A very cold October day, a strong north west wind was blowing sand along the beach as I waited for the QE2 to make her final approach up the Mersey. This picture was the result of a long cold wait, something one has to be prepared to do when you preplan a picture such as this.
I had first arrived on the beach when the QE2 was a bright spot on a sunlit horizon and picked my spot where I thought she would be framed by the iron men as she sailed past. It was almost an hour before she sailed into this position, an hour in which the weather changed as cloud began to build up and I hoped that, as more and more people appeared on the beach, no one would walk in front of my position. There was one moment when a late arriving photographer ran down onto the beach as the vessel sailed in front of the wind turbines and he stopped for a moment right in the centre of my shot before moving on to the left as the QE2 sailed into my picture and a ray of sunlight came through the clouds lighting her structure beautifully. That burst of light was good fortune and not something I could arrange, lifting the vessel out of the cloudy background.
The large print of this image has proved to be a very popular picture, a record of a historic moment on Crosby beach.
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