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Severn Beach – 18th August 2022

A black and white photograph I took about an hour after high tide at Severn Beach, Bristol, UK. I'm stood on a ramp in an access point opening of the sea defense installation; looking back at the municipal waste and recycling plant at Avonmouth.

A black and white photograph I'd taken about an hour after high tide 18th August 2022 at Severn Beach, Bristol, UK.

The waters of the Bristol Channel, with its average tidal rise and fall of some 8+ meters, is usually laden with silt. A lot of that silt settles out and some is always left behind as the tide recedes. There is then no beach here to speak of nor any sand – only mud.

Of course there's a little of the artist in all of us, it is said; I certainly wasn't the only one on the shoreline and the mud proved a blank canvas for someone.

An anonymous artist created this etching 18th August 2022, on the shore of the Bristol Channel at Severn Beach, Bristol, UK.

Although I've no clue as to whom left their work in this patch of shore. And a shame then that the next tide will wash away such artistry: without trace. Well, I say with out trace except that...

I've taken the liberty of photographing the etching and share it here with you along with my photograph above.

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