Ed O’Keeffe Photography

Shell Stanlow Oil Refinery

Sunday, 11th January 2009 @ 9:35 pm by Ed O'Keeffe

Shell Stanlow Oil Refinery

This is the Shell Stanlow Oil Refinery seen from same hill in the village of Ince between Helsby and Chester. Obviously I would have loved to get closer, but there were fences and trees in the way, still I do like the sky and the contrast in steam and smoke that is coming out of the chimneys. Next time I get the same lighting in this part of the world I hope to use a neutral density graduated filter to get more detail in the lower third of the frame.

Chris

Hi,

Nice photo. There's a real beauty to industrial architecture and you captured it very well in this shot.
I tried to get a few night time shots of the flare stack at the perimeter fence on the A5117 a few months back but Cheshire Police caught me in the act and moved me on.

Still, nice work.

Cheers

Chris Martell

Les Blackburn

Hi Ed,
I've recently started looking at your photos - you've got some nice ones on this site!!
I thought I'd comment on this photo, because I work at Stanlow Refinery. I think you've caught us on a bad day!! If there's smoke coming off the flare stack like on the right hand side of the above photo, it usually means that something pretty bad has happened on the refinery!! Nice photo none the less.

Cheers,
Les

blog comments powered by Disqus

to web
to email

Photos by Subject

Photos by Date

Shell Stanlow Oil Refinery