Shrimp

Shrimp near Forton, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

I have been concentrating my efforts in recent weeks on getting my boat 'Shrimp' ready for the season. She has been through a Boat Safety test, had her engine serviced and her underwater sections painted in about ten coats of epoxy, primer and antifouling. Although I actually rather enjoy all this sort of thing (except the bit where the paint goes in your mouth and you sit up too suddenly to spit it out, bashing your head on the hull and dropping the paintbrush down your shirt), I have hardly taken a single photograph since April.
I've always been a bit of a tart with my camera over the years. Teasing it a little by taking it out every day then not even looking at it for weeks or even months. Buying it expensive accessories then leaving them wrapped up for ages. Talking about going out at the weekend than disappearing off somewhere else... So it came as a bit of a surprise to it when I heaved it on to my boat and took it for a ride up the canal at the weekend.
And it came as a bit of a surprise to me to find out just how much I have missed taking photographs while I have been drinking Underwater Primer and giving myself double vision.
We're going out again next weekend. We might go to the beach or up to The Lakes. I haven't decided yet.
I just hope I can remember which buttons to press.
Its been a while.