Katt on the nudist beach (series)

Some personal snapshots from last autumn for you:

Three years ago  I bought a small Nikon Coolpix that is resistant to sand and water. I  wanted a small camera that I can use when walking around in the city  because I don't like to look like a tourist with the camera hanging in  front of the belly - and at night in some streets the pro camera would  be gone very fast anyway. And as it is waterproof, I thought I'd use it  at the beaches, too.

In fact I have used it exactly once, in April 2014. I wasn't really happy with it. It's image quality is  quite poor. It only takes heavily compressed JPEG-images, no raw, and so  I don't have a chance to really correct white balance, contrast or  colors later with image processing.

It never takes the picture  when I press the button. I know it is because it tries to focus, but  in fact the feeling is, as if the camera would think: shall I take this  picture? Or not? Or maybe?

So, the small box was sleeping in the a  drawer until I took it out and put it in the car for the travel. There  it continued to sleep, because in fact my mobile phone takes better  images for these purposes.

But I don't want to use the mobile phone too much on  beaches, and even less, when it could get wet. And so one sunny day, on a  beautiful beach on the coast of Spain (Playa de Cantarriján, if you  want to search it in Google maps), I woke it up.

I tried to take  some decent shots - some of them succeeded artistically, don't you  think? But then there was a water drop on the lens (where is the lens on  this little thing?) or it did not want to focus where I wanted it to  focus, or it changed the settings because I touched one of those small buttons and controllers.

Anyway: as you can see we had fun on that marvelous beach. October 8th, 30° C, clear water ofh just the  right temperature - and my freshly enamored girl whom I met just a week or so ago in front of the camera.

As this is my Patreon  stream that only my highly estimated patrons - you! - can see, I do not  only put the really good ones into this series, but also the personal  snapshots.

I hope you get a feeling of the situation during that shooting - and enjoy!

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