Goodbye old groynes
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Goodbye old groynes
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Goodbye old groynes

A bit of a sad image for me. These old groynes have been defending the beach at Swanage since I started visiting as a young boy over 30 years ago. Now they are being replaced by new ones as part of a major sea defence project that involves bring sand from Poole harbour to beaches of Dorset. Not sure what I think of us human beings intervening in nature but I do want to see the coast preserved. Anyway, I will miss these old groynes with their barnacles and stories. It was a tough image to take as the wind was strong and ice cold and I could barely see through my watering eyes.
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Location
Swanage, Dorset, UK
Equipment Used
T90 and 50mm 1.8 FD lens
Exposure
f5.6
Film & Developer
Efke 100 and Pyrocat-HD semi-stand development
Paper & Developer
negative scan
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none
What exactly is a groyne? Seen the same word in reference to some images by Faye Godwin.
 
roteague
I always wondered what the heck a "groynes" was. Tom Mackie mentions them in his book on landscape photography, and it always left me wondering. I guess now I know.
 
A groyne is a (usually) wooden wall running out from the shore to the normal low-water line on sandy beaches. They are common along the south coast of England (Sussex and Hampshire, mainly). Spacing varies from around 30 metres to 100 metres. Sand builds up on one side of the groyne due to the effects of wind and current. Longshore drift is the usual geomorphological term. The idea is to maintain deep sandy beaches and reduce currents for bathing. Some of these massive timbers will have been put in at the end of the 19th Century, though most are probably 20th Century.
 

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