Photo of the Day – 10 October 2016: Buachaille Etive Mor
Buachaille Etive Mor is the iconic mountain of the Glen Coe region and is one of the best known in Scotland. No doubt part of its popularity is due to the grand view afforded of it from the main road which runs through the Glen Coe valley. A tributary of the river which flows through the […]
Photo of the Day – 7 October 2016: Aira Force
After a few days when it had been sunny, it turned overcast. There was no chance of the light being suitable for a wider view of the landscape, but the conditions were perfect for this waterfall. It is Aira Force which has a fall of around 20 metres. There is a light area at the top where […]
Photo of the Day – 17 September 2016: Eye to Eye With Bowie
This month’s photo walk organised by the RPS London region took place in Brixton. I went along partly because I used to work there many years ago and had not been back since. As much as anything, I wanted to see how the place had changed. Photographically, it was not as productive as the RPS […]
Photo of the Day 2016 – 4 September: Woodbridge Tide Mill
This is the last of the “Photo of the Day” images which I am publishing from my recent trip to Suffolk and was taken at dawn on the final morning. As with the Southwold Pier shot the previous day, I used a Lee 0.6 soft garduated filter to hold back the exposure for the sky. […]
Photo of the Day 2016 – 3 September: Southwold Pier
Another shot from my recent photographic excursion to Suffolk, this time of Southwold Pier at dawn. This was taken just before the sun rose above the horizon, after which the colour in the sky rapidly disappeared. The exposure of the sky at top left was held back with a Lee 0.6 soft graduated filter. […]
Photo of the Day – 2 September 2016: Groyne
This shot was taken during a three day photography trip to Suffolk, England. I used a Lee Big Stopper to slow the exposure to 30 seconds and blur the water. I shall be publishing a series of blog articles about the trip and will provide more details about this image in a subsequent post. […]
More From The Street
My recent photography street walk with the RPS around Bethnal Green and Shoreditch produced quite a few shots with which I was pleased. Out of the 113 exposures I made on the day, I have already published one shot as my Photo of the Day and I include a further ten in this post. That’s […]
Geotagging
I can be a bit slow sometimes, really I can. A case in point is my Olympus E-M10, which I have owned for more than two years. Yet it was only a few days ago that I realised it had a feature to tag images with the location where they were taken. In my defence, […]
Star Gazing
A while back I saw some landscape photographs which were truly remarkable. They had been taken in Southern England at night, but these were not dark pictures and the Milky Way was vividly lit up in the sky, seemingly illuminating the landscape below. I have seen similar images from elsewhere in the world where the […]
Picture of an Artwork
Grayson Perry is one of the most instantly recognisable artists working today. I saw him at the Chelsea Flower Show yesterday and although I was facing away from as he approached, in a split second I knew who it was as he flashed past. That was even though I had only previously seen him on […]