David L Baker Photography

Photography with an occasional poem

Tag: Colour

  • Liver

    I can almost hear the non-UK readers thinking I have gone out of my mind, and uploaded the wrong image. Looks nothing like liver. Well, it is Liverpool again, and this is the Liver building as seen from the Albert Dock. Atop the Liver building is a statue of the Liver Bird, which you will also find on the badge of Liverpool FC. As you can tell from the buildings framing the Liver building the Albert Dock area has had a lot of investment and is a really nice part of Liverpool. Oh, and it is pronounced Lie-ver, as in to lie down. And no puns about ORGANic growth at the Albert Dock, that would just be silly.

  • Redundant

    You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! I think this one came off its hinges a while ago. Is there a woodworking equivalent of “a good vet would get it on its feet again”?
    Sometimes the ordinary isn’t that ordinary at all.

  • Pano

    Flamborough Head

    Fingers crossed this looks ok on WordPress. I was looking through the photos I took when at Bempton Cliffs with the gannets and afterwards at Flamborough, when I saw three that made no sense. Then I realised they were taken in order to create a panorama, and I had never processed it. Idiot. Put together you can see the limestone cliffs, and in the distance a lighthouse. If looking on a phone it is pobably best to click to get a bigger version and then turn the phone on its side. But hey, you know best.

  • L’Amour

    Gannets at Bempton Cliffs

    I hope you are impressed that I can be bilingual? Bempton Cliffs on the Yorkshire coast is home to thousands of gannets. I would say you can’t move for them, but as they spend most of their time on the seaward side of a very tall steep cliff that is highly unlikely. Suffice to say, you can’t miss them. This is the classic pose of a mating pair making it known they are interested. Ornithology lesson over.

  • Retired

    Fishing boat at North Landing

    I have a version of this sorry-looking retired fishing boat in my gallery, but in black and white. Having reviewed it again (the weather is shocking so I have to do something…) I think that was a mistake. The colour actually adds something to the flaking paintwork I think. The image is from North Landing at Flamborough on the Yorkshire coast.

  • Relaxed

    graffitti

    Melbourne is well known for its street art, and there is a network of alleys covered in murals. As you can tell from the little guy in the yellow box, tourists and visitors are envouraged to photograph the art. You couldn’t resist this chilled group of farmyard friends, though the violin did confuse me…

  • Wall art

    Menorca street art

    Some people are not a fan, and just tagging on walls is stupid, but I really like some good wall art, or street art – however you term it. I found this cat outside a resaurant in Menorca, just minding his business. Maybe it was a marketing ploy to get potential customers to stop outside the restaurant?

  • Poppy

    Poppy

    As I have mentioned before, I struggle with flower photos, but every now and then I get something that I feel is ok. Seems a bit early, or I am losing track of the year, but the poppies are back. It is pouring down with rain and hailstones today, so I have not been out, but this is one from last year.

  • Flipper

    Kayak performing a somersault

    Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham has the National Water Sports Centre, and used to be the training home for elite canoe and kayak athletes. That discipline was moved nearer London, but the rowing is still there. Even so, there is an excellent white water course, and it is still used by elite paddlers for practice. Some stay upright, but this paddler spent her time practicing somersaults in a stopper.

  • Evening

    Evening at Clumber Park

    Just a gentle evening observation, as the sun lights up the clouds and the mist begins to rise from the lake. Sometimes you are in the right place at the right time. If you zoom in on the little temple building you can see a statue. This is one of a trail comprising twelve individually decorated models of Raymond Briggs’ Snowman at Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire.