Crosby Beach

[ChrisLumix]

A few from over the years (a mix of digitised slides, scanned 35mm prints, and shots from a digicam).

 

This is a scan of a print of a slide, so the quality is not that:

 

 

This is a scan of a colour print so not quite so poor:

 

 

The next two are digicam shots, but compressed to upload:

 

 

[KateW]

A good set. I particularly like the last two.

[Leon]

no3 for me

[ChrisLumix]

Thanks for that! My own personal favourite is the minimalist first, but it was shot through glass (a car window? train?) and sadly it shows.

[Heather]

i agree with you Chris, its my favourite too except for that distracting line showing on the left hand side, i wonder if you could do anything to get rid of that 

[Korky]

The last one does it for me - OK, it could do with a bit more sky stuff, but the four figures traipsing along as if disappointed with the iron men are great.

 

Could they be four Scousers who feel that 'Another Place' is a right waste of bloody time and wish they'd watched the match on telly?

 

Korky

[NannyFerret]

I particularly like the silhouette on the third one. 

[ChrisLumix]

Heather - thanks, I'm now motivated to go into Photoshop and do something a bit complicated (not sure how yet!) to get rid of that line. I wouldn't crop it out though, I like the balance of the composition too much.
 
 
Korky -  You might be right, though I'm not even watching today's debacle on MOTD2, it would be too dispiriting  
I might go into Photoshop, mask off the non-sky and see if I can bring out more detail.

 
Thanks Tina; it's part of the same series as the Iron Men with the wind turbines against the light that I posted many weeks (you've forgotten by now )

[David]

Great set Chris, I like the three figures in #3 (3rd one isn't human, some kind of buoy?) it takes your eye in a curve into the distance. Very well composed

[ChrisLumix]

Great set Chris, I like the three figures in #3 (3rd one isn't human, some kind of buoy?) it takes your eye in a curve into the distance. Very well composed

 

Thanks David - yes, the furthest object is a buoy, the other two are Gormley men. Not a human being in sight which adds to the sense of desolation (for me).

[David]

Thanks David - yes, the furthest object is a buoy, the other two are Gormley men. Not a human being in sight which adds to the sense of desolation (for me).

 

I hadn't heard of Gormley men till now lol

[ChrisLumix]

I hadn't heard of Gormley men till now lol

 

I think the correct term is 'Iron Men'? Not sure.

[David]

Haven't heard of Iron Men either...oh what a sheltered life I have led lol

[ChrisLumix]

Haven't heard of Iron Men either...oh what a sheltered life I have led lol

 

But you've heard of the Angel of the North perhaps? That was also Gormley.

[David]

Ahhhh now you're talking haha. Although I didn't know it was Gormley...I take it he was the artist? My general knowledge just increased a notch

[fuzzyedges]

Ahhhh now you're talking haha. Although I didn't know it was Gormley...I take it he was the artist? My general knowledge just increased a notch

The correct term is Gormley iron men statues

This is because they are a cast iron replica of the artists own body

Anthony Gormley has a thing about his own body I suspect

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=antony+gormley+sculptures&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=9vLBUr6FFor07AaRsoD4Bw&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1440&bih=802

[ChrisLumix]

The correct term is Gormley iron men statues

This is because they are a cast iron replica of the artists own body

Anthony Gormley has a thing about his own body I suspect

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=antony+gormley+sculptures&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=9vLBUr6FFor07AaRsoD4Bw&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1440&bih=802

 

Thanks for that fuzzy - someone once posted a link to Gormley's general work and it's pretty awesome. I'd post a link but it's getting late and still several topics to catch up with.

[David]

It has been really busy in here over the last couple of days

[fuzzyedges]

This is the off season wait while the sun shines and its warm

[David]

I can't wait

[Jon]

Aye, the angel is modeled on him too, from what I remember

 

Do like number 3, but there is something about the first one - be interested to see it without the reflection(?) although its sometimes things like that that make the shot

[ChrisLumix]

Aye, the angel is modeled on him too, from what I remember

 

Do like number 3, but there is something about the first one - be interested to see it without the reflection(?) although its sometimes things like that that make the shot

 

I'm going to see what I can do in CS2 though it won't be a simple job I don't think (not like cloning out a lamp-post!)

 

Gormley is now SIR Anthony Gormley in the NY Honours according to the news - though they featured a picture of his Angel of the North and not his Crosby Iron Men. 

[fuzzyedges]

 

 

Gormley is now SIR Anthony Gormley in the NY Honours according to the news - though they featured a picture of his Angel of the North and not his Crosby Iron Men. 

 

I would have to look on gold or drama for who were the rest  that were honoured

I mean Jessica Fletcher and Margo its like all our yesterdays