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…

St Pauls Cathedral at dusk

  Shot from the Millenium Bridge, I really like this shot – the camera was resting on the side of the bridge, with the strap folded under the lens to lift it a little (making the best of the situation – next time I must have my tripod with me) – 0.8s exposure (way too…

Birds on a wire

  Another early morning shot, just before sunrise on 8th August 2013, on the way to the station at Charlbury – normally I would avoid including the telegraph poles and wires in a shot like this, but I had noticed that there were birds sitting on the wires – almost as if they were watching…

The Shard at night

  I’m very pleased with this shot – I had taken some shots from the Millenium Bridge a week ago – long exposure, with the camera on the side of the bridge, but many of the results had camera shake (the bridge vibrates with all the pedestrians!) – this photograph was taken from below North…

Happy Halloween!

  Happy Halloween everybody! Here we have some pumpkins that we carved out a few years back – OK, quite a few years back…2007!. Originally I would have edited this photograph in Photoshop, but I reset everything and did post processing in Lightroom 5 yesterday – not done much beyond setting the camera calibration and…