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  • Nominated in 10th (2017) International Colour Awards (Architecture category) <br />
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Now disused by the #RNLI the old Lizard Lifeboat House still stands, now houses the gear of the Lizard fishermen. It is gradually looking more dilapidated each time I visit but it will always stand as a reminder to me, at Britain’s most Southerly point, of a place from which the bravest men risked their lives to save the lives of hundreds and hundreds of floundering souls at this notorious peninsula. <br />
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To me, the red is not just the gunwale of a boat, but blood, an artery - a lifeline for the sailors against the darkness of their situation.
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  • Old Polpeor Lifeboat Station, Britain’s most Southerly point<br />
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I’ve visited this desolate (and derelict looking) place since I was a kid. My parents loved the Lizard peninsula and we would often go there at weekends. This is the Polpeor lifeboat station, built in 1914 and finally closed in 1961 so I’ve never been fortunate enough to have witnessed it being used to house an actual lifeboat.<br />
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What I have witnessed over the last 4 decades is it’s use by local fishermen to house their kit but I noticed this last visit a few weeks ago that the ramp has now completely broken up and it’s really only the shed itself that remains standing.<br />
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The curved boat ramp in the foreground is still used regularly by small local fishing boats as it keeps them free of the worst of the heavy seas and weather.<br />
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Nevertheless you can’t visit this place without becoming vividly aware of it’s important maritime history and the treacherous coastline in which it nestles. Even on the bleakest days I am drawn to this location and it transfers me instantly back to my Cornish childhood.
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  • Despite the gentle winds during our Cornish trip, sets of beautiful, sometimes hefty, sometimes dramatic waves, pounded the shores at almost every beach we visited. Combined with almost two weeks of brilliant sunshine, this meant that every now and then I was able to capture some truly wonderful moments in nature, like this image near Kynance
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  • On a sunny day in mid-winter, along a difficult to reach stretch of Cornish coast near the Lizard, a lone surfer takes on huge, spectacular, turquoise waves, backlit by the afternoon sunshine. At that moment in time, I wished I'd had my board with me, but then again, I remember the fear of being pushed down by these beautiful monsters.
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  • Just after dawn at Penzance waterfront. In the slowly increasing half-light, I had watched a succession of early morning wild swimmers brave the calm Atlantic waters. They told me it certainly was cold, but the rush they got from the dip had remarkable benefits to their constitution and sense of vitality. They asked me to come down the next morning in my swimming trunks to try for myself.<br />
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After bidding them good morning I wandered along the harbour wall. Looking towards the Lizard Peninsula in the distance, gentle sunlight broke through a band in the clouds and illuminated the smooth sea. As I watched the glow intensify I noticed a pod of dolphins swimming across the bay. Most of the time I could just see the curve of their backs but occasionally one of them would leave the water completely and in this image you can see just that, as gulls cried overhead. It was a rather magical and serene Sunday morning.
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  • Stormy Winter sunshine illuminates beautiful Atlantic surf powering into the incredibly dramatic Kynance Cove on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall.
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  • Despite the gentle winds during our Cornish trip, sets of beautiful, sometimes hefty, sometimes dramatic waves, pounded the shores at almost every beach we visited. Combined with almost two weeks of brilliant sunshine, this meant that every now and then I was able to capture some truly wonderful moments in nature, like this image near Kynance. I was blown away by the incredible hues of Jade, Aquamarine and Turquoise created by the low back-light
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  • Despite the gentle winds during our Cornish trip, sets of beautiful, sometimes hefty, sometimes dramatic waves, pounded the shores at almost every beach we visited. Combined with almost two weeks of brilliant sunshine, this meant that every now and then I was able to capture some truly wonderful moments in nature, like this.
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  • I really was IN this maritime play as powerful sets rolled in from the Atlantic. Just around the corner from these cliffs nestles the awesome and atmospheric open air theatre of The Minack. Here, audiences sit on stone seats hewn into the granite cliff to watch performances with the ocean as a background sound.
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  • I'd been swimming here this afternoon, where two huge seals patrolled the length of the beach looking for fish. The sea was warm and looked beautful, but whilst chatting to a fascinating, multi talented angler / film cameraman on the quayside, he confirmed my own worries about our emptying sea, not helped by destructive overfishing over years.
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  • Despite the gentle winds during our Cornish trip, sets of beautiful, sometimes hefty, sometimes dramatic waves, pounded the shores at almost every beach we visited. Combined with almost two weeks of brilliant sunshine, this meant that every now and then I was able to capture some truly wonderful moments in nature, like this.
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  • During a morning snorkel around Porthleven reef I was quite impressed by the pillows of bed rock below the sea surface, and how everything that we take for granted about our everyday lives, is quite literally built on it - ancient earth, ancient land, such temporary humanity.
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  • Morning swim at Porthleven beach out onto the reef beneath the town quay. There was hardly a drop of wind and the sea was warm and inviting. That said, the waves pushing me across the barnacled reef was sometimes unnerving, but seeing images like this was compulsive regardless.
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  • It only takes a few minutes of keen observation to start to really see the huge variation of colour tone & texture on the sea surface, revealing the endless current movements just beneath the surface.
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  • After an absolutely superb day of being in the sea, underwater photography, sea photography, harbourside cold beers, Philps Cornish pasties followed by an afternoon in baking sunshine on the beach with a cold G&T, the short amble back to our cottage was in stunningly colourful evening sunlight.
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  • A Cornish evening - Church Cove<br />
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  • Morning snorkel around Porthleven beach and onto the reef beneath the town quay. Minutes earlier a huge seal slowly swam past, disinterested in me but focussed on the fish that sheltered in the gullies of the reef.
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  • It only takes a few minutes of keen observation to start to really see the huge variation of colour tone & texture on the sea surface, revealing the endless current movements just beneath the surface.
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  • Clean surf rolling in at Kynance Cove on the Lizard Peninsula, South Cornwall.
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