Foreshortened perspective

I thought this image is a perfect example of the compressed perspective given by a long zoom lens. From the post in the foreground over the salt marsh and across the bay to the Bridge to Nowhere is a distance of at least half a mile and the houses beyond are about a mile away. Yet the long lens brings them all close together whilst retaining a moderate degree of size for each element. This is the main pathway across the salt marsh to the beach which the park rangers would prefer you to use to avoid erosion.

The low wooden structures are bridges across small streams for horses, which must have cost the council some hundreds of pounds to build as they took two or three workmen several days to build each one. They are unfortunately in the main studiously avoided by most horses as they clearly do not trust them. I've seen many a rider trying in vain to persuade their horses to use these wooden bridges.

At times of full mooon and high tides the whole of this area can be flooded by the sea as indeed it was this afternoon when I took the dogs for their walk.