Your images of 2008 are catching the eye on our website

Jan 28 2008 by David Higgerson, Liverpool Daily Post

THE works to make the Rocket entrance to Liverpool more attractive appears to be paying off – if pictures to the Liverpool Daily Post’s Flickr photo group are anything to go by.

Among the most eye-catching images sent in to our photo-sharing group were several by Wirral-based Flickr user ‘Abhorsen’ who captured the purple lighting at its best ... after dark.

His image encapsulated the sort of pictures we hope to collect in our photo-sharing group – pictures of how you’re seeing Liverpool during Capital of Culture year.

More than 800 photos have now been posted on the group in just weeks.

Among the organisations to have submitted photos so far was BBC Radio Five Live, which dropped in photos of its recent trip to Liverpool ahead of the culture year launch at the start of the month.

And National Museums Liverpool gave a tantalising taste of the work currently taking place as staff carefully move the stunning new portrait of Liverpool, by artist Ben Johnson, into position.

It will be unveiled later this week, but NML’s picture shows how it takes at least six people to make sure it safely makes it up the stairs at The Walker.

Pictures continue to flood in from opening weekend, and include UrbanCanvas 08’s stunning shot of fireworks lighting up St George’s Plateau.

And finally, one of the shots which most caught Daily Post picture editor Richard Williams’s eye was one of two men drinking in Hope Street’s Philharmonic pub, by Paddypix.

You can post any pictures of Liverpool in 08 at www.flickr.com/groups/liverpooldailypost08 or email them to makethenews@dailypost.co.uk