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Withernsea Pier Towers

Had a little time to kill in Withernsea so had a trip out with my camera. So got some shots of the pier towers. The pier towers where built 1875 and had to be later demolished after a coal barge collided with it. The towers are the only part that survives. There is also a memorial  bench built by Russ Coleman.

The images where edited in Lightroom and Photomatix, they where shot with 3 exposures with a stop +/- on each one.

New Year, Old thinking

1/365 Day one. Second year of 365 project, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

In 2010 I set myself 10 things that I wanted to achieve in 2010. I feel that I only had a limited success with these. Two things in the last year have had a huge personal impact on my the birth of my granddaughter and the death of my mother. It has been one of the best and worst years I have known.
But with the new year here the past is the past and the future is the untraveled road. So here is my road map for 2011.

1 take more time for my family. Need a family holiday for all 6 of us this year. Get more photos of the kids they seem to be growing up at an alarming rate.

2 lose some weight and get fit. No more take ways and eating crappy food. Have loads of cook books that never get used. So knock the dust off them and get cooking.

3 Build up the wedding side of my business, this part of the photography I have had the greatest buzz over the last year. Also want to do more portrait shoots but need a studio.

4 Still not climbed Scar Fell Pike yet.

5 Want to get on the open water and get a sailing lesson.

6 Cover all of the British Ladies and girls trails championships. Want to be there when my friends daughter gets her podium place. Good luck Simone for '11

7 Redo website. And keep it up to date.

8 do more courses. Either a business course or a degree. Still not made my mind up which.

9 become more active in the gig scene within Hull. Have built some good contacts and some very talented from Hull. I want to become part of the process of the becoming discovered.

10 use my time more productively.

11 again last on the list but the most important. BE HAPPY!!

Rocky Road, 1st post in a while

Been quite on the blog and photography. Due to the snow had a late delivery of a new 2tb hard drive. In 20 years of using pc's I have now had 2 hard drives fail, both 1tb Samsungs. Will never use Samsung again.
Todays photo is a little late coming. Had a go at making some Christmas rocky road using the Nigella Lawson recipe. Click here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/christmasrockyroad_90624
Think they came out quite well.

Keyingham a village under snow.

My car has been stuck on the drive the last couple of days due to the snow. Luckily it was on the drive and not under the car port. This is now in pieces on my drive. I think the the foot of snow that fell overnight had not helped. Every one of the steel beams had bent under the weight. As it fell it has pulled off several pieces of guttering, this has lead to the formation of large icicles over our front door.
So I decided to have a wander around my village of Keyingham to see how the snow had changed things. It was nice to see people pulling as a community and clearing snow from each others drives and paths.