about 2 years ago - 1 comment
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
The Calton Hill Canon and National Monument seem to work well in this photo, which was more of a test than anything. Again it was using the Sigma 10-20mm super wide angle lens to get everything in. Having such a wide angle (more than your field of view) makes things distorted and here I would…
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Due to its location at the bottom of a valley, it is extremely difficult to find a good angle to take a photo of Edinburgh’s Waverley Train Station. Really I should have waited until one of the trains pulled out of the platform and into the foreground of my frame, but not only was I…
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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…
about 3 years ago - 1 comment
The photo above shows one of the extremely ornate street lamps found in Leith, just outside Edinburgh, Scotland. A couple of years ago my Great Aunt once asked me to take a photo of a street lamp, I thought “pretty boring subject” but did it anyway. When I started looking more and taking more photos…
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Strangely when I thought of going to the highlands, I thought of the great landscapes, picturesque lochs and huge mountains, but completely forgot that there would be highland cattle. So when I first saw them grazing at the side of the road it was an exciting surprise to think, “Oh yeah, I will actually get…
about 3 years ago - 1 comment
I was staying in the small fishing village of Plockton in the Scottish Highlands for a few days. The main (single track) road in and out of the village had a small logging area where there were piles and piles of logs. Noticing the “too big” notice on a massively thick tree truck I knew…
