Morecambe Bay Photographs 16 to 31
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 64 colour transparency film, two Nikon FE and two Olympus OM1 35mm SLR cameras loaded with Kodachrome 64 colour transparency film, 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”
Cedric drives to the cockle beds
Cedric rocks the wooden ‘jumbo’, to bring cockles to the surface
Cedric and Chris, raking up the cockles
Chris pours the cockles into a basket
The yellowing sun heralds the end of the cockling outing
Flookburgh shrimpers, Tant Wilson with his sons Tony and Michael
Tant, Michael, Les and Tony, cockling
Driving at speed into the bay
Setting the two shrimp nets – to be pulled by the tractor via a trailer
Tant trawls for shrimps at a slow walking speed, which can take up to an hour
Tant heaves up a full net of shrimps
The famous Morecambe Bay brown shrimps
Tony and Tant
Tony, blowing the steam off boiled shrimps, to see their colour
Agnes, potting shrimps
Michael Wilson, age thirteen, with his horse, Serena