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18 March 20072 June 2017

H2O (water) on Steamed up Window

Firstly and most importantly, happy mother’s day to my mum and to all the mother’s reading this. Secondly, I am hoping to enter a couple of images later this week into a photographic competition entitled “H2O”. After browsing through Flickr for inspiration I found this photograph of the word condensation, it was written in the condensation on a window. It give me the “idea” to try my own condensation photograph using the H2O symbol instead. Before you comment saying that I did it wrong, I know and it doesn’t matter to me that the 2 should have been lower. I took this photograph by using a kettle which I boiled up about a dozen times next the a window. I had the camera on a tripod and wrote the H2O with my finger on the window. It had been raining but at the time I took this photograph I think it was starting to snow outside. I am just unsure if it is good enough to enter. Please comment if you think it is good enough for a competition or not? Can you read the H2O clearly enough?

8 February 20072 June 2017

B of the Bang Sculpture, Manchester

The past two days have been really sunny, cold but with nice skies and lighting. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get but with my camera but this morning I decided I wanted to get up early and go to Manchester’s Sports City. Looking on the maps I choose to walk there, its probably about two or three miles from where I live but it is into an area of the city I have never explored before. When I woke up however it was very overcast with dark grey clouds. Still, I had made up my mind I was going to go so I did. It rained a little but I didn’t get soaking wet. After seeing the sculpture I wasn’t that impressed, the area beneath it was fenced off and two or three of the spikes had come off and were in a pile on the floor. I will have to go back one early morning when there is a nice blue sky. I like the above photo but I want a shot that gives a sense of scale because this thing is huge, 183 feet (56m) tall, thats taller than both Nelson’s Column and the Angel of the North.

3 January 20072 June 2017

Church Clock and Statue detail

Bad start to the New Year due to a friend being taken into hospital, she will be fine but its never nice in hospitals. This afternoon I took the train over to Macclesfield to visit her in Macclesfield General Hospital. I enjoyed the walk back to the station from the hospital and took a few evening photos, the lighting was very bad (cloudy, overcast and going dark) but I managed to grab this photo, I was experimenting with ‘depth of field’ in the above photo. The foreground (the statue) is sharp but the background (the clock and church) are out of focus. I made it a black & white image to give a more dramatic feel. The church is St Michael & All Angels (Church of England) in the centre of Macclesfield.