Morecambe Bay Nobbies

Morecambe Slipway, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

Nobbies are Morecambe Bay shrimp boats, some of which were built by Crossfields boatyard in Arnside. These two are moored off the Lifeboat slipway in Morecambe and I could have walked out to them if I had been wearing boots and if I had been able to overcome my natural reluctance to wander around the sands of Morecambe Bay at low tide. So instead I photographed them from afar and included the jetty, hopefully leading the eye towards them.
Earlier this afternoon I was at Glasson Dock trying out a graduated ND filter. I took a number of landscape format shots then some portrait formats. However, I forgot to turn the filter, so I now have a fine selection of photographs of Glasson Dock in which the left half of the shot is one stop under exposed.
I might be fairly useless with filters, but at least I'm not called a 'Nobby'.
Not often anyway.

High Water Springs

Kent Estuary from Ashmeadow, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

An unusually high tide in Arnside this afternoon, combined with a cloudy sky and bright sunshine made for some of the best conditions for photography so far this year. So I am not sure why I was able to take 62 of the most ordinary, lifeless, dull, boring and unispired photographs I have ever shot.
This one is probably the pick of the bunch, or it might be the photograph I took of the footbridge in Arnside Station, for a reason that now escapes me. But neither of them, nor any of the other 60 had any merit at all.
It's not that I think I'm so good that I should be able to take worthwhile photographs every day. On the contrary, I am often surprised by the quality that some of my photographs seem to achieve despite my lack of ability. But the conditions today were so good, and my output was so not good that I am inclined to think that I may be having a mid life crisis.
I'll be changing my Land Rover for a cabriolet and using skin care products next.

A Lot of Rocks and a Lighthouse

Lune Estuary, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

I was contacted this week by a resident of Sunderland Point to tell me that some of my captions on Flickr were innaccurate. He pointed out that (amongst other errors) I had referred to a boat as a 'trawler' when it was, in fact, an ex-pleasure boat, and that I had called a building a 'Pilot's Cottage' when it had been used as an Inn.
He also gave me the benefit of some of his intimate knowledge of the personalities and families that lived and worked in the area. His comments were both fascinating, and a reminder of how a few words under a photograph can either inform or misinform, and add to or subtract from, the meaning of it.
All of which has shaken my confidence about captioning photographs to the extent that I am now going to confine myself to stating facts that I can prove beyond reasonable doubt.
Hence the caption above.
They may well, technically, be stones rather than rocks, but I am hoping to be allowed a little leeway.