Morecambe Bay Photographs 49 to 62
All of the following photographs were taken by Peter Cherry FRPS, between 1979 and 1986. The cameras and film used, were an Olympus 35RC 35mm rangefinder camera loaded with Kodachrome colour transparency film, two Nikon FE and two Olympus OM1 35mm SLR cameras loaded with Kodachrome 64 colour transparency film and a Hasselblad ELM 6×6 cm camera, and a Pentax 6×7 cm SLR camera, both loaded with Agfachrome R100S colour transparency film. No coloured or special effect filters were ever used: the colours you see are the colours of nature. A quote from BBC television was “Morecambe Bay is the canvas for Peter Cherry’s photographic art”
A few hundred yards out from Morecambe promenade – this photograph appeared on the cover of ‘Cherry’s Morecambe Bay’
Digging for bait worms, near Morecambe promenade
Rocks on the Heysham shore
On the Morecambe side of the bay
New Barns Bay – a bay within a bay – Holme Island is on the right
The remains of a baulk trap, once used to catch a variety of fish
Near the baulk trap, a few hundred yards out from Morecambe promenade
Looking towards Kirk Head, from New Barns Bay
Moonrise over Morecambe Bay, looking towards the eastern mountains – three miles out from Grange Over Sands
Graves cut into solid rock, next to St Patrick’s Chapel, in Heysham, during the eighth century
Cedric Robinson’s father, Bill, in 1982 – who lived to be 102
Peter Cherry, age ten, on Arnside Knott – by his father, Ian, with his Olympus Pen half frame 35 mm camera, loaded with Kodachrome colour slide film. He was at that time allowed to use this camera, and it started his life-long passion for photography
Peter Cherry and Cedric Robinson on a cross bay walk in the mid 1980’s
Peter Cherry, being filmed by BBC television for their ‘North West Tonight’ programme, in October 1986. A quote from the commentary was “Morecambe Bay is the canvas for Peter Cherry’s photographic art.” Cedric Robinsion is grinning in the background, as if to say ‘Now its your turn to be in front of the camera!’