In Camera ... HMS Liverpool

At 08.30 this morning HMS Liverpool, a Type 42 Destroyer, sailed past the iron men on her way into Liverpool for a four day visit to the city, her first for three years. It was a quiet, calm morning at the beach, tide on the way out and not much wind. The crew were lined up on the deck of the ship, I can imagine them standing to attention just as the iron men appear to be doing in the image above.

The sun was just catching the distant Welsh Hills, the lower slopes wreathed in cloud rising from the Conway valley as HMS Liverpool moved swiftly on up the Mersey towards her mooring at the cruise liner terminal.

In Camera ... February Storm at Crosby Beach

An early afternoon high tide together with gale force winds combined to bring the sea right up to promenade level at Crosby yesterday. I have been down at the beach on many stormy days but this is the first time I have seen the sea so high in the area close to the Leisure Centre. The spray was whipping across the promenade making it impossible to take more than one photograph without the lens being coated with salt water and misting up very quickly. The wind had swung round to the north west and was bitterly cold, whipping straight down the promenade; this together with the blinding spray made it difficult to hold the camera steady and frame shots but I present these few images which give a flavour of the day. I am constantly amazed that the iron men on the beach stay so upright given the pounding they receive from the waves.

In Camera ... January Travels in Ireland

Have recently been back to Ireland to make arrangements re the recent wedding photography and whilst in Dublin, driving along the coast road through Clontarf I made a detour over the old wooden bridge at Dollymount and down the Bull Road to capture this panoramic image of Dublin Bay and the old Poolbeg Power Station.