Crosby Beach

There’s just something about sandy beaches and coastal shores that inspires me.

Perhaps it is the ever-changing light, the effects of the tide as it rises and falls, constantly changing, shifting the sand, sculpting the ground and the line between sea and land. It’s never quite the same, twice.

Human interventions in such places provide further scope to capture their influence and interactions with the course of nature.

Crosby Beach is popular, especially since the Antony Gormley installation, “Another Place” is spread out along the coast. I published a previous article dedicated to that. There is a hint of his artworks in these images but these are more about the beach.

Such innocent looking sand. So like many other beaches but this one has treacherous sinking-sands and extreme caution is required to go very far from the promenade and sea wall. It wasn’t too serious but I could feel how soft some of was in places as I walked along and could envisage how quickly a dangerous situation could develop out of apparently nothing.

I’ve never been to Liverpool, perhaps I should have made the extra effort since I was so close, but I can say that I’ve seen some of its famous landmarks at a distance from this beach. This image shows Liverpool Cathedral and some of the other famous buildings that dominate its skyline.

A red flag, spells danger and a warning.

The last image in this series includes one of Antony Gormley’s distant figures.

These photographs were taken with a Fujifilm S5 DSLR camera.

All the photographs were taken by Scottish photographer Norman Young and are copyright ©. Please respect copyright.

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