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Spotlight on…. Beach Therapy

So this is the Beach Therapy project where I’ve taken the telephoto lens and explored the beach. Over my career, I’ve used the beach as my experimental lab, first in black and white; and then, when I moved to colour in the mid-1980s, I did The Last Resort, where I used a medium-format camera with flash.

Then I went and bought a macro lens and a ring flash and came in much closer, got the beach right close up. And when I switched to digital, looking back at the beach, coming back even further by using the telephoto lens, I went out and bought a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM to go with my EOS 5D, and

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