ianbramham
Senior Member
I was born and grew up in Liverpool. Although I moved away from the city over 10 years ago, it always feel like going home when I revisit as I did last week.
These photos are taken in and around the "Albert Dock" which is Liverpool's oldest surviving part of the dock complex which dominates the city's waterfront. At the time it was built in the 1840s the city was very wealthy and this huge warehouse complex was highly innovative as it was the first in the world to be designed to be completely fireproof and is built out of brick, cast iron and stone rather than wood. It even survived the firebombing of Liverpool in the second world war.
Although it has a massive industrial style to its architecture the scale and materials are still very human which makes it a fascinating place to take a few photos - I hope you like them.
I have converted the photos into a series of B&W and a series with desaturated colours as I thought that the colours in the originals detracted from some of the strong shapes and images of the dock.
I really want to try and improve my photography so all comments and help would be gratefully appreciated.
1. Enormous cast iron columns support brick arched covered walkways all around the sides of the dock
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3. The dock is still home to many ships both old and new.
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6. The famous Liver building glimpsed through a gap in the dock complex.
7. Cranes- old and new; small and large. The one in the background is building a huge new shopping mall in the city centre.
8. Rainclouds forming over the city. This shot is the only one not taken in the Albert Dock as it is from the other side of the river looking back to the Liver Building, The Cunard Building and the Mersey Docks and Harbour building.
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13. "Reflections" - I turned round from the dock edge and saw this reflection in a shop window which seemed to neatly sum up Liverpool in one image - the city's industrial highpoint has long since past and it's future is now more connected to culture, shopping and of course...football.
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http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t201/ianbramham/
These photos are taken in and around the "Albert Dock" which is Liverpool's oldest surviving part of the dock complex which dominates the city's waterfront. At the time it was built in the 1840s the city was very wealthy and this huge warehouse complex was highly innovative as it was the first in the world to be designed to be completely fireproof and is built out of brick, cast iron and stone rather than wood. It even survived the firebombing of Liverpool in the second world war.
Although it has a massive industrial style to its architecture the scale and materials are still very human which makes it a fascinating place to take a few photos - I hope you like them.
I have converted the photos into a series of B&W and a series with desaturated colours as I thought that the colours in the originals detracted from some of the strong shapes and images of the dock.
I really want to try and improve my photography so all comments and help would be gratefully appreciated.
1. Enormous cast iron columns support brick arched covered walkways all around the sides of the dock
2.
3. The dock is still home to many ships both old and new.
4.
5.
6. The famous Liver building glimpsed through a gap in the dock complex.
7. Cranes- old and new; small and large. The one in the background is building a huge new shopping mall in the city centre.
8. Rainclouds forming over the city. This shot is the only one not taken in the Albert Dock as it is from the other side of the river looking back to the Liver Building, The Cunard Building and the Mersey Docks and Harbour building.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13. "Reflections" - I turned round from the dock edge and saw this reflection in a shop window which seemed to neatly sum up Liverpool in one image - the city's industrial highpoint has long since past and it's future is now more connected to culture, shopping and of course...football.
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http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t201/ianbramham/
they form the biggest group of Grade 1 listed (architecturally protected) buildings in the UK!
