Beach huts and a captain

When it comes to the British coastline, I don't expect white, sandy beaches but instead look forward to colourful beach huts.

I've seen them in West Wittering and more recently in Whitstable.
This was one of the first outings where I felt more at home with the 20mm f/3.5 AIS Nikon lens. Although I love wide-angles, perhaps I'm more used to the ultra-wide 14mm or the not-so-wide 24mm...and so it took a while for me to become accustomed to the middle-of-the-pack 20mm.

Nikon Df, 20mm, f/5.6, 1/640s, ISO50

Nikon Df, 20mm, f/5.6 1/320s, ISO50

Nikon Df, 50mm, f/3.2, 1/1250s, ISO50

Breakaway

We got up reasonably early today (for a Bank holiday Monday) and headed down to West Wittering with Chloe, in her stylish Fiat Cinquecento.
West Wittering is one of the few, finely-grained, sandy beaches on the south coast of England that I'm aware of. The coast there is slightly reminiscent of the Normandy / Pas de Calais beaches. They're long and quite deep/wide, especially during low tide.

After spending around 30min acting as a solar panel, I went for a walk by myself to find out what was there.
Although West Wittering attracts a lot of visitors on a day like this, there are still lots of things to look at, away from people.

The sun was a bit too high at times but it also created some high contrast, which made for a good black and white conversion.
Here is used the X100s with a Hoya protective filter.
I don't normally like to use filters on my lenses, but since I'm not using the Fuji hood, I feel that I should protect the lens until I can find a suitable and improved workaround.