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This was one of my most successful night shoots of last year, on top of Calton Hill in Edinburgh in December. This is by far my favourite area of the city for photography and as much as I had been many times before this was a first at night. Having had a previous photo of…
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The road in the photograph is the Mound which leads from Princes Street up to High Street AKA The Royal Mile. I thought that the Christmas lights on the trees made a great looking photo although the reflections on the road and pavement weren’t quite as I had hoped. The white and red light trails…
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Opposite the prestigious department store Jenners is this Ferris Wheel in Princes Gardens. As this photo is taken at night you can’t see the Scott Monument behind the wheel, but I wanted to capture the interesting light display as it moved slowly around. Obviously this is a nice long exposure of five seconds, which makes…
about 3 years ago - 1 comment
Since photographing some great examples of graffiti in Manchester and Salford, I was keeping my eyes open for walls of Barcelona’s street art that I had heard so much about. Here I used a 18mm wide angle lens, so I could get nice and close to the walls and not get trees or street furniture…
about 3 years ago - 1 comment
Flying to a new city such as Barcelona with today’s low baggage weight meant that taking a large and heavy tripod in my suitcase was a hard decision to make. That was until I found out I was going to have a chance to see the wonderful Font Màgica (magic fountains) outside the Palau Nacional…
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Going to the Bristol Balloon Feista 2008 I had half a dozen photographs in my mind that I hoped to capture. Some of which didn’t come to pass as discussed on a previous post, but this one was definitely on my agenda. I had seen similar half inflated, bright coloured hot air balloon pictures in…
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I have always thought that, given a long enough exposure time on the camera, statues at night could make for interesting photos. So, keen to try this theory, I went to the biggest statue / sculpture that I could think of at the time. The Victoria Memorial is placed at the centre of Queen’s Gardens…
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I have walked down the bank of the River Thames in London about half a dozen times and never noticed these fountains until last Friday, when I was out exploring possible night locations. When I framed up this photo in my mind I knew it could be special with a long exposure, so I came…
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On Saturday I was lucky enough to photograph the BMW Sauber F1 Team’s Pit Lane Park at the Trafford Centre. It was great to get so close to such a powerful car, espically when I am starting to take a keen interest in motorsport. Obviously this weekend was the Grands Prix at Sliverstone, so Nick…
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Inverewe Garden is a botanical garden in the Scottish Highlands, just to the north of Poolewe in Wester Ross. It was started in 1862 by Osgood Mackenzie on the estate surrounding Inverewe House. This was taken in the walled garden, one of the first large areas in the garden that you come to. When I…
