So here is the highly anticipated second part of the Brighton Pier blog post of my shoot down Brighton....

I lie probably most of you didn’t know there was a part one. Scroll down to read part one if you haven’t already :)

So after we grabbed some food we wondered the pier once more. Might as well make the most of it while its open. It was actually quite eerie. Brighton in pretty miserable weather on a weekday, felt like a ghost town, well on the Pier at least. Most shops closed, only a handful of people to be seen.

If you follow my Facebook you may remember a post about Noo Noo the Teletubbies character.

"Ever wondered what happens to Kids TV actors after the shows finish, well I found Noo Noo in a rough state in Brighton, Don’t do drugs kids !!"

Harsh flash and quite a cropped image, kind of imitating when you see celebrities getting snapped when they are seen in a rough state. #PrayForNooNoo. The rest of the time on the pier was spent taking moody sea shots and the odd shot of the empty walkways.

Then we set out to take shots of the pier from the beach, thinking it would be nice to do a long exposure of the lights, as we got down to the beach and started setting up the tripod, just our luck that they shut all the lights off. So scrapping that idea we looked around for more lights, just so happens the wheel was still lit, so not waiting for that to be shut off we quickly took some long exposures. As much as light trails are cliché, I have always enjoyed adding them within landscape photography.

We spent the next part of our trip directing the camera to the sea. Long exposures made the sea look almost like a big murky puddle of milk. Misty yet smooth visually. Many of the images give a moody feel to such a location, which most people see as a bright happy place. As you can see some of my images take a slightly different approach to those happy ideals. After moving under the pier then we went for a walk along the beach. On the way we saw a giant tepee, for a club night, looks really cool. Sadly we weren’t really dressed for clubbing haha.

Finally we came to the old burnt down pier. Now if I didn’t credit Mark Checkley for the idea to walk down to the old pier, he would never let it go. But it was worth it for this shot. The Rusty corroded stilts, the only reminisce of the walkway and the bare shell, gave nice depth to the image.

As our long day came to a close we got in my car and drove home in the pouring rain, a very productive day all in all. Cant wait to go more places :)

- Charlie Bluck