Today a journey which should have started about 9am, and be done by 3pm, started at 11:30am & ended a little after 7pm.
The intended version of the trip would have had a couple of pleasant stops where some nice pics of local scenery could have been taken.
Instead, we ended up crawling through traffic caused by accidents and breakdowns which an earlier start would have missed.
C'est la vie, as they say.
So I ended up with limited opportunity for photography. Indeed, by the time I had a little time myself to decompress, it was just about 10pm.
We are spendimg the night in Blackpool, a north-western seaside town famed for being Blackpool.
This was one of the original resort towns, back when workers having holiday time was a new concept. Until cheap package holidays to Spain became a thing such seaside towns around Britain were the place to holiday.
Even now, it remains popular.
We are staying in a hotel a little way up from the town centre and stepping out the door and crossing the tramway I was able to take the following two photos within about thirty seconds of each other (both taken on my Samsung S22 Ultra with standard setting):
This shot looks back towards the town center and the famous Blackpool Tower, here lit up by a myriad lights which, combined with the low light, hide the towers iron lattice structure and make it appear an ephemeral structure supported by merely the idea of itself.
Turning about a hundred degrees to my right I got the following picture of the final splashes of light across the Irish sea from an already set summer sun:
I'd have cut the streetlight out from the second picture if I'd gone down a flight of steps, but felt there was enough difference between the two shots to give the idea I wanted.
Standing in the same spot a small turn left or right will bring a completely different viewpoint into perspective.
