Nightscapes

Conwy Castle
Media City at Night
Trip down memory lane
Taken in the earlier hours of the morning with just a black and white tweak to give it some depth.
Leasowe Lighthouse
Leasowe Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse in Leasowe, Merseyside. The lighthouse was built in 1763 by The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company to guide shipping safely to the Port of Liverpool and is the oldest lighthouse built from bricks in the United Kingdom.[2] The lighthouse became obsolete and was closed in 1908
Bio luminescent Plankton
Another great night watching the neon blue waves in Penmon
Milky Way Cove
That Tree
The lonely tree as its referred to sits on its own in at the edge of a tidal lake looking down the snow covered valley.
Northern Lights Over Prestatyn
When technology took over...
Spotted a sorry looking red phone box at the side of the road and can't help but think these will be all but a distant memory soon. That and I wanted to try out the new camera :)
Find the Meteor(s)
After finding out there was a near full moon I wasn't that fussed about heading out but as normal headed out last minute to Perch Rock, Wirral. There are about 4 meteors in this trail but also some aircraft to put you off :) Happy hunting
Milkyway Selfie Lake Vyrnwy
Aurora
Aurora Borealis
The Old Phone
Not so mobile phone
That village and them stars.
As the milky way core sets below the horizon, the village becomes silent with only the flow from the river to be heard.
Combine down and out
After a trip to local attraction one day I came across this John Deere Combine looking sorry for its self in the distance, few miles down the road I saw a farmer and asked for his permission to take a look one night. I was hoping for clear skies but the weather apps both lied to me on this evening so 245 seconds of moving cloud with some light painting in a pitch black field made this image.
Mersey Gateway Bridge Opening
Menai Bridge
Remember them
Taken in Liverpool the statue on the left shows a powerful image of the little boy playing with a model aircraft and his mother trying to get him down, this sculpture was created by Tom Murphy for a memorial for the thousands killed in World War II in the Blitz
Caernarfon castle in Red
Lit up red for the 2017 poppy appeal
Llandudno by Night Panoramic
By 1847 the town had grown to a thousand people, served by the new church of St George, built in 1840. The great majority of the men worked in the copper mines, with others employed in fishing and subsistence agriculture. In 1848, Owen Williams, an architect and surveyor from Liverpool, presented Lord Mostyn with plans to develop the marshlands behind Llandudno Bay as a holiday resort. These were enthusiastically pursued by Lord Mostyn. The influence of the Mostyn Estate and its agents over the years was paramount in the development of Llandudno, especially after the appointment of George Felton as surveyor and architect in 1857.
Perch Rock Startrial
New Brighton Lighthouse or Perch Rock Lighthouse, is a decommissioned lighthouse situated at the confluence of the River Mersey and Liverpool Bay on an outcrop off New Brighton known locally as Perch Rock. Together with its neighbour, the Napoleonic era Fort Perch Rock, it is one of the Wirral's best known landmarks. The name comes from a Perch; a timber tripod supporting a lantern, first erected in 1683 as a crude beacon to allow shipping to pass the rock safely. As the Port of Liverpool developed in the Nineteenth Century, the perch was deemed inadequate as it required constant maintenance and only produced a limited light. Construction of the present tower began in 1827 by Tomkinson & Company using blocks of interlocking Anglesey granite using dovetail joints and marble dowels. It was designed to use many of the same construction techniques used in the building of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse 70 years earlier.[4] Modelled on the trunk of an oak tree, it is a free standing white painted tower with a red iron lantern. It is 29 m (95 ft) tall. It was first lit in 1830 and was in continuous use until decommissioned in October 1973 having been superseded by modern navigational technology.
Milky Way
Dark skies of Anglesey
Chester Eastgate & Eastgate Clock
Eastgate and Eastgate Clock in Chester, stand on the site of the original entrance to the Roman fortress of Deva Victrix. It is a prominent landmark in the city of Chester and is said to be the most photographed clock in England after Big Ben.
700 seconds of Lighthouse
700 Seconds of Penmon, Anglesey, North Wales. Penmon Lighthouse is 29m tall and was designed by James Walker and built in 1835-1838. It was his first sea-washed tower, and a prototype for his more ambitious tower on the Smalls. The Lighthouse has a stepped base designed to discourage the huge upsurge of waves that had afflicted earlier lighthouses on the site and reduce the force of the water at the bottom of the tower. Austere vertical walls, instead of the usual graceful lines of other rock towers, are probably an economy measure. The tower has a crenellated stone parapet, in preference to iron railings on the gallery, and narrows in diameter above the half-way point. These are a features used by Walker in his other lighthouse designs. The tower is distinguished by its original three black bands painted on a white background. Walker also pioneered, unsuccessfully, the use of a primitive water closet, comprising a specially designed drain exiting at the base of the tower. The stepped design of the lighthouse may have helped water exit the closet, but surges of seawater made its use difficult during heavy weather.
