I set this morning in the vain hope of catching the back end of yesterday’s storm. Armed with my canon 7dmkii, 100-400 tele and my “carry everywhere” Olympus em10 II. As I guessed by the diminishing inshore waters report and the low tide the canon and big lens were not coming out of my bag, but I was at Seaham and area I don’t often vacant so I decide to have a bit of scout. I scrambled down to a place called Chemical beach, not easy but well worth it, what a fascinating place. It is choker block with the remains of old industries, iron, chemical works and coal mining. The beach is littered with wooden staithes, large iron slag boulders, a natural sea stack and the famous well photographed wheels. It was too late in the morning for my type of photography but with my Olympus I snapped a few promising compositions of the old industrial landscape for in the future ideas and headed towards those wheels. The tide had just turned and the waves were starting to wash back over the cast iron relics. The waves looked promising and could compensate for the flat light, DOH, however my filters and the right lens were all back at home. However I still had my tripod so removing the swiss-arca plate of my 100-400 lens bracket I attached it to the Olympus, and with the use of a small polariser, low iso and the smallest aperture I managed to get the shutter speed down enough to slow the wave action. Oh and good job for the wellies as I would of got soaked taking these photos. #landscape