Firstly can I apologise to you my friends for my laxness in posting blog updates, by anyone's standards this has been a long time coming.

The last two years have been very busy for me personally, having a career change, getting married and moving house. After 14 happy years in the motor trade I decided it was time to move on to a new challenge and having loved my time volunteering on two different lifeboats decided to make myself a career at sea. I now work on boats and ships and love being out on the ocean.

This upheaval meant I had very little time left for my photography and it kind of slipped by the wayside somewhat. 

I am now established in a full time permanent job on a ship which means I will be able to get more photography in, I am already planning a short trip into the highlands once the snow is on the ground. 

On Sunday evening my wife and I went for a walk down from our home in Scarborough's south cliff onto the beach. As we walked around with the high tide breaking onto the footpaths I saw the water draining out of the scuppers back into the sea and envisaged a photograph there. The next night I was back with a camera and got these.

Scarborough South Bay CurvesWater washed onto the path by spring tides washes back out through the scuppers into the North Sea on Scarborough's South Bay.

Scarborough South Bay High SeasHigh seas and spring tides wash water onto the promenade around the old open air swimming pool in Scarborough's South Bay as the sun sets over the North Sea.

Later that night I was joined by a good friend of mine, Andy, who is also a photographer, and we walked the seafront and got another couple of good compositions before a well earned pint. It was great to be back out with my cameras again and I look forward to more sunrises, sunsets, mountains and lakes in the weeks and months to come. I promise the next blog post won't take as long as this one!