Northern Spain
Driving along the coast of Northern Spain while on holiday we came upon this deserted beach, my daughter had been seriously ill before we went away and the holiday was very difficult as she was really...
View ArticleWhite Flower
This was taken in my back garden at the start of winter the flowers were holding on despite the decline in temperatures and the nights drawing in. The image came out with a nice amount of clarity,...
View ArticlePumpkin Head
Halloween had been and gone and our pumpkin lantern was outside forgotten, one sunny November day I took a walk in the garden and came across this rather sad image of a melting pumpkin head. Halloween...
View ArticlePond in Winter
My walk to work at the moment starts along a country lane, the first bit of civilisation I get to is a path to the left of which is a pond looking out over fields. On this particular morning I managed...
View ArticlePurple Haze
This was taken in Trafalgar Square, the slow shutter speed and the purple light give the water its misty, almost magical look. Misty purple glowing water (function() { var _owa =...
View ArticleSunrise
Taken using my old GE bridge camera this is the view from the station bridge I use every day on my way to work, this was taken in October and the sunrise of this particular morning was pretty much near...
View ArticleDerelict
I was working in Bucharest, this was the view from the office building I was working in. Bucharest is a city of contrasts and the contrast between the modern office space I was in and the dereliction...
View ArticleThe Secret Garden
I’ve started to get into black and white photography recently, I find it particularly effective when taking pictures of architecture, although in this instance I took a picture of a local park during...
View ArticlePigeon Street
As previously mentioned I have been investigating black & white photography, this was taken in the same place as the previous post but has a little less editing to it, just a touch around the...
View ArticleLondon in Bloom
These images were all taken in Regents Park during a lunch break, such a wide variety of colours on offer, if you can make it past the joggers
View ArticleGolden Sunrise
Taken first thing in the morning just as I left my house to go to the station. This image has been cropped and lightly edited in GIMP.
View ArticleWhat makes an image interesting?
I went to a gallery today featuring a selection of photos taken in China all in black & white, they weren’t of anything specific just random slices of daily life or things that caught the...
View ArticleLondon in Black & White
I’ve been doing more black & white photography recently, the way images look in black & white seem to make them more timeless I think. These are not everyday tourist shots of London but do show...
View ArticleThe Accordionist
I was in Stamford during the late winter/early spring, this was when the UK was actually getting some decent weather. Stamford is a busy historic market town and that day there was a fair so it was...
View ArticlePocket Rocket
I recently had the opportunity to do a photo shoot at Lydd Karting for a sponsored 2 hour endurance race. It was a beautiful sunny day with perfect conditions for racing and photography. I was lucky...
View ArticleReflections on Opportunity
This is a rubbish photo, I know, but hopefully if you finish reading this you will understand why I have posted it. A magazine I read set a challenge, photograph a reflection in water, that night it...
View ArticleJurassic Park – In minature
Everyone loves dinosaurs, alright well I do anyway.. I thought I would do a little creature feature so I bought a tank and some soldiers, borrowed my wife’s model dinosaur and went out the back garden...
View ArticleDown on the beach
Summer finally arrived in the UK, for a short time anyway. It has coincided with me taking a week off work and my daughter being on holiday, we decided to make the best use of the time we had and...
View ArticleDown on the Beach PtII
Another series of beach shots, this time taken on the French coast, Sainte Cecile Plage and Hardelot Plage to be specific, sadly the fine weather of recent weeks had abandoned us so any thoughts of...
View ArticleChaos and disorder
Ok, so today I am at work, we’ve been burgled for the 3rd time in six weeks, my boss is away and I am very, very bored. What am I to do, well I decided to take arty black & white photo’s of the...
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