Distinctive colours

The peafowl bird species includes male peacocks and female peahens. You will only find the colorful peafowl feathers on the male peacocks, with peahens exhibiting more muted colors in their feathers. Peafowl are best known for the male's extravagant tail, which it displays as part of courtship, the colours within the plumage are striking. Unfortunately only one of the peacocks displayed there plumage and had quite a few of his feathers missing.

My favourite peacock has to be the shown shown below, I have never seen a peafowl which has the blue and white feathers.

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People's Choice

After placing in the Top 65 of the Snowden Mining Competition the entries have now been selected for the People's Choice Award, this is judged by the public voting online. After looking at other entries I have noticed that there are only 5 submissions that are photographed underground and two from the U.K. Please vote if you like my photograph, the link below will take you through to voting.

http://www.snowdengroup.com/PeoplesChoiceEntry.asp?CID=137&BID=612&pID=3000

The Blue Lagoon

West Pennine Moors has a number of landmarks that I will visit in the weeks to come. Recently I went to The Blue Lagoon, this is what it is named locally as, but it used to be called Ward's Reservoir and supplied water for the industrial mills nearby.

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Montage

After going through my old Art Foundation sketchbooks, I found a few montages which I produced for one of my projects. They were created by piecing individual parts of different photographs and  aligning them together perfectly. However this time I have used a collection of whole photographs from my Formby shoot to create different montages.

 

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Coastal Changes

Formby beach is an area which I visit often, on my visit last week the National Trust were giving out information on how the coastline is changing. I have researched the situation and found a report which has predicted the evolution of Formby coastline, called Coastal Defense produced by the Sefton Council. These predictions consider the effects of possible sea level rise in response to climatic changes. The diagram below predicts the changes in the future.

My photography below shows the environments which will be lost if the predictions are correct. The coastal path walks through the sand dunes will be lost, along with a number of habitats.

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West Pennine Moors

The West Pennine Moors cover an area of approximately 90 square miles of moorland and reservoirs in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England. The West Pennine Moors lie to the west of the main Pennine range. The moorland includes Withnell, Anglezarke and Rivington Moors in the extreme west, Darwen and Turton Moors, Oswaldtwistle Moors and Holcombe Moors. I recently visited the highest point which is at winter hill as I traveled up the hill I documented my journey as I went.

The first photograph shows the view from the pigeon tower which is situated on Rivington moor. I took a lot of photographs of this tower because of the unique architectural structure.

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