In Camera...Clear Winter Days

The last few days have been more like winter should be, cold, clear crisp air and blue skies and low, strong winter sunshine have brought some colour back to the landscape. The image above shows the dunes at Formby on the Sefton coast with some flooding in the foreground, a remnant of the heavy, continuous rains of the the last couple of months, reflecting the blues of the sky.

Later the same day at Crosby beach the sun sinks into a band of cloud spreading from the west, casting a curtain of warm golden colours across the cold winter scene, the seabirds in constant motion against over the cold waters; their raucous calls the only sound in the clear air.