73 seconds of Lighthouse
The Point of Ayr Lighthouse, also known as the Talacre Lighthouse, is a grade II listed building situated on the north coast of Wales, on the Point of Ayr, near the village of Talacre.
St Cwyfan Church Under the Stars with cloud rolling in
St Cwyfan's church was in existence by 1254 and was enlarged in the 14th and 15th centuries. Unfortunately the cloud was not in our favor and it was a quick set up few shots and RTB..........until next time :)
Lymm Town Night B&W
The name, of Celtic origins, means a "place of running water" and is likely derived from an ancient stream that ran through the village centre.
Llandudno Pier
At 2,295 feet (700 m) the pier is the longest in Wales and the fifth longest in England and Wales.
The Queen's Park Suspension Bridge, Chester
The suspension bridge is the only footbridge to cross the River Dee in Chester apart from the footbridge attached to the railway bridge. It was originally built in 1852 at the instigation of Enoch Gerrard
Chester Cathedral B&W HDR
The cathedral is a Grade I listed building, and part of a heritage site that also includes the former monastic buildings to the north, which are also listed Grade I. The cathedral, typical of English cathedrals in having been modified many times, dates from between 1093 and the early 16th century, although the site itself may have been used for Christian worship since Roman times
" The stairway to......."
The milky way raises over a small church in Anglesey, North Wales
Liverpools got a big one.....
Long exposure of the Liverpool Eye next to the Echo arena
Liverpool Waterfront Pano
Liverpool waterfront taken as a panoramic image
Denbigh Castle by Moonlight
A strong full moon lights up the remains of Denbigh castle
Old Mill House
Liver building
Stars of Basingwerk Abbey
The abbey was founded in 1132 by Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, who had already brought Benedictine monks from Savigny Abbey in southern Normandy. The abbey became part of the Cistercian Order in 1147. It was a daughter house of Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire. An Earl of Chester gave the manor of West Kirby to the Abbey. The abbey had extensive links with the English county of Derbyshire. Henry II gave the monks a manor near Glossop. The Monks' Road and the Abbot's Chair in the town are a reminder of the Abbey's efforts to administer their possession. In 1290 the Abbey gained a market charter for Glossop.[1] The monks also got another charter for nearby Charlesworth in 1328. In 1157, Owain Gwynedd encamped his army at Basingwerk before facing the forces of Henry II at the Battle of Ewloe. The Welsh Prince stopped at the abbey because of its strategic importance. It blocked the route Henry II had to take to reach Twthill, Rhuddlan. In the fighting that followed, Owain Gwynedd split his army routing the English near Ewloe.
The Opening
Hunting new locations for Aurora however sometimes you stumble across things that catch your eye.
The Blacksmith
The present smithy was built in 1905 to replace the original one, which was demolished along with several other buildings in order to create space for the erection of St George's Congregational church, which stands a little further along Neston Road on the right.
Jetty to the moon
A moon lit jetty in West Kirby was all that could be snapped on a brief outing, still always good to get out when the weather allows.
Down under the bridge
It stands in a valley at the confluence of the River Glaslyn and River Colwyn. Just above the confluence of the rivers, in the centre of the village, is the old stone bridge with two arches. The River Gwynant also exists in the area; coinciding with the River Colwyn under what locals know as ‘Pont Bren’; creating the River Glaslyn. Many of the houses and hotels are built of local dark stone. To the west is Moel Hebog and its neighbours to the north and a series of hills rising to the top of Snowdon. Despite the presence of a raised mound in the village called Gelert's Grave, now a tourist attraction, there is absolutely no evidence for Gelert's existence. The "grave" mound is ascribed to the activities of a late 18th-century landlord of the Goat Hotel in Beddgelert, David Pritchard, who connected the legend to the village in order to encourage tourism
Mersey Gateway Bridge Opening
CMV Magellan Cruise Ship Docked in Liverpool along the famous waterfront
The 46,052grt Bahamian flagged Magellan with her gleaming profile, beautiful wood type decks and distinctive CMV livery is an impressive ship. She will accommodate about 1250 guests within a warm and friendly atmosphere that reflects a truly British cruise experience. Magellan is fully stabilised and air conditioned and has nine passenger decks serviced by eight lifts.
Lake Vyrnwy Star Trail
Well the skies were clear but that moon was up and bleaching alot of the sky out but had to get out either way :) Lake Vyrnwy, Wales, built in the 1880s to supply Liverpool with fresh water. It flooded the head of the Vyrnwy valley and submerged the small village of Llanwddyn. The Lake Vyrnwy Nature Reserve and Estate that surrounds the lake is jointly managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Severn Trent Water is a popular destination for ornithologists, cyclists and hikers. The reserve is designated as a national nature reserve, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Protection Area, and a Special Area of Conservation.
NLC Clouds & Bio luminescent plankton
After a nice sunny day decided on a trip out was in order to try and catch some NLC clouds and as we were watching a nice formation forming on the left of the image you can see the bio luminescent plankton glowing blue as the waves crash.
Llandudno Pier at dusk
Tenby Harbour Black & White