A mildly abstract one for today, make of it what you will…
05 Mar 2010 | Dorset, Landscape, Woodland | No comments added... | Email This Post
04 Mar 2010 | Detail, Intimate, Italy, Travel | No comments added... | Email This Post
01 Mar 2010 | Archie, Dog's Life, Walking | No comments added... | Email This Post
Lots of running around at the moment but always the chance for a bit of fun, though the dog seems a bit miffed by the purpose of it all. That said there seems to be a pretty good balance of the components that go to make this one up. I only noticed the cormorant after the shot – a momentary lapse there – but it’s worked out pretty well.
24 Feb 2010 | Floral, Flowers, Intimate, London | 2 Comments | Email This Post
17 Feb 2010 | China, Hong Kong, Low Light, Travel | No comments added... | Email This Post
Firstly; Happy Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger! This is the view across Victoria Harbour towards IFC1 and IFC2 (International Finance Center) at night, identical in design except that IFC2 is over twice the height of it’s brother and currently 7th tallest building in the world. The keener eyed viewers will also recognise these from the movie Batman: The Dark Knight where , in order to capture his target, Batman jumps from the top IFC2 down to IFC1. Rather him than me.
11 Feb 2010 | China, Hong Kong, Travel | No comments added... | Email This Post
The astute among you might have found a few new additions to the galley pages as I organise my images and start uploading them onto the website. The most recent addition (currently) is a series of images from Hong Kong, Kowloon, The New Territories and the outlying islands. Navigate to the gallery to see the series.
10 Feb 2010 | Landscape, Scotland, Travel | No comments added... | Email This Post
During a walk through the Rothiemurchus Forest around Loch an Eileen the pine woods gave way to a dense area of moss covered silver birch. The lingering mist lent a rather pleasing soft light to the scene.
08 Feb 2010 | Bristol, Landscape, Sunset | No comments added... | Email This Post
I was in Bristol the other day to see a friend and drop into the gallery to see if there was anything to catch up on. I couldn’t resist a quick image of the familiar Clifton Suspension Bridge at sunset during a brief wander at the end of the day. The soft pinks and purples in the sky lasted only a few minutes before the sun dipped below the horizon behind me, by sheer chance the lights on the bridge came on just before I make this image as well.
07 Feb 2010 | Devon, Geology, Intimate, Landscape | No comments added... | Email This Post
I headed down to the beach in search of a location I had seen on a previous trip, with a particular image in mind I set off to find it. Curiously though I changed my plans when I came across outcrops of rock all criss-crossed with quartz. One mound of exposed rock grabbed my attention in particular, the softer dark stone having been eroded away to expose the quartz veins and interesting patterns within. With a bright sunset occurring behind me I turned my attention and camera towards the rocks for further study, the delicate pinks from the sky set off the quartz and gently illuminated the smoothed pebbles caught in the cracks and fissures. Since photography is the creation of an image during a passage of time (regardless of it’s length), the relationship between photography and quartz is linked through our arbitrary labeling of increments as it passes. There is so much more at this location than I originally believed, I think a return visit is on the cards…
05 Feb 2010 | Landscape, Scotland, Travel, Walking | No comments added... | Email This Post
Plans to get up a Munroe in the Cairngorm Mountains at the end of September were sadly abandoned due to the fact we couldn’t see much more than 50m in front of us! Not possessing the right equipment for the conditions (you never take your chances on the mountains!) it was settled a walk in the Rothiemurchus Forest would be the alternative ‘Plan B’. As it turned out this revealed some remarkable and fascinating areas that more than made up for the lack of altitude fun and games. This part of the forest (pictures) was entirely pine trees with the old and twisted ones combining with the slowly dissipating mist creating a wild edge to the scene. The dash of colour along the floor seems to balance it.
