Do I miss film? Nope….
Digging through my archives I came across this image I made a few years back on my Hasselblad 503. It’s a scan of black and white negative that I developed myself. I miss the tactile nature of the process of developing film. I don’t miss the faff, mess, smell, stinging eyes, and did I mention [...]
Beacon Fell, Forest of Bowland
Yesterday morning I made an early morning trip up into the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire. I’d visited the area the previous day though it was a grey and drab evening and was barely worth getting out of the car for, but at least I knew where and when I was going the next morning, [...]
Worldwide Photowalk, Manchester
Last weekend was the fourth annual Worldwide Photo Walk and as this was the first year that someone’s taken the initiative and decided to lead one in Manchester, I thought I’d give it a whirl. In fact there wasn’t one, but two this year! A bit like buses, or policemen…. Anyway due to commitments on [...]
Lydiate Lane Farm, Cuerdon, Lancashire
As I was headed up the M6 earlier this week, I decided to come off a couple of junctions earlier than I would normally and see if there was anything that caught my eye. I was specifically looking for old farm machinery and old barns with a particular project in mind. I took a couple [...]
Rhyl beach at dawn
At dawn yesterday morning, I was to be found on the beach at Rhyl in North Wales fully equipped with tripod and coffee flask. Disappointingly the tide was out and there is a whole area of the beach cordoned off for some construction work, so I could only really shoot out to sea or up [...]
The Greyhound, Ashley in the mist
It’s been a rather quiet week for me this week from a shutter actuation point of view, what with overhauling my galleries (check them out here or use the Galleries drop down in the navigation above) and uploading a decades worth of images to the US Electronic Copyright filing service but I did make the [...]
Windsor Castle in HDR
Earlier in the summer we had a family jaunt down to Legoland in Windsor, and swung by Windsor Castle on the way back. It was a bright and sunny couple of days, hardly ideal for photography, but you make the best of what you can. Windsor castle and gardens are such a lovely environment that [...]
Manchester – stitched panorama
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in the car park in the old Great Northern Warehouse accosted by a couple of security guards inquiring as to what I was photographing. Remarkably, they were quite amenable and just left me to get on with what I was doing. That has to be a first. [...]
Manchester… once more….
Having found my feet again after my little jaunt to Portugal last week (more images here), I’ve been going back through my images of Manchester that I’d shot so far this year after a request from a client for a particular image. It turns out that I have over 1500 frames still waiting to be [...]
Vilamoura, Portugal
I’ve only been back in Blighty for a few hours, so whilst wading through mountains of dirty laundry and the usual chores on returning from a break away I’ve had little time to focus on much of anything. I did manage to edit a few images on the flight back though and here are a [...]
Cheshire Sunset
Last night I headed over to see a client and drop off some images. As usual I had a camera and a couple of lenses in the boot, and as the evening light was becoming increasingly appealing as sunset approached I decided to take a bit of a detour on my way back. I drove [...]
More from Malta and Selected from the web for April
Click here to buy a print or license a digital copy of this image. Happy Friday y’all. I had penned an extended blog post on the subject of cable releases and tripods in advance yesterday only for BlogPress to eat it, and I’m afraid that I just couldn’t face trying to extract it from [...]
More from Malta 2
Click here to buy a print or licence a digital copy of this image. Once again the top image is a hand-held 5 frame HDR. (See this post for more info)
Spring is in the air
The other weekend, seeing an eery mist in the air before dawn, I hurled myself out the door determined to make some photographs before the sun rose and the atmosphere dissipated.
Another trip to the Bollin Valley
Once again, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time around my favourite haunt, the Bollin Valley around Hale and Altrincham in deepest Cheshire. I find shooting down here really relaxing and it always produces inspiration of one kind or another.
Nik’d Trees
I’ve been concentrating on shooting trees lately for a wall coverings company in the North West. So having splashed out on Nik’s Complete Collection at Focus last week, I thought I’d have a little peak at HDR Efex Pro.
Best of 2010
Once again, I’ve gone through all my images shot during 2010 and selected what I feel to be my best images. Thanks to my revised Lightroom workflow and organisation it was a significantly less painful task than last year, and when I compare the final selection to last year’s post (see here) I definitely feel [...]
Hale Head Lighthouse
For one reason and another, I decided the other day that I’d like to make an image of the lighthouse that sits on the North bank of the Mersey estuary near Warrington. I spent some time using Google Maps, Ephemeris and a raft of other tools to try and work out a good vantage point [...]
Going over old ground and still finding new images.
Shot this last night around sunset down by one of my current favourite haunts. Lately I’ve found myself drawn back to shooting around the Bollin Valley more and more, even though I’ve been coming here for years, I still manage to see something new every time and finding it very rewarding pushing myself to go [...]
Snowy Cheshire
Just a quick post with a couple of images I made on my way home the other night. The M6 was in a state of traffic chaos, so I decided to pull off and try and head home via the back roads. It took me a while, but as the temperature plummeted to -12˚C I [...]
Pre-visualisation and what it means to me
After watching Adam Barker’s new bio video, I got to thinking about pre-visualisation again, and what it actually means to me as a photographer, and how effectively I use it, or not as is sometimes the case. If you’re not sure what on earth I’m talking about then Juan Pons from over at the Digital [...]
Selected from the web – November 19th
It’s a while since I’ve done one of these, so I’ve a few worth sharing and as it’s Friday….. The Poetics of Pictures – Chris Orwig : John Paul Caponigro Blog Fantastic presentation from Chris Orwig James Appleton Photography Inspirational landscape photography Reduce Noise With Multiple Shots Simple yet effective for reducing digital noise in [...]
And onto Vietnam…
For the next part of the trip we left Luang Prabang, Laos and flew back to Hanoi, Vietnam from where we did the long drive up to Ha Long Bay in readiness for a dawn shoot and a trip round the bay at first light. We arrived well after dark so it was tricky assessing [...]
Manchester Calendar Updates
I’ve finally managed to get round to ploughing through the backlog of post processing of the images of Manchester I’ve been shooting for the last few months. Mostly HDR and the purists will probably decree that these are over-processed. But from recent experience I have to say that I’ve found that the photograph buying public [...]
