Orford Ness Background

On the first visit to Orford Ness I was moved by an isolated and exposed land mass of great sensual purity and intensity. It felt like stepping onto another planet surface, a gently undulating shingle desert with a sparse, but unique marine shore vegetation. This remote site is the perfect place to observe and record the interaction of sea tide, swell, and storm action on the shingle land form. The history of natural activity is visible through the ridge elevation, horizontal contour, shingle size, and vegetation colonies.