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St Marys Lighthouse.  Images captured 16th June 2017

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Queen Alexandra Bridge @ Sunset

Another night another location for a sunset shot straight from work. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”22″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”240″ thumbnail_height=”160″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″…

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Sunderland Fish Quay @ Sunset

After the Nice beach walk i needed to get out with the camera more. The first opportunity was as I finished work the following day a short drive to a peaceful location at Sunderland fish quay.   [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”21″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”240″ thumbnail_height=”160″ thumbnail_crop=”1″…

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Nice beach walk

On a rare midweek day off i took a short jaunt to South Shields.  Never had my camera with me it was just a short wander to pass some time and scout some ideas for taking photos.  Hoping for a early morning pretty sunrise with tide out to get on the beach for looking for the sun rise and to see the light house light up with dawn light. Also thinking the same for a late night pitch black hopefully…

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Penshaw Monument at dawn

Another early morning session with the camera. Due to the changing in seasons it wasn’t too early to get out a see another beautiful sunrise.  For days I’ve been looking at sunrise times, checking the weather and looking where I can get to that fits in around my day job. Today this all panned out to pay a quick trip to the top of Penshaw Monument, ok well not to the absolute top as it was too…

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Seaham County Durham

Recent adventures have taken me to the Seaham coast line. Not only does it have a nice beach the reclaimed land from the once coal industry at the Dawdon Colliery has become a glorious walk along the heritage coast.

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Macro Monday

Macro Monday Flikr entry 01/08/2016

Every Monday I try to enter a post into the Macro Mondays. My entry greatly depends on my free time to get an image and the theme.  Today (01/08/2016) the theme is Fill-the-Frame food. On Saturday I had some spare time so I decided to bake a cake, a pineapple upside-down cake to be precise. I was thinking the cross section on the sponge or the pineapple slice for the macro shot. After a few shots…

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Roker and River walk

A great morning walk along the river wear along to Roker lighthouse.

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Souter Seashore Safari

Took my soon on a seashore safari at the National Heritage site Souter Lighthouse today. Stupidly left his wellington boots at home so we didn’t get the opportunity to stand in the pools. We did however see some amazing things and great views. Save

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Herrington Country Park Early Walk

Herrington Country Park Early Walk

Another Early morning walk.  I love being out of the house really early in the morning before the rest of Sunderland. This morning was spent around Herrington Country Park one of the largest parks in Sunderland and overlooked by Penshaw Monument, Herrington Country Park offers walks and cycle trails, environmental sculptures. Being out so early I always hope for a chance to see some wildlife that…

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Durham Coast National Nature Reserve

A rare day off with nothing to do other than walk and take photos and relax. I had been recently informed of a small piece of beach near me at Chilton.  What drew me to heading over there was the possibility of seeing some little terns that have been nesting and rearing their young. The section of the beach where the terns are occupying is fully fenced off to protect the birds.  I had never seen…

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Snape Maltings.

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Early Morning Adventures

Good Morning! I’ve planned this for a long time now but until recently I have never been able to get the timings right for the sunrise around Roker’s Lighthouse.  I managed to get these pictures this morning after I purchased the PhotoPills app for my iPhone/iPad the app I’ll discuss later in another post when I have more time to learn about its functions and abilities. Learning the time for the…

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Beautiful start to a Tuesday morning in sunderland UK

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Mussel Shell

After a long night working I was wandering around the flat for something to do when I stumbled across a shell that was found on the beach a few weeks ago. I had meant to sit down with the shell and my camera to take a few pictures.

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Mysti interrupted the Smitten blanket photoshoot for Big Blue Elle