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SOME photographs come about almost by accident, according to the photographers using the Daily Post’s online photosharing site.
Flickr user Mr Grimesdale, also known as Steve Wallace, a Kirkby-based snapper, uploaded a eye-popping sunset shot this week.
Deep crimson through to purple penetrate the orange sundown in his photograph.
But the subject of his composition was just a friend out taking pictures in Wirral one wintry night.
Mr Wallace said: “There’s a group of us that meet up and we went to New Brighton Lighthouse for this one. It was freezing.
“The level of colour in the shot is straight out of the camera and hasn’t been tweaked at all.
“It was an ordinary camera, too, but I think the rocks help make the picture.”
The photograph ends up looking like a mountain summit and with the sunset dramatising the impression.
Meanwhile, another Flickr regular Lee Carus’s latest shot relies on the other end of the colour spectrum.
The surreal blues are the result of using a favourite lens.
He said: “The 900 lens gets a tiny bit soft at the edges. It's not the fastest lens out there at 4.5 but then again I didn't get it for speed or low light conditions.
“I certainly wasn't planning to take an action shot with this but as I saw the cyclist approaching, I quickly swivelled 180 degrees, metered the light and waited for the cyclist to drive past me.
“I ran out 5 shots in a second and chose this the second as it framed the cyclist nicely.
“Whilst it was a bright day it was extremely cold so for many parts of the walk down the path on Crosby beach it was really quiet. I processed the image to try to give it a slightly surreal feel to compliment the dunes and dramatic sky which was developing to the left.”
The Northshore’s Martin Waters’s shot, however, is very deliberate. He has managed to morph Jury’s Inn, on the Kings Dock, into the prow of a ship.
