‘The twee beach huts stand in contrast to the bleak industrial landscape’: Fred MacGregor’s best phone picture

With a new child in a sling and a polystyrene tray of fish and chips in his palms, Fred MacGregor got here throughout this scene on the finish of North Yorkshire’s Saltburn Pier. The photographer was on vacation together with his spouse and kids, so had “neither the area within the bag, nor the headspace” for his common DSLR.

“The photographer Chase Jarvis as soon as mentioned, ‘The most effective digicam is the one you might have with you’ and it was an iPhone 7 I had with me that day,” MacGregor says. “Generally capturing on a cellphone can have its limitations, however on this event it carried out simply positive. I solely wanted a number of minor edits, like a little bit of brightening, to actually deliver out the central line of the wave.”

Initially from London, MacGregor has lengthy admired the standard of sunshine within the north of England, discovering it extra “clear, low and good” than within the capital. The best way it hit the cliffs and the water appealed to his photographic eye, as did the comparatively uncommon angle of the shot.

“A number of surf images are taken from the seashore, going through out to sea, or alongside the barrel of the wave. With this, I used to be capable of present the context, and place this kinetic determine in its wider setting,” MacGregor says.

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“The twee, vibrant seashore huts stand in distinction to the grim industrial panorama to the best, however each are a part of the reality,” he says. “An image that tells the reality could be tough to search out as of late.”