As part of our Hemsby tasking day, we decided to do a task we'd had our eye on for a while. The seeing beyond sight photo challenge!

We don't know Hemsby as well as Great Yarmouth, so it seemed a perfect opportunity for using our other senses instead of sight and knowledge alone.

I was up first, blindfolded with Adams handy scarf, I was led down to the beach. With shouts from people around us trying to get me to remove the blindfold prematurely. They worked, and I had to be reblinded several times. Once down on the beach, I started snapping off photos, getting one of the floor, and the way I'd been led down straight away. Adam was the recipient of another photograph, being located by sound. A picture of the wooden walkway seemed interesting so that was taken, and things slowed down a little. Deciding to get a bit of variety we walked further onto the beach. I promptly walked into a fence, backed away and got a photo of it, which is my personal favorite of mine. Then I snapped off a photo in a random direction, and got an okay picture of the Hemsby lifeboat station. Walking even further onto the beach, I walked straight into a telegraph pole, which was difficult to do. A photo was taken. Then, whilst moving around the pole, I walked into the bin next to it, and that was photographed too. Finally I spun the camera around and got a photograph of blind me.

Next up was Adam, he was blindfolded and spun, and off we went. First off was the self photo, which came out rather well, then a photograph of me, that sortof missed. Next up Adam got a photo of some dog walkers whose dogs were pretty loud. At this point we decided to walk further down towards the sea, and overheard an interesting conversation. A man, talking to someone else saying 'Theres a baby penguin of the beach', with help from people remarking about it, and a tiny bit of guidance from Tom, Adam got a good photo of the 'penguin'. At this point, the task was suspended as this was a good opportunity for some good photos, the bird let us get very close, but it didn't seem injured, so we left it to its own devices and restarted the task. Reblindfolded, Adam snapped a shot of some 'sea fluff' which I think is sea water foam, evaporated leaving the salt from it, but don't quite me on it. The last 2 photos of Adams are of the sand dunes, with my head in them.


It was an interesting experience, and we both got some interesting photos. We'll both be recommending this task to the other GY0 players tomorrow at the Labyrinth building.