Christmas at the Dock

 Here's hoping that everyone has had a good Christmas and is looking forward to a happy and successful 2023.

These shots are along the colonnades at Liverpool's Albert Dock (once home to Granada TV studio and the famous floating weather map). Tate Liverpool is also here now along with the Maritime Museum, shops, cafes and bars. Usually it is very busy along here but on a frozen morning, midweek in December there were few people around and it had quite a calm atmosphere.

Looking for something special

 I don't do a lot of street photography but it is something I intend to do more of and with today being Christmas Eve I thought it was appropriate to share these few images of people doing their last minute shopping, or window shopping perhaps.

The first image was shot from above and the subject was unaware that I was taking his picture but in the next one he was and in the third image also the guy looking at watches also knew I was taking the shot. It can be a little unnerving taking pictures of random people but fortunately on this occasion no one seemed to mind.

Christmas Sparkle

This evening I decided to try something different photographing my Christmas tree lights through a crystal vase.

The vase itself was really heavy so it was a bit tricky to hold it steady as well as using my camera. I think the different effects look really good as the lights went through their cycle of fading on and off and as the caught the ridges of the vase.

Tomorrow I will share a few more shots some using a different glass that I will say more about tomorrow.