Saturday was fine and sunny – just the right conditions to go to Liverpool and complete a list of images I wanted to shoot with a nice sunset!
Never got to take all the images as the last mile of the journey to Pier Head was shrouded in thick freezing mist!
Waste not – want not!
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Posted in Architecture, General photography, Liverpool, Night photography, Photography, Uncategorized
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Tagged kings dock, Liverpool, liverpool 1, liverpool one, misty, night, pierhead, shops
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Letterpool is a project undertaken by several photographers based in the Merseyside area together with Switchmedia who produced the book which is based on typography used throughout the city of Liverpool over the ages.
The book won a Gold Award in the Fresh Creative Awards 2009 for best use of Typography
A sample of my images used in the book…
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Posted in Black & White, Colour, General photography, Liverpool, Monochrome, Photography, Publications, art
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Tagged book merseyside, dave ellison, David Ellison, David Ellison Photography, design, fonts, heritage, letterpool, Liverpool, signs, signwriting, typography
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Once part of Lancashire and a centre of heavy chemical production, Widnes now belongs in Cheshire and most of the heavy industry is gone. Parking in Widnes is plentiful and FREE! The town itself is being regenerated slowly with new factory/ warehouses, megastores and a new shopping precinct.
Backstreets and Backbeats!
Back doors, money shop and Jay in The Music Stall in Widnes market!
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Tagged closure, money shop, moneylenders, photographs, Photography, recession, red door, signs, the music stall, widnes, widnes market
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Madryn Street
Madryn Street is situated in the Welsh Streets area of Toxteth in Liverpool, close to Priincess Drive / Sefton Park and is one of the streets where Ringo Starr lived as a child.
The area is due for redevelopment and the time of taking this image, there were very few inhabitants left – most homes were vacated!
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Tagged home, Liverpool, Madryn Street, Photography, ringo starr, toned, welsh streets
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I visited North Wales recently, back to the Llanberis Pass and Blaen y Nant where I lived during the 1960’s. The only place that ever felt like home even though it had no electricity, no gas or running water – other than the stream which cascaded off Yr Wyddfa ( Snowdon ), down through Cwm Glas and beside the cottage before flowing into Afon Nant Peris which flows from Pen y Pass to Caernarfon. It came as rather a shock to see the cottage in this state.
I often walked beside Afon Nant Peris on my way to catch the school bus in the village about a mile away – often in the torrential rain we experienced in the mountains during the 1960’s.
Salmon used to come up the river in winter and could be seen in the pools. The river level was often much higher then than it is today – many occasions the river would almost be lapping over the bridge, I had to cross to get to the road, as it thundered past – about 3 or 4 feet above its normal level.
The riverbed was like a mosaic of coloured stones and rocks.
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Tagged afon nant peris, blaen y nant, cottage, David Ellison Photography, gwynedd, home, llanberis pass, north wales, river
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The first chamber of the Queens Parlour cave on the Sandstone Trail in Cheshire.

First chamber of the queens parlour cave.
The first chamber of the queens parlour cave lit with three flashguns using coloured gels.
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Tagged Cave, colored gels, Coloured gels, David Ellison Photography, flash, flashgun, gels, queens parlour, sandstone trail, strobe, strobist
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… yet another image from the sandstone cave studio!

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Tagged Cave, Cheshire, Coloured gels, David Ellison Photography, filters, flash, flashgun, gels, lighting, Photography, strobe, strobist
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Image taken in a sandstone cave in Cheshire UK. Blue and green gelled flash each side of the camera and three flashes in the chamber behind gelled with yellow / CTO ( warm ).
The smoke was generated by lighting a small fire and putting damp leaves on it. Seemed a good idea at the time!!! Unfortunately, the cave was filled with dense smoke for about half an hour – which made life difficult!

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Tagged Cave, colored gels, Coloured gels, David Ellison Photography, flash, flashguns, gels, Photography, queens parlour, sandstone trail, smoke, strobes, strobist
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A wet afternoon in sandstone caves … flashes and coloured gels!

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Tagged Cave, David Ellison Photography, flash, gels, grim reaper, strobist
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Spirits rising from Malpas Churchyard.

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Tagged Cheshire, church, David Ellison Photography, Digital Manipulation, reincarnation, spirits
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