Old Dock Cranes

These are some of the dock cranes (tripods) that remain as a monument in the Docklands area in London – there are eight that I know of: three at South Dock; three at the north end of Millwall Outer Dock and two at the west end of Millwall Outer Dock.  This photograph was taken of…

Happy New Year!

A fireworks picture taken a couple of years ago in the Netherlands (and boy do they know how to put on a firework extravaganza!  No organised displays, but families and individuals letting off fireworks – typically goes on for an hour!) A happy and prosperous New Year to everyone! Technical Details: Nikon D80; 1/3s;f/1.8@50mm (50mm;f/1.8;Nikkor…

Merry Christmas!

This is a shot I took recently in the shopping Centre at Canary Wharf to capture the feeling of Christmas…I was hoping for some shots with reflections in the baubles, but those didn’t work out to my liking this time round.  Anyway, this one is great – I like the bokeh (out of focus lights)…

Red Chevrolet Pickup

  This is a shot taken over the summer – the pickup truck had been placed in the plaza outside the office to promote some street kitchens that were to be set up on key dates over the summer (I have no idea why they weren’t a permanent fixture…or stuck around for a full week,…

Shipton Down at twilight

This is a great example of what can be achieved if you wait a while – the 9th September was a bright evening – I was late getting home but picked up my camera and drove up to the crossroads at Shipton Down….the sun had just about set and I didn’t have my first choice…

Sunset at St. Agnes Head, Cornwall

Shot from the top of St. Agnes Head, on the north coast of  Cornwall near St. Agnes, UK, looking out over the Atlantic – you can’t tell from the photograph, but it was very windy and cold – my daughter is sheltering out of the windy at the bottom of the triangulation point at my…

Ghosts on Westminster Bridge…

Gloriously moody twilight sky in this photograph – taken last year during a weekend stay in London – long(ish) exposure of 2s to allow the lights of the cars and buses to blur and get just an impression of the people walking by. Technical Details: Nikon D80; 2.0s;f/13@22mm (18-70mm;f/3.5-4.5;Stock lens);ISO400 – Camera mounted on Red…

St Pauls Cathedral across the Thames

 Yet another shot of the London skyline – this is much more “as-shot” than in the last photograph of St.Pauls. This was taken from the south side of the River Thames, just in front of the Globe Theatre – the camera was placed on the river wall as I had no tripod with me –…

In memory of the fallen…

Remembrance Day , 11/11/2013 This photograph was taken just after the unveiling of the Memorial to Bomber Command during June 2012 – this was just one of many moving tributes to airmen that had lost their lives during World War II.

Almost home…

A shot taken on 19th October 2013 in the Cotswolds between Shipton-under-Wychwood and Chipping Norton on the D’Arcy Dalton Way – just catching the last rays before the sun went behind the clouds and the hills in the distance – it had been raining earlier in the day, but cleared later in the afternoon giving…