Coastal exposure

My Fujica with the wide-angle lens on Wells beach. Following our evening with The Hu, we woke early-ish in a Premier Inn off the A47. We grabbed some bad coffee and drove an hour to the coast, aiming to retrace the walk we enjoyed in spring 2023 along the beach at Wells-next-the-Sea and back via the edge of Holkham Nature Reserve. The forecast was for a cold, blustery, wet day, but it was hot, calm and mostly sunny. Lucky us. It’s a good time to be in Norfolk, with the autumn migration well underway. We saw several flocks of Fieldfares and Redwings undulating over the marsh, and hundreds of Pink-footed Geese flying in from Greenland and Iceland. And, for the first time in decades, I carried my SLR camera. I recently scanned some cherished 35mm photos for a project and felt inspired to dig out my Fujica STX-1, which my parents bought for me second-hand in the 1990s. The body and lenses are still in good condition, and it’s entirely mechanical, so I only needed to replace the battery in…