Construction of the Chill Factore Ski Slope
Wednesday, 25th April 2007 @ 10:36 pm by Ed O'KeeffeShare This | Please comment (0)
On the route to Blackpool we traveled past the Trafford Centre on the M60 motorway. Having heard talk of a new indoor sky slope on the radio, I wondered if I would be able to see it from the motorway. Luckily the motorway goes right next to it and as you can see from the photograph above, its massive! The project had a £31 million investment from the same guys who own the Trafford Centre (Peel Holdings). It is scheduled to open in October of this year and will feature indoor ski slops totaling 180m in length, as well as a toboggan run and children’s snow play area. Also planned are alpine themed bars, cafes as well as winter sports shops. The photograph above was actually taken on the return journey as I was on the right side of the motorway and had time to see up my camera (and open the car window). For a photograph taken from a moving car at 70 miles an hour, this isn’t too bad. It will be very interesting to compare this picture to one of from the same spot when construction is complete. I have never been skiing or snowboarding before, but this might just be the place I first try it.
Glass Chess Set
Monday, 23rd April 2007 @ 9:43 pm by Ed O'KeeffeShare This | Please comment (0)
Taken on the same evening that I photographed the Glass Apple, the picture above uses a very different lighting trick. The Glass Chess Set was sat on a light box, eliminating the picture from below. I placed a black piece of card behind the set and using a tripod I made sure I was focusing on the front three pieces. I like the way the pieces further away are blurred but think that the fallen piece shouldn’t have been on it’s side. Also, three or four piece could have looked a lot better than the seven piece photographed here, but with nearly a dozen cameras pointed at this seen at one point, it wasn’t easy to move things around without ruining other people’s images. Still, I think it is an interesting lighting idea and worked really well.
Sunset behind coastal fisherman
Friday, 20th April 2007 @ 2:25 pm by Ed O'KeeffeShare This | Please comment (0)
After our Saturday morning exploring the centre of Blackpool we drove a couple of miles north along to coast to a quieter part of the beach for a picnic and a spot of sun bathing. It was a great afternoon and we decided to wait around for the sunset. There was a lot of haar (sea mist) over the sea, making the sunset a little diluted. At about 8pm two fisherman started setting up their rods over the sea wall so I thought it would add interest to an otherwise boring sunset.
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