We didn’t go in to the Tab pub for a drink when we were exploring Eastham at the weekend, but instead opted for an ice cream. Next time I will have to make more of an effort to go inside for a quick one. I am sure I will be returning to Eastham at some point because when I went the lighting was great for certain subjects, but for the photo looking over the river to Liverpool it was too overcast. I need to return on a brighter day with a longer lens.

Last weekend Kay and I went for a drive around Merseyside and the Wirral area. We came across Eastham and this photo shows the view from the bank of the River Mersey at Eastham looking down the river towards the city centre of Liverpool. As you can see the weather and lighting conditions were far from ideal, but I thought it was an interesting perspective of the city of Liverpool and how the Liverpool skyline has changed so much over the last few years.

This is Liverpool One’s Big Wheel and Ferris Wheel’s seem to have become more fashionable for big cities since the Millennium Wheel in London. I didn’t go on this wheel but I did go to Liverpool just to get a picture of it at night; and as regular readers will know I failed. Weather permitting I aim to return this coming Sunday for round two of night photography around the city centre of Liverpool.

People following me on Facebook may have already seen a very similar image to the above, because I have started to spread content out into other websites such as Facebook. This is an attempt to connect with my readers and sharing more content, but at the same time hopefully getting more people to see my life’s work. You wouldn’t believe the looks I get when I let that big DSLR camera hang from my neck, whilst I take a quick photo with my iPhone. I do this so I can instantly upload what I am looking at and share it with you there and then. Obviously the better, post processed, DSLR photos get published here. However, I am finding more and more that using other websites such as Flickr and Facebook helps spread my photography.

At the beginning of the month I walked around Liverpool with Kay, Mark and Rachel looking to photograph the pengiun statues. However I really wanted to try to get some good night shots of the city centre. So just before Christmas I got the train back on my own with my tripod in an attempt to do just that. I have learnt that it is always worthwhile going an hour or two early to the location to walk around and hunt out places to stand in order to capture what I wish. Case in point with the above photo of One Park West apartment buildings. My aim was to come back a few hours later when it was dark to repeat the above photo. However, the night before I had left my gloves in the boot of my car (big mistake), because after sitting on a bench where this photo was taken from I reached into my pockets to put my gloves on, only to realise that they were damp. And damp gloves in freezing temperatures are not warm. After half an hour I couldn’t operate my camera or tripod with or without gloves and my hands had turned a strange colour. So I headed home very disappointed. I will return better prepared next time!