Iron Men at Crosby

A trip to Crosby to photograph the Iron Men A.K.A Another Place by Anthony Gormley. It is very difficult to get a different angle on these photogenic statues but on a sunny summer day with the tide out this is the best I could come up with using silver effex pro  2 - preset 24 Full contrast and structure. then one press of the button and it's done !

Black-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit taken at RSPB Marshside.

Fountains Abbey

Britain's largest monastic ruin and most complete Cistercian abbey is a World Heritage site. Fountains Abbey was the second of the Yorkshire houses to be founded. In spite of its rather inauspicious beginnings, Fountains became the largest and richest of the Northern abbeys and headed an extensive family that extended to the shores of Norway. Fountains stemmed from the Benedictine house of St Mary’s, York, where a group of reform-minded monks fled from their abbey to pursue a harsher and more disciplined way of monastic life.

A day trip to Anglesey

 

Menai Suspension Bridge

 

The Menai Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, it was the first modern suspension bridge in the world.

Puffin Island and Trwyn Du Lighthouse

Puffin Island is an uninhabited island off the eastern tip of Anglesey, Wales. It was formerly known as Priestholm in English and Ynys Lannog in Welsh.Trwyn Du Lighthouse is a lighthouse between Dinmor Point near Penmon and Ynys Seriol, or Puffin Island, south east Anglesey, at the north entrance to the Menai Strait and marking the passage between the two islands.

A blast from the past

JSRA Jet Ski race Meeting at Leisure Lakes at Tarleton. Lots of action but a lot less competitors than I remember.

Who says romance is dead ?

A photo from our trip to Bempton Cliffs last week. I am not sure if this is normal behavior, but this Gannet was definitely picking a bunch of flowers rather than grass from the cliffs tops before flying off with a bunch in it's beak.

Downy Ducking's

A trip to Martin Mere and we where surprised to still see lots of duckings around. These little Shelduck where particularly cute.