Blackpool Photographs

These are in... vaguely chronological order. All 400x300 pixels and on one page to make life easier, the only exception being the montage that'll open as a link because it's huge. So, without further ado, here are all the photos I took on our day trip to Blackpool (alas, none of Cloggy's car or even Brannigans in Manchester... sorry.)

The tower, taken just outside a mobile phone shop near WHSmiths.

This was situated just outside the new ride, Bling, for some unfathomable reason, since we couldn't figure out what the heck it had to do with Dali or even clocks.

Bling is a bit like Maelstrom at Drayton Manor, for the unitiated. Where Maelstrom has seats around the arm, Bling has five arms on the main arm, each containing five seats, and does pretty much the same thing except that the main arm goes all the way around so it's upside down. The five arms move around the main arm, and the seats also swing a bit like on Ripsaw... it's sort of hard to describe, but it's absolutely horrendous, especially when you're coming back down again from being suspended at the top of the entire structure. Great view of the city, but bloody terrifying...

This was on one of the supporting legs for the ride...

Another randomly Dali-esque struture...

A sign, decreeing the structure to be a tide organ. At high tide, the pressure forces air through the pipes and it plays music... apparently.

The tide organ itself, looking up from that sign.

And again, with the sun behind it...

Vicky standing in front of the strange concrete tyre-like structures that line the beach wall. I think they've got something to do with high tide, too. Anyway, they were pretty.

A, err, stick. The photograph doesn't do justice to the way the sun was hitting it; I can assure you it was more attractive in real life.

My message to the Most Haunted LJ community, having ridden one of haunted cars on the Ghost Train. It says, "Hi MHgeeks! I RODE CLOGGY'S CAR! ~teylaminh". Yeah, I'm a dork.

Vicky's message to Andy, which says, "Andy Scott Lee Rocks". Because there were rocks, duh.

Pretty pretty pier shots. Since Brighton pier fell in the sea, I'll have to make do with Blackpool. Of course, it helped considerably that there was a frelling gorgeous sunset to set it off...

And again...

Some of the heavily rusted structure in more detail.

And once more.

This one's not as good, because I was trying to get the miniature shoreline underneath in. Well, at least I got it in the middle...

One of many sunset shots. I won't put them all.

I only put this one because I managed to not only get the windmill into the shot, but to take it just as the traffic cleared...

The sunset later that night, as it was going down. I've got an icon coming soon of the photos animated so you can see some of it in its glory.

Pretty sky, plus seagull.

Eeyore.

Dude. And people wonder why I have a slight sunset obsession?

This is when we started taking pictures for the heck of it, because everything was too pretty to forget. Consider that the majority of these were all taken in the space of about two hours. There's about fifteen pictures just of the sky that I've pasted together into a montage so you can sort of see how the sky looked, even though some of them are different shades and brightness due to the camera readjusting...

I took this (and the next one) because I was trying to sneak up on a seagull that was standing, flamigo-like, in another pool of water just to the right. Unfortunately, I wasn't stealthy enough and it flew away, but the reflection of the sky in the shoreline was worthy enough of a photo all of its own.

And this is the same place, but just look how different the colours are in the sky.

Vicky, sitting near another pretty sky reflection.

Same again, but zoomed in closer. I'm amazed by the difference in the colours reflected back in the water, just by going slightly closer in.

This is the one Vicky took of me. I have a question, though - why are there orbs all around me?! Huh? Why me?! *ahem* Anyway, yes, also quite pleased she got Random Couple on the horizon into the shot...

The North Pier when the lights were on. Or possibly the middle one; I forget.

I'm quite proud of that one. And very impressed it actually worked...

This is one of my favourites, just because the colours worked so well peeking through the framework.

Slightly blurred, but pretty nonetheless.

She'll kill me for this one. :) vicky, eating her chocolate-and-mint fudge at the coach station... Yes, taking random pictures from here on in was a last-ditch attempt to stay awake...

The road out of Blackpool taken from the top deck of the coach. Um. Yeah.

And again, though it looks like we're staring into the bowels of Hell. Which, considering how the driver sped through Liverpool on the wrong side of the road (...), is quite apt...

And that's pretty much all of them, except for this, which is the montage-y thing of the sky. (Big; be warned.) A thoroughly enjoyable day all around, really.