WOODEN. Here there were plenty of wooden objects - from wooden posts to junk piles of wood.


DETAIL in the copy permits stickers on the hull of this boat.


OLD - say no more! A really enjoyable time, with a coffee and chat afterward.



Location: Felixstowe Ferry, Felixstowe IP11 9RZ, UK

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