Skeletal Trees

As the day darkened, the bare skeletons of the silver birches reached skywards,

arms waving, their branches a black lace network against the fading light.

Everywhere in the woodland the trees seemed to be stretching their arms towards the last of the light,

tall sentinels of the forest, their white bark glowing in the dusk.

Early morning sparkle

The fragile beauty of a spider's web

revealed by the early morning sun

and surrounded by falling jewels.

Raindrops sparkle, a sudden shower

caught by the light,

on this bright autumn day.

Sunrise at 15,000 feet

A grey murky morning on take off was transformed

as we lifted above the cloud layer into this glorious sunrise.

Lenticular Clouds

A rare stack of plates or pile d'assiettes formation of lenticular clouds

seen over the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland.

Wave Watching

Early January Storms at Crosby beach.

many people were out to watch the forecast high tide

driven by storm force winds on January 3rd.

Last sunset of 2013

The last sunset of 2013 at Crosby beach.

Shortly afterwards clouds rolled in

and rain dampened spirits on New Year's Eve.

Sunset of a lifetime

This amazing sunset at Crosby beach, captured at the end of November 2013

and posted on Twitter, seemed to catch the imagination.

It has been retweeted over 150 times and led to me trending on Twitter for a while.