Morecambe in Summer

Morecambe Fisherman's Tractor, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

Back to work tomorrow, so I set aside my last day of freedom to go out and take some photographs. High tide was at about 3.00 pm, so Sunderland Point was out of the question. The Lakes seemed a good idea, but the weather was dull, overcast, with rain in the air, and showed no signs of recovering, and if it is raining in Arnside, it will be RAINING in the Lakes. So where better than sunny Morecambe, home of the £1.50 jug of tea and the misspelt stick of rock.
The rain finally stopped as I parked at the Lifeboat station, and I took a set of pictures of the slipway and the sailing club.
Back at home I post processed in Photomatix, then opened this shot in Photoshop and cloned out the trailer that was attached to the tractor.
I had always wanted to have a go at selective colour, so I created a new layer, desaturated it then reversed the selection and painted the colour back in to the tractor. I rather like the result, and it gives more of a sense of how dull and miserable it was this afternoon.