Blackpool, Lancashire
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Turnstone in breeding plumage
Smaller than a redshank, turnstones have a mottled appearance with brown or chestnut and black upperparts and brown and white or black and white head pattern, whilst their underparts are white and legs orange. They spend most of their time creeping and fluttering over rocks, picking out food from under stones. What they eat: Insects, crustaceans and molluscs (Courtesy RSPB).
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What the World Needs now is Love.
...day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion:
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
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Turnstone stood on the sea defence wall high tide roost at Rossall, Lancs.
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Turnstone in breeding plumage
Smaller than a redshank, turnstones have a mottled appearance with brown or chestnut and black upperparts and brown and white or black and white head pattern, whilst their underparts are white and legs orange. They spend most of their time creeping and fluttering over rocks, picking out food from under stones. What they eat: Insects, crustaceans and molluscs (Courtesy RSPB).
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I love this poem by Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin...
Я люблю это стихотворение Александра Пушкина...
К Морю
Прощай, свободная стихия!
В последний раз передо мной
Ты катишь волны голубые
И блещешь гордою красой.
Как друга ропот заунывный,
Как зов его в прощальный час,
Твой грустный шум, твой шум призывный
Услышал я в последний раз.
Моей души предел желанный!
Как часто по брегам твоим
Бродил я тихий и туманный,
Заветным умыслом томим!
To the sea.....
Farewell, free element!
For the last time in front of me
You roll blue waves
And shine with proud beauty.
Like a friend's mournful murmur,
How to call him at the farewell hour,
Your sad noise, your inviting noise
I heard for the last time.
My soul's desired limit!
How often along your shores
I wandered silent and foggy,
We languish with cherished intent!
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After a grey old day Mrs T and I decided to take the dogs out for a walk along the sea front at Lytham. We were rather chilly with the light south westerly breeze blowing across the estuary and we bought couple of hot Latte's to take some of the chill off. I wasn't expecting any sort of sunset, but as we walked down near the windmill the sky started getting interesting. Luckily I had my camera gear in the car, so I rushed back to the car and collected the camera and tripod.
Mrs T was pretty cold so she went back to the car with the dogs and I managed to get back to the windmill in time to capture this shot of the strange cloud formation around the windmill, before the light went.
The windmill has had its sails fully repaired and fitted now, so it looked pretty good against this backdrop. A nice bonus shot, when I least expected it.
The sun manages to climb above the West Pennine Moors and start to cast its light across the Lancashire Coastline.
I had gone to Lytham to catch a sunrise and ended up down here by the Jetty looking for a decent composition to do justice to the light show. Couldn't really find a great deal on the marshy estuary, so settled with this!
Well this is the third sunset shot in a row I've posted. Need to change with the next one.
This is the sculpture of "Mary's Shell" situated on the beach at Cleveleys. This particular evening was quite spectacular with moody clouds flying across the sky as the sunset. It was pretty breezy, so the tripod needed a bit of help in keeping steady, it was also pretty cold, so no wonder I had the place to myself for a change.
The sun sets on the far horizon, leaving the timbers of the wreck of the "Abana" to see another night of decay.
The "Abana" was shipwrecked here in violent storm in December 1894. She was flying under a Norwegian flag sailing from Liverpool to Savannah in the USA. A large 1,257 ton wooden Barque, she had her sails and rigging ripped to shreds in the storm and her crew made for the shore by what they thought was a lighthouse. Sadly that was Blackpool Tower and the consequences were disastrous for the ship although all 17 crew and the ships dog survived.
Taken in blazing 28 degrees sunshine at 1.30pm. Not ideal conditions for black and white landscape photography. You sometimes have to go with what you're given!
Canon 5d3 with 24-105 lens @ 24mm
30 seconds, f18 ISO 100
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A bitterly cold winters evening, had me hurrying along the Lune coastal path to try and catch a sunset by the ruins of Cockersands Abbey. It is also a good location for shots of the diminutive Plover Scar Lighthouse, though with the icy shore and the tide half way in, that subject looked lost in the wide open estuary.
