David L Baker Photography

Photography with an occasional poem

Tag: North Yorkshire

  • 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.

  • Steam

    When you think of a steam engine, what comes to mind? Steam, and a whistle? Glad you said that, because that is precisely what you have here. Another view of the steam shed at Grosmont in the Yorkshire Dales,

  • Beach Walk

    Clean air and warm sun,
    A walk along the tide line.
    Picnic chair for one.

    A slight application of background blur to this image of a family walking the beach at Filey, North Yorkshire. Only the one chair, but I am guessing that she who carries it sits on it.

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  • Pillbox

    Ancient defences
    Defeated by erosion.
    Broken in the sand

    Cayton Bay in North Yorkshire is almost uniquely home to several pill boxes. Some are still on the cliff, some crashed and broken on the sandy beach, and a couple precariously balanced waiting for the last few feet of cliff erosion to send them crashing down. They were built as potential sea defences in WW2, to protect the coast from potential invaders.

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