First up is this one, the inspiration for heading out to Heysham in the first place:

This was taken in Heysham, at St Patricks Chapel.  This is the larger group of two sets of stone graves at the Chapel.  The image is a HDR from three exposures; I played around with the conversion down to 16-bit to get a dark and moody sky.  This is essentially a homage to the image that prompted a trip with friends (Steady and Luce) to Heysham – the original being the cover of  ’The Best of Black Sabbath’ compilation – see here: Black Sabbath cover.

Next up – I’ve been promising a picture of my car – so here it is:

This was taken parked up at Sunderland Point, just south of Heysham.  Again, this is an HDR image from three exposures, but with the red dialed up and every other colour dialed down.  I would have liked to have improved the sky but really couldn’t get what I wanted, so ended up settling with this.   Pwetty all the same.

Sunderland Point is a village that’s only accessible via a tidal road – which made me a little nervous about going there at first, but I checked a tide table and determined there was no danger of getting stranded.  The place used to be a port, with a rather unpleasant history in that it was heavily involved in the slave trade.  The following page does far more justice to this history, and the subject of the next two images, than I can – ‘The Grave of Black Sambo – Lancaster and the Legacy of Slavery‘.

The grave:

Tributes left near the grave:

Finally, back to the chapel.  I’ve seen a lot of images of the place on google image search and Flickr, and figured I’d get a bit of a different shot:

As with the first two, not a ’straight out of camera’ shot.  I played around in Photoshop’s raw editor with a few things to define the edges of the stone work a bit more, and bring out some detail in the foreground.