This remote and windswept spot on the NW coast near the Lune Estuary first became a hermitage in 1180. Ten years later it became an Abbey serving the north Lancashire and South Cumbria area. In those days this was a small clay island in marshland and it served as a hospital and leper sanctuary. However since the Abbot surrendered to the Kings Commissioners in 1539, it has lain here as a ruin!
You also have to be lucky here as the farmer often has large herds of cattle around the remains and whilst the footpath gives access the beasts can be a little troublesome.
Anyway, the light when I first got here was heavenly as you can see here. I did stay on for sunset and got some decent winter light through my chilly stay here.
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Stacked long exposures, Processed in LightRoom and PS...
Another shot from Rossall Point. The view across Morecambe Bay to the Lakeland Fells is just wonderful. You can also make out a ferry from Heysham sailing out towards the Isle of Man.
Another shot of the illuminations at Blackpool taken on my brief incursion on the promenade!
The colours of the lights on the Tower and Wheel changed frequently throughout my short stay. I would have explored a little more had I felt a little safer with all my camera gear being eyed up by passing groups of revellers.
Anyway, these colours closely resemble the kit of my favoured team in Manchester!
The Blackpool Tramway runs from Blackpool to Fleetwood on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire, England. The line dates back to 1885 and is one of the oldest electric tramways in the world. It is operated by Blackpool Transport and runs for 18 km (11.2mls). It carried 4.8 million passengers in 2019/20. Wikipedia
Lytham Hall is an 18th-century Georgian country house in Lytham, Lancashire, 1 mile from the centre of the town, in 78 acres of wooded parkland. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, the only one in the Borough of Fylde. Wikipedia
Turnstone in breeding plumage
Smaller than a redshank, turnstones have a mottled appearance with brown or chestnut and black upperparts and brown and white or black and white head pattern, whilst their underparts are white and legs orange. They spend most of their time creeping and fluttering over rocks, picking out food from under stones. What they eat: Insects, crustaceans and molluscs (Courtesy RSPB).
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A nice start to 2021 with a dawn at the seafront at Lytham. The sky was fabulous before dawn and although it was -5 when I took this, it warmed the heart!!
I decided that I had to make the most of these late sunrises early in the Year as the days are drawing out pretty quickly now and we will soon have to set an alarm clock to get a shot like this.
An autumnal glow on the shore at Anchorsholme. You can just make out the timbers of an old shipwreck in the waters as the tide comes in on the Fylde Coast.
North Pier is the most northerly of the three coastal piers in Blackpool, England. Built in the 1860s, it is also the oldest and longest of the three. Although originally intended only as a promenade, competition forced the pier to widen its attractions to include theatres and bars. Unlike Blackpool's other piers, which attracted the working classes with open air dancing and amusements, North Pier catered for the "better-class" market, with orchestra concerts and respectable comedians. Until 2011, it was the only Blackpool pier that consistently charged admission. Wikipedia
My last post of the Year was actually taken a week ago when I was rushing to get a sunset shot at nearby Cockersands Abbey. As I was dashing along the freezing coastal path, I saw I was catching up on a stranger walking ahead of me.
The stormy light was fabulous at the time and I took a couple of hand held shots with my D750, which I had strapped around my neck. I didn't think they would amount to anything as the light was quite dull apart from the golden glow over the distant Fleetwood!
Anyway, I downloaded all my Abbey shots from the D850 but didn't look at this image from my little camera until a few days later. I was surprised it came out as well as this, really.
I was also surprised when I passed this lone figure a few minutes later, as I frantically sped along the pathway, to find it was a lady! I bet she was a bit more concerned to see a 6"3" rucksack loaded man chasing along the icy path behind her though!!
As it will be my last post of the Year, can I wish you all the best for 2023 and many thanks for your wonderful comments and support during 2022.
Another shot from an incredible sunset on the coast at Fleetwood. It was pretty good at sunset, but after the sun went down the clouds just went this unreal colour of reds and yellows. I struggled to get decent long exposures as the wind was buffeting the camera on the tripod and sea spray was covering my big glass filters quicker than I could clean them.
So this was a regular exposure without anything other than a soft grad on the lens. The light was low so it was open for half a second capturing a little motion in the sea on the pebbles. It actually went a little more psychedelic in terms of colour after this too!!