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The Colonnade (or Loggia) at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

A photograph of the overnight torrential downpour and hailstorm with thunder and lightning from the bank holiday weekend just gone. You can see a few of the hailstones bouncing off the top of the street light as bright dashes flying away from it.

I think this is the first time DarkDwarf and I have independantly taken photographs of the same thing for our blogs. Here is a shot of the Port of Liverpool Building reflected in Mann Island Development I took a couple of weeks ago but fell through the cracks of being busy doing other things.  Scarily we had almost the same title.

On the opposite side of North John Street from the Royal Insurance Building is one of the ventilation shafts for the Mersey Road Tunnel. It’s not as grand an affair as the Georges Dock Ventilation Tower and Central Station with its statues and other decoration but it does merit Grade II listing. It’s quite a hard structure to get a photograph of because its wide but also very tall – at 60m its the 17th equal tallest structure in Liverpool. Hidden away high above the street, along the top of the bulk of the building, below the shaft itself is a thin, art deco decoration with a horse’s head at each end.  Yet another example of the treasures hidden in Liverpool’s architecture if you look up from the street sometimes.

Last night I added a page for some Vue stuff from my blog to make it easier to find. Tonight I’ve pulled some of my photographs together into galleries in my pictures section so they’re not lost in a sea of over a thousand posts.

Tree in Sefton Park, Liverpool

With sub-zero temperatures all week I’ve not taken my camera out.  So here’s one I made (months) earlier: a simple photograph of a tree in Sefton Park Liverpool.

On my visit to London on the way to Dragonmeet I went into the British Museum to have a look at the Great Court Roof. The roof was designed by Foster and Partners its an iconic piece of recent architecture. This picture is of part of it around an hour before sunset catching the low, late November sun. Since I wanted to get to my hotel before it got too late and I’d already spent too long in both the The Cartoon Museum and The Wellcome Trust exhibition I didn’t have time to really look at anything else in the museum. Still thats something I can correct another time.

Over the last few days a giant column has risen from Chavasse Park in Liverpool One. Tonight the ride that goes up it swung into action for the first time. We can just hear the screams from our office. It seemed like a good subject for having a go at some night photography. This is probably not the best of the shots I took as the exposures a bit long but it had more of a sense of movement than the ones with less exposure.