Another blur. Crosby

Another blur. Crosby, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

Another blur shot from Crosby beach along with one of the ironmen of Crosby with the wind farm in the background.

Also.. looking forward to the weekend and the big puppets that will be walking around Liverpool.

Another Egg in the wall. Happy Easter

Another Egg in the wall. Happy Easter, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

The first egg of the torrent to be gobbled today. Enjoy your chocolate and your Easter.


100mm Macro, Fixed head diffused + fixed head grid. Warmed, cloned.

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Sun always shines on Crosby Beach

Sun always shines on Crosby Beach, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

Not just another, ‘Another place’ shot from Crosby beach, although I can see a couple when large, along with the wind turbines, but I couldn’t help taking a snap of a couple of what I could only describe as sand sculptures that had been left, I was pretty impressed.

I've done a bit more tweaking than I usually do to get the image something like the way I want it, hope that's ok.

We've just been across to the east coast of England, Bridlington, rain, Scarborough, rain and Hull got soaked, the weather wasn’t kind, so I remembered the sun shine on Crosby beach.

Warmer days.

Warmer days., a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

We've had such a mild 'winter' so far, but today I managed to take a trip down to the beach, see what I could snap, near got blown off my feet for my trouble, a runner much fitter, larger etc. than me actually did.. ouch... time for a sharp exit.

Anyway I thought this snap of my daughter blowing dandelions from a while back made me feel warmer.

Hope you are all doing good.

Have a great weekend.


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Treading the light fantastic, Crosby beach, Explore Frontpage

Treading the light fantastic, Crosby beach, Explore Frontpage, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

Another from down the beach at Crosby, most of my pictures from here of late have had the Anthony Gormley 'Another Place' statues out of view or as secondary features, but they are responsible for pulling in a quantity of photographers and tourists. They are made iron and each is slowly developing a personality over time, each spending more or less time in the water, some are clean, some have a skin of rust and others are covered in barnacles.

Here's another taking a shallow paddle in the reflected light of a sunset, before taking a dip in the evening tide.

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The Golden Path, Crosby

The Golden Path, Crosby, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

A shot from my muddy boots evening at Crosby beach last year.

Have pushed the processing to bring out a little more drama for this one, I like the contrast of both colour and light, and the snake of water leading you out to sea with the windfarm to the right of frame, hope you find it agreeable.


Have a great day.

Hot tea, Fiddlers ferry

Hot tea, Fiddlers ferry, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

On the way home yesterday evening, grey on grey, not too much to recover in full colour.

In shot pylons leading upto Fiddlers ferry coal powered power station, two of the eight huge cooling towers and the steam.

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Windmills of your mind, Crosby. HSS

Windmills of your mind, Crosby. HSS, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

A shot from a little while back from the beach, so I've gone past saying sorry for Another place shots, but the windturbines must come a close second for taking centre stage in shots that I upload, but I find something magical about them when they are spinning.

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Miles between us. Crosby

Miles between us. Crosby, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

Another 'Another place' ironman shot from Crosby beach.

Here two of the 100 ironmen with a mile marker between, and the distant hills of Wales for a backdrop.

Shot this evening, there was a fire up in Hightown, the grass looked as if it was on fire??... anybody know more?


Fred the weather man says that we might be able to see the northen lights this evening, something to watch out for....


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Mono world on fire, Crosby

Mono world on fire, Crosby, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

A mono rendition of the world on fire shot from the muddy boots session last year.


Ripples of water and sand catching the light.

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A River runs through II, Crosby

A River runs through II, Crosby, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

Another from the moody boots folder archive, I've reprocessed this one, pushing it somewhat, see what you think.

Ripples of water and sand catching the light.

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Tinted view. 750,000 views thank you.

Tinted view. 750,000 views thank you., a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

A quick shot of a pair of my anaglyph 3D glasses, with the filtered light falling on a piece of gallerie gold fibre silk baryta paper, which annoyingly I managed to print an email on, an annoying mistake, but anyway I digress.


Today I noticed passing 750,000 views on flickr, thanks for passing by once more.

World on fire (I dont want to set the), Crosby.

World on fire (I dont want to set the), Crosby. HSS, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

A reprocessed and rebalanced shot from the muddy boot session archives.

I wanted to change the colour balance, but I've also tweaked curves and done a little dodging, no doubt over the top, but on my monitor it looked kind of interesting and has some added drama, which I tend to like, see what you think..

