15 Days of England - Road Trip pictures - PART 1

We all go on holidays from time to time, and holidays are a great opportunity for taking pictures. Many of the places we visit are very well known and photographed by many before us. So if we want our photographs to look just a bit different and just a bit more interesting we have to forget about all those cliches that you can see on the postcards. We have to get creative instead of just copying others' ideas. Sometimes all it takes is just a step back or a step forward, adding some great foreground interest or maybe just getting different point of view. Take a leaning tower of pisa as an example. Why just take a normal photo of the tower leaning? Why not try to make the tower straight so all other buildings appear to be leaning down? It's just a simple example what you can do, and how you should try to think out of the box.

For my holiday I wen't for a road trip across England. From Glasgow, along the west coast through Liverpool, Birmingham, Bath and all in between them to Cornwall, where we were supposed to have a little break and leisure time. And then back up again on the east coast of Britain. It didn't quite work out as we hoped it will (turns out we were over-ambitious), but it was a great holiday. And I set myself a task of documenting that trip with my camera. In 15 days we drove 1870 miles through 31 counties and visited a lot of Britains famous and lesser known places. One of the first stops along the way were the sands of Morecambe Bay.

After a short break we headed towards our destination for the day - Tatton Park. But because of all the time we spent on the Morecambe sands and in the town of Lancaster we got to Tatton Park quite late:

After a night somewhere outside Tatton Park, we went straight for the coast. Crosby Beach just north of Liverpool:

Our next stop was the city of The Beatles. Liverpool with it's newly restored Albert Dock, modern buildings along river Mersey and two impressive cathedrals left a very positive mark in our memories.

Second city we visited on our way down was Birmingham - not the prittiest of Britains cities, but even here you can find some great architecture. And it was here that we came across a great photo exhibition of Steve McCurrys best photographs taken in the last 27 years. He is the author of probably the best known portrait ever - The Afghan Girl, that he took in 1984 for National Geographic (see more of his photographs on his website - http://www.stevemccurry.com/).

Because it was already a bit late in the week, and the weather was getting a bit too wet, we decided that we better hurry down south as quick as possible, and some things we wanted to see along the way we'll visit on our way back. So we only stopped for short breaks. This was taken in one of many small town we went through - Cirencester.

And finally we were getting close to our destination. But before we got there we went through Lynton in North Devon. It was here, that we had to endure rain for the last time:

Finally we reached Cornwall, and our first stop was Tintagel on the north coast - a birthplace of the legendary King Arthur.

After we left Tintagel we headed straight to our final destination - a campsite on the south coast of Cornwall, where we were supposed to have a little rest for a few days. But all that and our way back north in the next part of 'Around England Road Trip'.