Alone

Paul Simon Carver
P Carver Photography
2 min readMar 11, 2016

Alone, water world comes to mind when I see this image, that bird must feel extremely isolated or at complete tranquility. A Very calm ocean gives the image the solace look and feel. Captured at Cart Gap Beach, Happisburgh.

Happisburgh is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is on the coast, to the east of a north-south road, the B1159 from Bacton on the coast to Stalham. It is a nucleated village. The nearest substantial town is North Walsham 6 miles (10km) to the west.

Happisburgh became a site of national archaeological importance in 2010 when flint tools over 800,000 years old were unearthed. This is the oldest evidence of human occupation anywhere in the UK. In May 2013, a series of early human footprints were discovered on the beach at the site, providing direct evidence of early human activity at the site.

The civil parish shrank by over 0.2 km in the 20th century by the erosion of its beaches and low cliffs. Groynes were constructed along the shore to try to stop the erosion. In the 2001 census, before the separation of Walcott parish to the north-west, the parish (which also includes the settlements of Happisburgh Common and Whimpwell Green) had a population of 1,372 in 607 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish is in the district of North Norfolk — Wikipedia

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Paul Simon Carver
P Carver Photography

A fine art creative photographer with a passion for black and white photography and raw real life images.