Wetlook World Forum

Being weekdays the beach was a lot less busy than it would have been in similar weather at the weekend.    The tidal state was also not ideal for wetlook, being low tide in the early afternoon - Ayr is one of these almost-flat beaches where it is a dauntingly long way to the water at low tide.    It also means very few people get fully wet, since you have to wade a very long way to reach 'swimming depth', and anyway at low tide you fall over a jagged reef when you reach thigh depth.

Nevertheless there was quite a lot going on, and I got a few pictures which I have added to my Flickr collection.    Though each pic focuses on a wet-clothed person over 16, there are also, inevitably, children visible in many of them.    Since people on the Forum seem to be becoming increasingly sensitive about the inclusion of children in pics, I have not included a link - you all know where to find my Flickr pics.    At places like Ayr I feel more comfortable keeping the phone upright, so all pics are in portrait format rather than the landscape format which I prefer - sorry about that.

Now some comments on some of the pics:

A43/A44: This is an example of me misjudging when to take the pictures.   The young ladies in tight jeans in these pics went on to wrestle one another into the water and get completely soaked, but the guy who stayed on the beach with their bags, shoes, etc was looking at me suspiciously after I took these pics so I felt I couldn't take any more (and indeed felt obliged to move away before they came back out).   If only I'd waited, but you never know how far in people are going to go....

A45: the person in wet leggings and tee on the right of this pic looks quite young in the picture for some reason - she isn't; suffice it to say that the children were calling her "Mum".

A47: I took this pic because the lady also has shoes on (trainers I think) but they are not really visible under the water.

A48: These are stretch jeans the young lady on the left is wearing; I took a closer pic just after this one which showed them better, but though Flickr said "upload completed" it hasn't uploaded for some reason, and since I delete the pics off the phone after uploading I've lost it.    This is also another case where the camera lies about somebody's age - her companion in hot pants may look like a teenager but is actually in her 30s at least.

A54: The young lady nearest the camera is wearing trousers and a lightweight jacket, and had been sitting in the water with her jacket mostly submerged some time earlier, but I couldn't take a pic then because she was surrounded by others in bathing suits (and anyway you wouldn't have been able to tell what she was wearing whilst submerged).    The one I managed to take is not very good either, I'm afraid, because her companion in a bathing suit was always on the sunny side of her so I gave up and went to the 'wrong' side - she crouched down and soaked the jacket again just after I took the pic, btw.

Its a start anyway - I hope for much more further south later this summer.