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…

Beachhuts

  These beach huts are at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, UK – The sandy beach, the pine forests, the sand dunes – when I think of “holiday”, this is it! I have been coming here since I was small (though not so much in recent years) – at low tide the beach is huge because there is…

Slow sunrise!

    Another photograph taken on the way to the station at Charlbury back in August. Glorious colours from the sunrise and interest in sky from the clouds. I particularly like the road markings – it’s adds some fun to the image. Post processing to lift the shadows and pull back the highlights some –…

Paddington Station – Platform 1

This shot is something a  bit more dynamic – I have been reading some of the ebooks from Craft and Vision and these inspired me to do something new – I’ll write more about the books later, but they are well worth a look – taken from the footbridge at the end of Platform 1…

Cotswold Sunrise

This is a personal favourite – taken just outside Shipton-under-Wychwood looking East towards the Wychwood Forest (on the horizon on right hand side of the photo) – taken back on 18th July 2013 at about 05:45 – I just stopped by the roadside on the way to the station and chanced upon the grasses that…

Misty Morning Field

Another shot in the mist on morning from the same set as my previous post (Misty Cotswold Light Trails), this time looking across the road to the field beyond down towards the River Evenlode. As with the light trails shot, this was taken mounted on a tripod – exposure time here was 30s – fairly…

Misty Cotswold Light Trails

You could be forgiven to think that I only take architectural photographs – so, just to buck the trend on this site, here is something different. I get up very early for the commute into London, usually catching the 06:06 train from Charlbury, Oxfordshire.  Right now, it is pitch dark in the mornings (sunrise is…