Ceiling of the Guggenheim Museum, New York
Saturday, 31st March 2007 @ 11:51 am by Ed O'KeeffeShare This | Please comment (0)
Both occasions I visited New York with my old College we took a trip to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on the Upper East Side of New York City. The first time in 2005 was interesting and the building looks fantastic but the exhibits where slightly disappointing on both occasions . The photograph above was taken from the ground floor, just inside the entrance. The viewing gallery forms a gentle spiral from the ground level up to the top of the building, which can be seen around the edges of this picture. I struggled to like this picture, its very grainy and didn’t look very good in colour or black and white. In the end I used Photoshop to covert the original file to Black and White and then erased the center of the glass ceiling to bring back a touch of blue. Apart from the grain or noise produced by the low light, high ISO, compact camera situation I like this photograph, mainly for it’s interesting composition.
Romaldkirk Parish Church, Teesdale
Friday, 30th March 2007 @ 10:44 pm by Ed O'KeeffeShare This | Please comment (0)
I think it is time I start blogging about somewhere other than the Yorkshire Dales and County Durham but I couldn’t finish talking about last weekends trip up north without showing you this photograph above. The village of Romaldkirk is where we were all staying. This picture was taken on the Sunday morning, in fact thinking about it there was probably a mass going on at the time. I feel a littledisappointed that I didn’t go in and explore the interior when I had the chance because I do wish to try and take some stained glass photographs but I can’t do everything. The low viewpoint makes this photograph different in my opinion, it looks as if the camera was very close to the ground, but it was actually on a wall at my shoulder height. The graveyard and church are a lot higher than the road which goes around the church. The original photograph had made converging verticals which I corrected in Photoshop, but apart from this, the photograph is just how I saw it.
Hury Reservoir Channel, County Durham
Thursday, 29th March 2007 @ 11:44 am by Ed O'KeeffeShare This | Please comment (0)
This is the third photograph I am publishing this week which I took last Sunday up in County Durham. There is a tendecy to find that a lot of reservoirs look the same, which is true. There are five large reservoirs just a few miles west of Romaldkirk. The photograph above shows what appears to be an overflow channel from the nearby Blackton Reservoir and (as you can see in the photograph) it appears to take overflow water from the Hury Reservoir. Just the other side of black foot bridge is a 40 foot concrete slop down into a small river which (according to the map) eventually feeds into the River Tees down the road. It would be interesting to know where these five reservoirs provide drinking water too, I would guess most of the North East including Durham and Newscastle but I could be wrong. Still, I thought I would share this photograph with you as I have never seen a channel like this one at a reservoir before, if anyone has any additional information about what it is or does I would love to hear about it.
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