Big ship sails into the river Mersey watched over by the Ironmen of Crosby

Big ship sails into the river Mersey watched over by the Ironmen of Crosby, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

In shot is the 22,000 tonne Panama registered cargo vessel 'Sv Nikolay'.
Don’t really know if you would describe this as a big ship... but I would, it did look to be large and lightly laden riding high in the water, the pooled water left by the leaving tide, left a mirrored surface for reflection, and the Ironmen looked on as to greet the ship into the river Mersey.
I quite liked the painted feel to the cloud backdrop here, I think these would have been perfect light and conditions to have seen tall ships in, oh well the less romantic bulk cargo ship will have to do.

If you want to track ships, this makes it easy, you can see where this ship is now, and what its doing...
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Steps, Liverpool

Steps, Liverpool, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

Shot of steps outside the Liverpool Echo arena taken from the Liverpool Wheel, I like wheels but have to admit to feeling a little uneasy about looking down from heights like this.

I quite like the patterns made by the paving here, I think it had been damp but drying in the sun which also helps the texture, I had a few with people in shot which adds interest, but this one keeps it simple.


Kind of a high altitude abstract.



And once again I got through that without mentioning my Entry in the Manfrotto comp :)

Washed up, Crosby.

Washed up, Crosby., a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

In the process of being washed up on Crosby beach, a Jelly fish and the receding wave that is leaving him high and dry.

It’s amazing how many jelly fish are left on the beach, usually in groups which makes me think that there are whole multigenerational families that have all ended up snuffed out on the beach having caught the wrong wave, but that kind of seems odd in some respects, I’m sure I read they have no brains, but in which case I expect they didn’t see this coming.


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And once again I got through that without mentioning my Entry in the Manfrotto comp :)

Coastguard station, Crosby

Coastguard station, Crosby, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

It has been known for a little while that ten coastguard stations across the uk are 'at risk'. The suggestion being that we should have just three 24-hour national stations – at Southampton, Dover and Aberdeen.

Crosby has been fighting to keep its station, and recently
a cross-party transport select committee has suggested that the proposal could have devastating and deadly consequences on the Mersey coastline.

While there are many being made 'at risk' in these times, from what you can gather, most dont leave lives at risk.

Been trying to clean up my harddrive, this one shows the station behind the car park at Burbo bank and the comms tower, set against the mile marker on the beach.


And once again I got through that without mentioning my Entry in the Manfrotto comp :)

Lamborghini abstraction

Lamborghini abstraction, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

There were some nice cars in Liverpool this weekend. They were doing rides around the city for charity.

Amongst others Porsche, Lamborghini, TVR, Audi, Aston were all nicely represented, the smell of petrol and the beautiful sound of engines, fab stuff.


And once again I got through that without mentioning my Entry in the Manfrotto comp :)

Greenbelt conservation or progress?, Crosby

Greenbelt conservation or progress?, Crosby, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

Conservation or progress?

I’m lucky enough to live in a conservation area, there’s some nice large old houses and its all rather peaceful.

In between our conservation area and the historic Little Crosby, are public footpaths crossing green belt land, Crosby hall and fields of green.

One of Sefton councils ideas for its strategic housing plan, is to build more than 200 houses on this green belt land.

People that are within 50 metres of the ‘site’ have been given letters, but most of the walkers and people in the area are unlikely to be aware of what is being considered.

Currently under review is the Seftons core strategy for housing. Apparently the population since 1981 has fallen by 26,800 people, while 14,000 more homes being built. Current vacant dwelling rate is 4.6 and there are swathes of houses waiting to be demolished to make way for new property.

Despite lack of demand and current vacant stock, future requirements are due to the trend of smaller households.

Personally I don’t think it could possible to keep the walks and the character, and it is bound to upset the rich wildlife we have, I remember the first morning that we spent in our house, when a Red Squirrel was literally knocking on our bedroom window, other wildlife we have here include Bats and Pheasants.

Assuming these properties are required, I imagine they need to go somewhere, question is a green belt site in historic setting, between two conservation areas the place to put them...


Anyway, in shot is a snap from the field that is proposed to become a housing estate, the watercolour look to this is purely from dof on my nice lens, as the camera saw it, not photoshop.

And I got through that without mentioning my Entry in the Manfrotto comp :)



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Tyre, Crosby

Tyre, Crosby, a photo by Ianmoran1970 on Flickr.

Some have 'liked' already, thank you but.. I put an image into the manfrotto comp imagine more...

If you can spare the time, would be great if you could like this for me...

My Entry in the Manfrotto comp


Anyway, in shot, was a tire being exposed by a receding tide, did a HTTT shot a while back, don’t know if this is the same tyre?.. could be... anyway looked good in the light, I took a string of shots, well you always do right?... various compositions, this I felt with the crop comp added a touch more mystery lol..