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All calm on Cleveleys Beach. 118 second exposure using a 10stop ND filter.
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First post for a while as recently i've not been in a "photography mood". This shot was taken on our recent trip to spain with the Canon IXUS 950IS.]]>
More sun and wave action from Cleveleys
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Fleetwith Pike from the shores of Buttermere.
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Shock horror, it's not a landscape shot !
One of the grey seal pups at the Scottish Sealife Sanctuary. This is probably my one and only wildlife shot for this year, but then again ...
The view over towards a cloud obscured Helvellyn from Castlerigg Stone Circle.
Taken on a dull, grey, cloudy and windy day.
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Just back from a 3 day break in the Northern Lake District. Did we see any sunshine ? Yes, but only about 20 seconds on one of the distant fells. Did we get rain? Yes, it rained most of every day. Was it windy ? Yes Very !
This shot was from the top of the stile at Castlerigg Stone Circle. There was a bitterly cold strong westerly gale blowing at this exposed location, but the image stablisation on the lens appears to have come in handy.
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The Jolly Roger at Skippool Creek
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Todays sunset at Cleveleys Beach
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More Cleveleys rocks action.
A 5 Second exposure to try to flatten the rough seas that were around that day.
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A 347 second exposure of Fairhaven Lake.
Very little processing done on this, it is pretty much straight out of the camera, just a resize and sharpen in photoshop.
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St Annes Pier on the Lancashire Coast.
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The wrecked end of Lytham pier.
Storms, fires and the Irish Sea have done their best over the years to remove the derelict end of the pier at Lytham. But it's still standing.
This image was taken on the same stormy day as the previous images. I took around 20 shots at this location but this is the only one that is reasonably sharp, the rest are blurred due to the gale that was trying to blow the camera over.
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Taken the day before the Ireland to Heysham Cargo ship was hit by a freak wave during a storm and was eventually washed up on the beach here.
Thanks to everyone who has commented recently, they are very much appreciated and mean a lot to me.
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Water movement at Cleveleys Beach
An incoming tide, rough seas and a gale force wind made shooting conditions quite tricky at Cleveleys. The strong wind was rocking the camera and tripod and the sea was doing it's best to deposit itself on the filter with each incoming wave.
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Boat Trips around the Preston Marina.
Opened in 1892 Preston Dock was the largest single dock in the country and the first to introduce the roll on roll off traffic system in the late 1940's. Over 500 dockers were employed by the mid 1960's mainly handling cotton and wood pulp.
The port closed in 1979, due to the decrease in cotton imports and the increase in ship sizes which could not longer fit into the dock.
The Docks are now home to a pleasure craft marina and the surrounding areas have been redeveloped to include a retail park, cinema, offices, dockside housing and boat trips.
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Coniston Pier in the Lake District
For a real winter scene take a look at Frozen paradise by John Maslowski
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Continuing the Black and White series is this shot from within the grounds of Prague Castle.
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The Jazz boat on the Vltava river in Prague.
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Continuing the black and white series with this shot of the steps down from Prague Castle into the Old town.
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This picture marks the start of a small series of black and white architecture shots.
These are the ice breakers on the Vltava river in Prague which are designed to lift and break the ice flows before they hit and damage Charles Bridge.
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The view towards the central fells of the Lake District from the summit of Scout Crag.
The haze in the valley isn't a finger print on the lens, but low mist moving through the valley.
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Scout Scar is a limestone crag a couple of miles west of Kendal in the South West corner of the Lake District. On a clear day the views from the crag are outstanding with a complete 360 degree view of Ingleborough, Morecambe Bay, The Howgills and much of the Central Lakeland Fells in full view.
Saturday wasn't a particularly clear day, with rain in the air and low cloud covering the tops of all the fells.
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This is one of the many streams and brooks that lead into the Yarrow Reservoir. Taken back in November when we had some sunshine !
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Following on from yesterdays shot of Yarrow Reservoir this shot is taken from the other side of the same bridge.
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Yarrow reservoir at Anglezarke nr Rivington in Lancashire. Taken during November 07.
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One from the archives, taken in Summer 06 in the Kootenay National Park in Canadian Rockies.
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8 seconds of captured rotation from the worlds largest glitterball on the South Promenade at Blackpool
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Another shot from the summer trip to Scotland, this one is taken from the side of the river at Achriabhach Falls, in Glen Nevis.
Processed entirely in Canon DPP v3.2, Photoshop was only used to convert to JPG and resize for web use.
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I'm having a lot of fun going through some older images and processing them with DPP v3.2. This was taken earlier on this year at Skippool Creek near Blackpool.
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McCaigs tower overlooking Oban in Scotland taken from the Oban to Mull ferry.
A memorial to John Stuart McCaig, a local banker. McCaig commissioned the project to employ local stonemasons who were without work during the winter months. Construction only took place during these months between 1895 and 1902. It was intended that the building become a museum and art gallery, but the money and the construction stopped with the death of McCaig in 1902.
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16 November, 1943, a Wellington Bomber, Zulu 8799, crashed into Hurst Hill, killing all onboard. The aircraft was flying on a Bullseye training exercise piloted by Joseph B Timperon from Australia.
This memorial, at Lead Mines Clough, is now part of the Anglezarke Reservoir trail.
This image is also the first i've processed just using Canons Digital Photo Professional
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Another shot from Derwent Water, this one is taken a bit further around the water from the previous shot
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We finally managed to get out and about yesterday. With the promise of some breaks in the cloud we headed to the Northern end of the Lake District and ended up here at Keswick, unfortunately so had everyone else and the breaks in the cloud never appeared.
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Incoming weather front bringing heavy rain towards us at Loch Lomond.
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A mono conversion of last months Carnasserie Castle shot. The conversion gives the impression the castle is on fire.
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The end of September marks the last shot from our time in Scotland. I havn't picked up the camera for about 6 weeks, but the trees are starting to turn, so this might convince me to get out and about.
Very little processing done of this, it's pretty much straight out of the camera. Taken with a circular polariser.
It wasn't until after I posted the shot that someone pointed out the skateboarder in the clouds...
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Another view from the shores of Loch Linnhe.
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Driving North along the promenade at Oban, we decided to see where the road went. After a couple of miles the road comes to a dead end at a holiday village next to Oban beach, yes Oban has a clean sandy beach, in fact it's called Ganavan Sands. The beach was full of people, so we headed over to the rocky outcrops, away from the crowds, where i grabbed a few shots.
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