This is a quick set taken at Ogmore-By-Sea in South Wales. We travelled down to arrive before sunrise, and got some great light as a reward. I have some great memories of Ogmore as a child, and each time I go back there, it brings them flooding back.
Funnily enough, I thought that this morning was [...]
Hurrah! Got a mention and some snapshots published on the Collings and Herrin Blog. If you haven’t tried them yet, Andrew Collins’ and Richard Herring’s brand of Humour is not for the sensitive, or easily offended, but I love it. It brightens up many a boring car journey via the gift of the ipod.
Following on from the discovery in the previous post, I’ve decided to furnish my Lubitel 166B with some food. Fujichrome Provia 400x slide film to be precise. It’s been kind of weird shopping for film again for the first time in almost ten years – like I said – feels sort of liberating, and I’m not [...]
Following on from yesterday’s post – it’s been kind of interesting getting a feel for what all this Lomo stuff is about. I don’t know what it is that draws me to the Lomography style exactly… I think it must be the lack of any fixed rules, and the way it captures bits of life [...]
Today, I had a happy accident. Today, I accidentally (re)stumbled across the art of Lomography. Today, I finally found a genuine use for my iPhone camera. Today, I had a ‘Eureka’ moment.
Let me explain…
Photography is an art. In the end, it’s all about the aesthetics. Beautiful photos opportunities rear their heads in the most unlikely [...]
This is a set that that I took back in 2008 in Cwm Coke Works in South Wales. This abandoned industrial site drips with atmosphere, from the abandoned newspapers with last dates of work on them, to the rusting and precarious structures, tired-looking from many years of uncaring exposure to the elements.
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Part of the incredibly complex and ornate exterior of one of the buildings of the Bhuddist Golden Temple in Bangkok.
An HDR shot captured in the Brecon Beacons. I couldn’t work out whether this tree was long-dead or just dormant for the winter. The environment here can be so harsh, and makes for some bleakly beautiful landscapes.
A stunning afternoon on the Blorenge, a mountain near Blaenavon. I was fascinated by this sign with its one-way-to-cold, one-way-to-warm suggestion, (and no, I didn’t knock the icicles off one side for dramatic effect!). With the vast range of tones in this shot, I had to resort to HDR to make it look as it [...]
First in a series of studies of my gorgeous baby daughter Amélie.
A studio shot of my Wife and newborn Daughter…
A set of studio shots of my wife and our yet-to-be-born daughter Amélie…
A self portrait in a different style to my usual way of approaching these things. A return visit to Talgarth Asylum made me decide to get a little darker for a change…
I’ve been asked to post a vid of me playing the full Drag Racer track through (to accompany my last post – Guitar Tutorial – How to Play Drag Racer – The BBC Snooker Theme, and help put it in context), so here’s a more-or-less full version, played far-from-perfectly!
As a kid, I always loved the theme to the BBC snooker coverage. It’s a great little guitar instrumental called Drag Racer, and was written in 1976 by the Doug Wood Band. I enjoy playing it, and on more than one occasion have been asked to show people how to play it themselves. You [...]
This shot was taken in Abernant Tunnel, South Wales. Strong light source behind, coupled with a 30 sec exposure and a stillness and atmosphere you could cut with a knife. Abernant is an abandoned railway tunnel, a mile and a half in length. The central mile is in total blackness, as each end is slightly [...]
No manipulation here apart from cropping! A very unusual shot taken in Abernant Tunnel in South Wales with the help of a lot of darkness, a 30 Sec exposure, and a 30mw laser. It was a case of setting up the tripod, starting the exposure then going a little nuts with the laser (making sure [...]
A challenging HDR shot taken in the central Great Court of the BM in London. I love this place, and have spent many an hour chilling out there. This shot was another HDR effort, via the Sigma 10-20mm (at the short end). This time, it was taken with the express intention of producing a mono [...]
This is an HDR shot of the Catholic Westminster Cathedral in Victoria, London. It was taken at the beginning of an unexpectedly sunny period during an overcast day. I wanted to create a sense of the scale of the building, so the trusty 10-20mm Sigma was pulled out of the bag. Getting a series of [...]
I love this shot. It was the result of a lot of patience and lying in the dirt around one of the buildings on the south bank of the Thames in London. The shot itself is one of many, most of which were too blurry to use. The art with this is catching the skater [...]
As you have probably noticed, the site layout has changed somewhat. I’m still in the throws of sorting it out, so you’ll have to excuse any broken links etc until they’re sorted. Hopefully shouldn’t be too long!
Cheers!
An urbex HDR shot taken in an old warehouse in Newport, South Wales.
An atmospheric shot taken on a particularly sunny, early April day in a tube station in London. This particular lady was just whiling away the time waiting for the next train, and had decided to shuffle into the one of the few shafts of sunlight, I’m guessing for the for the warmth it brought.
I’m creating this post as my first with the new site layout. This shot was taken at Ruperra Castle in South Wales, and is a particularly menacing image of what I believe to be a Tube Web spider, a species originally from the Mediterranean. They were introduced into the UK during the last [...]
For those who’ve had a look at my previous posts, you may now be interested in giving this a go yourself. If you’re nervous, then don’t worry – it’s not THAT daunting to do. There are some fantastic guides out there.
The main problem with doing this is that there are a lot of different [...]
I’m always the same. I get a device or gadget, and, when I’m getting used to it in the first few weeks, I always go into ‘What can I do with this?’ mode. I’ll see what it can do, even if its things that I’d never use again. I was happily playing around with Ubuntu [...]
Well, well, well… Recently, I decided that I’ve been spending too much time in my office. I really like my iMac, but unfortunately, its basically a one-location machine, and I want to spend more time in other places, like chilling on the sofa with my Wife. I also wanted a portable internet device that [...]
Just a quick note. I’m sat in Cafe Nero chilling out and trying out a new netbook. I’ve got to photograph my Nephew’s wedding today, so getting a few minutes of calm in before the chaos begins! I’m shortly (next day or so) going to put a bit of a report up about the new [...]
…Waiting to get out…!
Babies eh? Who’d have ‘em! Well… us by all accounts, at least in a few months. Today has been a kind of baby-centric day when it comes to posting, so i thought I’d round it off by showing off the little one herself. Before she’s born? Yep!
A few weeks ago, the Wife and I took [...]
