William Leece looks at the latest from the Daily Post Flickr team

BUY an SLR camera and you’ll end up buying extra lenses. Maybe not as many as in the days before zooms became the norm, but buy them you will.

Wide-angle or telephoto? It depends how the mood takes you, although I suspect that many first-time SLR owners will got for the telephoto first. Its uses are that bit more obvious, and a decent telephoto doesn’t cost as much as a decent wide-angle.

Extreme wide-angles can cost serious money, but, if you're prepared to compromise on image quality, you can get the same dramatic effect by settling for a screw-on front converter for a few tens of pounds.

Alfplant2009 used a proper 8mm f/3.5 lens for his ultra-wide angle shot of Lime Street Station roof. He’s decided to live with the distortions that come with this type of lens – there are programmes available which reduce this – to produce the kind of shot that is all to difficult to envisage until you've actually tried it a few times.

Ianmoran1970 had gone the other direction, with a long lens shot of the Iron Men at Crosby that steps away from the frequent images of them looking out to sea.

He’s looked along the Iron Men towards Liverpool, and used a seriously long 300mm lens to line them up against the distant background of the Seaforth container terminal.

He reckons he can count 16 of the Iron Men, although sometimes it is difficult to work out which of the figures in the distance are metal and which are human.

The Billy Fury statue at the Pier Head is almost as popular a photographic subject as the Iron Men and the Big Wheel.

Cassini2008 has used the statue to block out the sun, allowing us to see the meteorological phenomenon of an ice halo.

They're not actually all that rare, but they can be very difficult to capture with a camera as the automatic exposure mechanism stops everything down when faced with the bright sun.

Lady Bracknell has looked towards the setting sun for her silhouette of the cast iron railings of St Nicholas Churchyard in the centre of Liverpool, while patience has paid off well for Anthony Beyga with his shot of hungry house-martin chicks waiting for their parents to come and feed them.

It was, he recalls “a rainy day and it was fun watching the mother bird swooping in and out feeding these two hungry chicks.”

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