Fisher-men's Cottages, a photo from Devon, England

Photographer's Note

Taken in Beer, a small Devon seaside village.

Taken from the net.

The town name Beer, has its origins in the old English words for woodland - bere and beare - due to dense nature of the forestation around the town in times gone by.
Beer was contructed on a series of levels and the adjacent steep slopes have been utilised in the past for many diverse reasons.
Sherborne Abbey, which used to be one of the largest landowners in the vicinity used the sheltered topography and mild microclimate of Beer to cultivate grapes for alcoholic drinks.

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zorro_amman (318) 2006-08-06 9:42 [Comment]

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padeg (423) 2006-08-06 9:51

Hi Stephen,

I like the feeling given by that photo, even though the sign painted on the road is not so friendly. The colors and graphic composition are fine to me. I would not mind going for a walk in that town next time I come to UK.
TFS,
Pascal.

Gustaw (21670) 2006-08-06 10:20

Hi, friend!
Photo have good rytmical composition, good qualitty, nice colours, light is good.
Good work!
Marek

jw0478 (34) 2006-08-06 14:25 [Comment]

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nwoehnl (122) 2006-08-06 14:59

Hi Stephen. So do the folks from this village actually say "I live in Beer"? LOL. Reminds me of an old W.C.Fields quote: "Drowning in a barrel of whisky - death, where is thy sting ..."

But enough about that. About the photo, the lighting and the color palette are quite spectacular, and the cottages make a good repetitive pattern. The "no entry" writing on the road is well included, too. The photo seems to be leaning to the left though, there is virtually not a single vertical line in the frame that is, well, vertical.

Or maybe I just have this impression because I had too much beer.
;p

Glint (6171) 2006-08-06 18:40

Hello Stephen,
This is a good composition. I like the colours and textures. However, I think you have forgotten to use the straighten option in PP. The left house wall looks seriously wonky!
bev

coolio (308) 2006-08-07 15:33

grat shot i would like to live there :P

robiuk (10807) 2006-08-07 19:03

Lovely photo with these houses lined up and their yellowish rooftops being in good contrast with a great blue sky.
I wonder if the first two houses on the left could've been straightened a bit, though...
Apart from that, a really good one!
Robi

alainh (33209) 2006-08-08 3:46

hello Stephen
nice shot. the same house for everybody. good pov and colours.
regards
alain

stiginthedump (1833) 2007-04-16 2:05

Hey thanks for posting this one Stephen! The house 4th on the right used to belong to my grandparents! Beer's cool place and I'm gonn have to make a trip back there sometime. Those old cottages although reather small go for a pretty penny these days on the property market!