For twenty years of my life I lived within two miles of the Lancashire coast. It was a time when I relished photographing the shoreline, the sea and the skies above it, and appreciated how the weather could transform very familiar photographic scenes. The beach at Lytham always had inshore fishing boats, tractors and buoys, and the view always had something of both the sea and an estuary about it. In this photograph I had my camera turned seawards, away from where the River Ribble enters the Irish Sea, because the sunbeams and showers off the coast made such compelling subjects.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Olympus E-300 2005
