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Conservation or progress?

I’m lucky enough to live in a conservation area, there’s some nice large old houses and its all rather peaceful.

In between our conservation area and the historic Little Crosby, are public footpaths crossing green belt land, Crosby hall and fields of green.

One of Sefton councils ideas for its strategic housing plan, is to build more than 200 houses on this green belt land.

People that are within 50 metres of the ‘site’ have been given letters, but most of the walkers and people in the area are unlikely to be aware of what is being considered.

Currently under review is the Seftons core strategy for housing. Apparently the population since 1981 has fallen by 26,800 people, while 14,000 more homes being built.  Current vacant dwelling rate is 4.6 and there are swathes of houses waiting to be demolished to make way for new property.

Despite lack of demand and current vacant stock, future requirements are due to the trend of smaller households.

Personally I don’t think it could possible to keep the walks and the character, and it is bound to upset the rich wildlife we have, I remember the first morning that we spent in our house, when a Red Squirrel was literally knocking on our bedroom window, other wildlife we have here include Bats and Pheasants.

Assuming these properties are required, I imagine they need to go somewhere, question is a green belt site in historic setting, between two conservation areas the place to put them...

Anyway, in shot is a snap from the field that is proposed to become a housing estate, the watercolour look to this is purely from dof on my nice lens, as the camera saw it, not photoshop.

And I got through that without mentioning my Entry in the Manfrotto comp :)

Thanks for looking.

I've been interviewed. Apparently retro gaming is in. Codetapper asked me about my Amiga games.

www.codetapper.com/amiga/interviews/ian-moran/

The Amiga, was a 'proper' computer with lots of interesting hardware, which made it interesting to program. It was the first computer I programmed professionally, and helped cut my teeth in the games industry.

In shot, me a snap after getting home from work. A quick selfie.

Thanks for suffering my face.

Lines on blue.

An interview with me, if your interested...

www.codetapper.com/amiga/interviews/ian-moran/

My 7 year old son decided that he would like to go and take some pictures, wow, great, that never happens, people usually cringe when I suggest going out because it normally means the camera comes with.

So there were these horses down the road, we've fed them before, and that would make something different and possibly more interesting than the beach to shoot for him, so off we went.

Unfortunately despite seeing several horses in the distance, it seems like the road side horses had gone, so we stopped at a field  of bright yellow rape, he seemed happy enough, and the sun tends to keep things interesting.

Easter Monday shorty before it all got messy.

A bit of blur from Crosby beach.

The focus is one of the mile markers.

Hope your having a great Easter, thanks for viewing.

A 4 day weekend, and the weather is looking good, hope you dont mind me sharing a bit of colour from the beach.

Hope you have a great one!

Sun and moon diptych.

Another couple of basic shots, pretty much SOOC handheld shots, the idea was to upload 100% crop versions but the sun really demanded a wider format so, unless you can see these large I guess they are less than 50% crops as you see them on screen.

The bird in shot was probably the same as seen in the recent Subtle Waterloo sunset, I think the shot against sun makes a nice silhouette with the light bleeding through, I hope to show the full image that this was from, but unfortunately there are some composition problems.

Here's to hoping the weather smiles on you this year. Have a great day.

Thanks so much for looking.

Subtle sunset, Waterloo

A clean and fresh bit of fun from my flickr.