SYMMETRY has been used to create beautiful and disturbing images of Liverpool’s past and its confident present.

However, the Flickr users who contributed to the Daily Post’s online gallery this week often only took their shots after despairing of their original goal.

Martin Waters, who contributes as The Northshore, took his grainy image at St George’s Hall recalling a grave past.

The lighting and texture is redolent of Steven King’s prison saga Green Mile.

But originally he had gone to snap the hall in its grand finery.

He said: “I’d never been down in the cells before so it was a great surprise to chance on this shot – and yes inspiration did come from the Green Mile.

“I tried a couple of quick angles shot wise. The first attempt with the camera on the floor was too low and this second attempt had me lying full stretch to get it at the level I really wanted.

“I don’t know how many people would recognise the actual place from this shot, hopefully I’ve made them think what it would have been like when it was an active holding area for prisoners.”

Jim McLeod, better known to fellow Flickr users as Baz Baziah, created a very different impression with his brightly lit waterfront bridge.

But the process he went through to get the shot was remarkably similar.

He had headed down to the water front with the intention of taking some shots of HMS Tyne, but was turned away.

“Turning my back on the vessel I decided to return back to the city via the rear of the Malmason – perhaps I could get some shots of that?” Mr McLeod recalls.

He adds: “Then this bridge appeared. The last time I saw it, it was laying rejected on a pile of rubble close to the canal works.

“Now it was in place and looking like a huge whale spine and rib cage. It had to be photographed. The sun was almost perfect and the sky was for once blue, so I set to it. I took several shots all from different angles and perspectives but this was the one that made the whole trip worth while.”

All the pictures can be viewed at www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/ flickr and add your own at www. flickr.com/groups/ liverpooldailypost08.