Tag: lighthouses

Ever since I started taking photographs at night with my camera on a tripod a couple of years ago, I have wanted to get a nice long exposure of the sea moving at night. Having studied other photographs with this blurred water effect, this was the first time I got to try this technique properly. The lighthouse is lovely and sharp, but the moving water is nice and soft. There was a lot of orange light pollution coming from Merseyside behind me, which caused the white lighthouse to appear to have a pink / orange colour. However I think this looks very effective.

After Sunday morning’s shoot photography and a lovely Sunday lunch at the Duke, I decided to go bowling with Mark and Rachel. Mark had told me about a lighthouse that would be worth photographing at New Brighton and as there is a bowling alley on the seafront, I thought it might be worth a picture. When we set off it was raining, even when I parked it was still very cloudy and wet. After waiting 20 minutes the sun came out for a few moments whilst we were walking down the beach. I love the really dark clouds behind what was originally known as Perch Rock Lighthouse.