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Thursday, 4th April

The ferry Hoy Head works in Orkney but has been in Cammell Laird for the past couple of months being lengthened. Today, they took her out for a spin on the Mersey.

Friday, 5th April

Warships

Seven warships arrived on the Mersey this morning: HMS Echo returned, along with two Polish vessels and one each from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. They'll be here over the weekend before heading up to Scotland to take part in the annual NATO Joint Warrior exercise.

Ships

Herring gull

Saturday, 6th April

Ships

Warships

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Sunday, 7th April

Monday, 8th April

Tuesday, 9th April

Warships

The foreign warships departed for Glasgow. Unfortunately, conditions were rather hazy.

Ships

Wednesday, 10th April

Gig boats

These little boats are used to move mooring lines around, mostly for the tankers at Tranmere and for ships using the mooring posts at the Cruise Terminal. The ship lowers the rope and somebody in the gig boat grabs it to carry it across to where it'll be tied up; at the Cruise Terminal, they also ferry men to the mooring posts. There happened to be three of them here at the same time, today.

HMS Echo

Friday, 12th April

Clifton

The tiny tug Clifton repairing the ladder on one of the mooring posts at the Cruise Terminal.

Reflected sun

The sun reflecting off the surface of Prince's Dock.

Saturday, 13th April

Liverpool Docks

RFA Diligence

The Navy's forward repair ship RFA Diligence has returned to dry dock at Cammell Laird. Tug boat Zeebrugge helped her into the wet basin; Zeebrugge is in Liverpool covering for one of the Smit tugs which is in dry dock.

Sunday, 14th April

Wednesday, 17th April

Saturday, 20th April

Ships

Chinatown

Sunday, 21st April

Ships

Boudicca

The first cruise ship of the year. Boudicca arrived in the afternoon to begin a cruise to the Canary Islands. She and next week's caller, Discovery, will each be visiting several times over the year.

Lensbaby shots

Rainbow

The eggsperiment

Tesco sells duck eggs and they're rather translucent so I wondered what would happen if I took a photo of one with just back-lighting from my flash. I think that, in the end, I used a sheet of paper to reflect some light back onto the front of the egg, too. It's actually white and the white-balance is set corrrectly so the orange colour is from the light being transmitted through the interior.

Monday, 22nd April

Thursday, 25th April

Saturday, 27th April

Sunday, 28th April

Ships

Discovery

Monday, 29th April