Skyline sunset, Isle of Man

                          Dark skies at dusk


The setting sun over urban Ramsey skyline, residential apartments.  Queen's Promenade looking towards St Paul's Square. 


Jane Hards Photography


Image part of Skywatch, Nikon D7000

Christmas lights......

                               ........in summer


Taken during the street repairs and regeneration of Parliament Street, what appears to be Christmas lights zig zagging across the night sky. However this is the height of summer.  Unique urban street lighting, or someone forgot to take them down. Fortunately the street repairs have at least been completed. 

Daybreak, Ballure Road

                Before even the sun rises, I'm up

Not often you can stand in the middle of the road to take a photo, but before sunrise you can. Absolutely no traffic. Ballure Road is the road leads out of Ramsey, towards, Maughold, and eventually onto the Isle of Man Capital, Douglas. You can see by the chimney pots, this is a residential area. Behind those chimney pots lies, the beach. That's where I was heading to capture the sunrise. On the left hand side you can see silhouetted scaffolding where locals flats/apartments are having a spot of renovation and building work. From those flats you get a fantastic coastal view straight onto both  beaches. Yes we have two, as the harbour inlet separates them, unless the tide is out far enough to have one continuous walk round beach. The view before sunrise is often more intense than sunrise itself.

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Kings Court, Ramsey, Isle of Man

                        Ugly building, pretty sky


Kings Court, the ugliest building in Ramsey, and the tallest is residential accommodation. This is as urban and downtown as it gets here. Our high rises are not exactly skyscrapers, but we don't want too many skyscrapers spoiling the view anyway. You do however get a pretty panoramic view of the beach though from the higher flats/apartments. Image taken from the beach looking back towards the town and over the separating sea wall. 


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MY WORLD...... IS A LOAD OF RUBBISH!

Welcome to My world of Rubbish!

Cone Alone!

Trolleycide!

Outboard Motors do not belong in a Nature Reserve!


Now this is real photography!

This is how some idiots choose to treat the island, and these are the images others haven't the guts to show. Get your act together everyone. Let's not have the usual clean of the areas that are only visible to the tourists, but all of it. All I have to say today. You have seen how good the island can look on my blog, but this crap is really p*****g me off when I walk through the nature reserve, a haven for wildlife. This is not the worst. You wouldn't want to see some of the crap and I mean that literally there. Isle of Man Government - it's not just the visable bits that needs a makeover.


I know it looks like an arty social study in the urban landscape staged images, but no for real archive and new and a disgrace don't you think?

I hope your area is a lot cleaner than this.