One of Stephen's cousins was married in Eastbourne during the summer, and we made a day of it. From the following pictures, you will see that our day lasted well into the evening, too!
These pictures were scanned using the CanoScan FS2710 film scanner.
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The Pier at Eastbourne is well lit at night and affords many photo opportunities. I've decided to start this page with a picture which encompasses much of the length of the Pier.
I tried to be ruthless about what I included on this page, but I couldn't choose between these two pictures, so I've put them both up. They were taken early in the twilight from a vantage point to the west of the Pier, while all of the other shots on this page were taken with my tripod set up to the east of the Pier.
Here is a closer shot of the end of the Pier, where a nightclub was in full swing.
The landward end of the Pier is occupied by this building, which houses an amusement arcade and a Burger King. It's probably one of the noisier Burger Kings you might visit.
Here are two closer views of the building from the last picture. I think the view on the left is one of the better pictures I took that evening, while the view on the right of the entrance to the amusement arcade isn't bad either, even if I do say so myself!
The final picture was really taken a bit late in the evening, and captured no colour from the sky, but I'm including it because of the blood red moon rising to the left of the nightclub building.
I don't usually wax poetic, but seeing a moon this colour always brings to mind the poem "The Donkey" by G.K.Chesterton, which I'm going to quote:
