When the builders stop

As more and more construction sites are slowing down and in some cases stopping, the partly built land left behind becomes a desolate waste waiting for the decision to start again. In one site over 20 acres of turned land holds broken rubble and grit like a long and wide scar anticipating the revival of an economic turnaround. The land taken, a solitary tree left standing - what remains in limbo is recreationally paralysed.

Nestea Beach Volleyball - Blackpool

Had a couple of days shooting this with press access. Great time sport watching and always good fun trying to shoot something different or push yourself to try different things.
Shot on manual - exposure taken before each game and worked around as the light changed. Most shot with a 70-300mm Sigma I picked up a while back which isn't the best lens in the bag but gives decent enough results.

People watching

Been putting together a number of prints for sale and also some large exhibition prints for hopefully something that may happen soon. These few don't fit in with anything as yet but there's probably something here to follow up.

Week off so camera happy

Legoland last week and out and about this week - New Brighton , Malham Tarn , and Liverpool. Plenty yet to upload and just got back the colour shots from Windsor.

Legoland Windsor

Great place as long as you dont have an aversion for all things tetris like. Loads of stuff - loads of queues - but you've got to love the miniland with faithful replicas of worldwide landmarks and places in the UK you never knew even existed in real life bricks and mortar not the plastic stuff with nipples on.
These are from the Holga- colour films gone to be processed - post more when can.

Preston PAD Gallery

Visited the preview evening for this new gallery / shop earlier this evening. I'm going to try and get some prints on the wall but at the moment the space is full of images and the emotions of Preston. Paint, ink, collage and photographic, there is certainly a healthy artist's community in the locale looking at the stuff on display.
Great work putting it all together - I regret missing the deadline as some of the landscapes would have fitted in well with other images on display but hopefully I can do something once this show runs its course. Hope they sell well.

Images on show at Fulwood Library, Preston

11 images from my Under a different light series and other prints in a similar vein are on permanent show. The library is on Garstang Road, Fulwood in Preston.
All framed and sorted yesterday so looking forward to seeing the response.

Off the back of this, I'm approaching others within the area.