Wyre Wreck

Wyre Wreck 5, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

Time off work has provided me with many things in the past. The chance to relax a little. The opportunity to have some time to myself, to reflect on the past year, or on my plans for the future. More importantly in recent years it has given me the time to visit places and photograph them.
I have an extensive and comprehensive list of places I want to photograph. Some of them are places I have been to before, some I have photographed in the past but many are parts of England that I think might give me an interesting shot or two, but which I have never set eyes on.
So how do places get on to my list? One way is if I see a photograph taken by someone else there that inspires me. But there is a certain danger in this, as it is surprisingly difficult not to take the same photograph oneself. Even with a different lens, different light and a whole different pair of eyes looking through the camera I have more than once unwittingly plagiarised someone else's photographic work.
And I have had it done to me. Once.
So the chance to spend a little time photographing the wrecks on the banks of the River Wyre behind Fleetwood Fish Docks was something I approached with some reservations.
There are many, many photographs of these boat remains on Flickr, Pbase and on individual websites. Perhaps the best, and the first I saw, are on David Nightingale's website www.chromasia.com .
So I was quite pleased with this shot. Not because its better than anyone else's. Just because its sufficiently different. to say something new about the place. Not a whole page of something new, nor even a paragraph. But just a couple of words.
And that, for me anyway, is enough.