Photographer Peter Carr's work

TORRENTIAL rain during the opening day of Liverpool One. Despite the rain some people remain happy. I was soaked in seconds and hiding under the brolly of some passers-by who took pity on me. But these girls didn't care.

It was a good day to be out in the rain. I knew it would make a good shot and I only had seconds to get it as they were right at the end of my camera's range. I knew that if I ran up and got in front of them that they would pose and that's not what I wanted. I wanted their honest and real reaction to the weather.

I WAS hired by the company doing the fireworks to take the photo. "Ok, excellent," I thought. It was a shame I couldn't get a press pass to the event but when they told me their plan I was happy... and scared.

"You'll be ‘on top' of the Radio City Tower. You're ok with heights?" I said I wasn't, but that the photo was worth it. It's a sort of personal motto, ethic of mine. The photo is always worth it, do what it takes and get the shot. Once the moment has gone, its gone.

FOR the past few years I've missed the really big winter storms here due to having the sniffles. So I'm glad that nature was bored and decided to give us one in the middle of summer. I went down to New Brighton knowing it would be good and I had a list of shots to get.

This was one of them. Now most people would probably use a tele-photo lens at maybe 200mm and stand clear of the waves. Where's the fun in that? 10mm, right in there.

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