about 2 years ago - 1 comment
Above we see a female mallard duck struggling to stand up on a frozen pond at Dunham Massey. The ice was above two to three inches thick, although the park staff had broken up parts of the ice for the creatures. Below you can see a male mallard duck having very similar standing issues on…
about 3 years ago - No comments
Here we see the groom, Dean, signing the wedding register at his wedding back in September. I used natural sun light coming through the wonderful stained glass window over his left shoulder. Before the wedding I had asked the priest when was and wasn’t appropriate to use flash photography. Although he said that it was…
about 3 years ago - 1 comment
As much as I don’t enjoy seeing my own image, I thought that this was interesting enough for today’s photo. Here I am stood on the decking of one of the large piers in Barcelona Harbour. The building had an angled glass wall that distorted the straight edges of the wood. As you can see…
about 3 years ago - No comments
As a child I spent a long time collecting, building and playing with my legos. The design of the bricks and in particular the lego people are fantastic in my opinion. Which is why when I got my lego boxes out a few months ago to take some still life photography, I took a couple…
about 3 years ago - No comments
There are a lot of fantastic examples of street art or graffiti around Manchester, but nowhere more so than the arty area known as the Northern Quarter. After my recent photo shoot of the Manchester Wheel at Night, Mark wanted to explore more of the area between Piccadilly and Ancoats. Walking down the back streets…
about 3 years ago - 2 comments
Here we see a number of old Nikon film SLR (single lens reflex) cameras taken at a second hand camera shop in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. My friend Kov took me there for the first time earlier this year to have his recently purchased macro lens looked at. Whilst there I ended up buying a Vivitar…
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Civil War re-enactments are fantastic events for a photographer like myself to not only get some action photos of people in battle but also a chance for some unique portraits. At the time this was taken (about a year ago) I had no flash gun and a rather limited knowledge of the (at the time)…
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I have been inspired by close up or macro photography over the past few weeks of browsing Flickr and seeing what people can do with still life setups and depth of field. The above photograph was a quick test for my new piece of glass. Kov took me to a second hand camera shop in…
about 3 years ago - No comments
Meet Craig; he volunteered to model at a practical evening at the photographic club I go to. We were being taught lighting by ace black and white photographer Alan Angel. I think that the lighting in the above image is just right. There is enough detail in the hair as well as a nice shadow…
