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.

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.

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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