Morecambe Bay Cockle Pickers

Posted by Ian Bramham (Manchester, United Kingdom) on 9 December 2007 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

Over the next few days I'll be posting some photos that I took about a week ago of commercial Cockle Pickers working at low tide in Morecambe Bay in the North West of England .

The Bay is notorious in the UK for the danger and speed of the incoming tides and quicksands after 23 immigrant pickers who didn't have enough local knowledge of the tides died in 2004.

These guys were both local and very professional, and happy for me to take a few photos.

The weather was very dramatic as you can see.....within 5 minutes of getting back to the car we had one of the heaviest rainstorms I've ever seen. I was glad I wasn't still out there in the bay with hours to go before the end of my shift.

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Links to the websites of other photographers whose work I love and who have all helped me enormously over a long period of time. I find the work of all 3 to be inspirational.

Hugo Poon
John Leech
Ian Smith

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