Dungeness is one seriously weird place. It's fantastic shingle beach is one of the largest in the world, and it has two nuclear power stations with one still active. Not just that but it's beach is pebbled with abandoned boats, beech huts, narrow-gauge railway tracks and the odd house crafted from old railway carriages. Not to mention the strange concrete "listening ears" - a precursor to modern day RADAR.
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Friday, 24 February 2012
Dungeness Headland Lighthouse
Photograph Details: Nikon D7000 Focal length 18mm ISO-100 exp: 1/400 f11
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Eric Morecambe, Morecambe Bay, Lancashire
Unveiled by the Queen in 1999, the slightly larger than life-sized statue depicts Eric Morecambe in one of his characteristic poses with a pair of binoculars around his neck (he was a keen ornithologist). The statue is set against the stunning backdrop of Morecambe Bay and the Lake District hills, and people queue to have their photo taken alongside it. The statue and the arena below it are equally sensational at night, with superb lighting effects bathing the area. [Source]
Photograph Details:
Nikon D7000
Focal length 18mm
ISO-100
exp: 1/6
f22
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
The Windmill, Parbold, Lancashire
On a trip back "Oop Norf" to see my family (and baby niece for the first time) I stopped off on the way back to my parents' house from my brother's to snap this shot. With no tripod, memory cards or camera charger the photography on the trip was rather underwhelming which was such a massive shame.
The windmill sits on the Leeds-Liverpool canal, the longest canal in Northern England at 127 miles long, and it took 46 years to build (almost twice as long as I've been alive for) and at a cost of 5x the original budget! The idea for it was first proposed in 1765. The Canal Act passed in 1770 was for a route from Liverpool to Leeds via Parbold, Walton-le-Dale (just south of Preston), Colne and Skipton, with a branch from Burscough towards the River Ribble, a branch from Parbold to Wigan, a great aqueduct at Whalley and a branch from Shipley to Bradford. [Source]
I took this one with the camera propped on the door window sill of the car
Photograph Details:
Nikon D7000
Focal length 18mm
ISO-100
exp: 25 sec
f3.5
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