At this time of year, often between bouts of bad weather, Newlyn hosts an ever-changing display of lighting conditions which is what drew the founders of what became known as the Newlyn School, a band of artists who embraced painting en plein air (painting the subject in the open not in a studio) that combined the styles of the flourishing French impressionistic movement with a degree of naturalism...
speaking of light, the hardy team from Newlyn Harbour Lights are hard at it every weekend getting the displays ready for the Xmas break...
1100hp to the left, 12 arm power to the right...
It's now Monday morning and a brace of crabbers in to land...
as another early morning light show floods the harbour...
and a market stacked out with plenty of fish...
in Bay 1 mainly hake form the Britannia V...
Silver Dawn...
Ajax
Stelissa
and the fly-shooter, Acciona...
Bay 2 was mainly full of quality flats and monk tails from the beam trawlers that landed over the weekend...
and some cracking plaice...
with spurdogs not plaguing all the netters this tide...
auctioneer Ryan is only too happy to be back sorting cuttles by hand after a busy week away sampling the delights of Sicilian cuisine...
ling, a good substitute for cod if your monger has it...
bonito tuna...
bream...
bass...
lobster, octopus and squid more than enough to make your average buyer happy...
and, yet more hake from the netter Ajax...
as the light changes again...
those cheeky little turnstones, always on the lookout for a few crumbs...
Wexford registered, Shauna Leon up on the hard...
they've got this landing thing sorted at South West Shellfish...
making life much easier for the big crabbers...
advertising your wars? - no need to go to all the expense of hiring models for a photoshoot when home-grown will do just as well...
loos like she's more than a few sea-miles under her belt...
the visiting Salcombe crabber, Emma Jane about to land...
as the waiting transport turns up to take their fish...
looks like a good day's work to change over nets on the Fish Direct team.
