It was literally over the road. I couldn’t not go take a look.
Climb
A
Teddy Picker
B
C
D
E
Extras!…
F
G
H - This is A but warmer. It was bothering me.
West Campus | Gallery
Wrest Park | Gallery
A lovely bank holiday morning at Wrest Park. Very much seduced by 850nm infra-red with such a great sky.
Trwyn Du
North Wales | Day 5
Puffin Island, Lighthouse, Perch Rock buoy
No Passage Landward
Mynydd Parys aerial
South Stack Lighthouse
St Cwyfans Church (would be amazing at hight tide…)
North Wales | Day 4
Diary of a 54 year old man who fell hard on the rocks yesterday and fucked both of his hands, all of his ribs, and one of his legs.
6:30am. It is raining hard. I hurt. Dead people.
St Hywyn’s Church, Aberdaron
8:00am. Whistling Sands. I have put the seat down in the car, set the lumbar support to full, turned the heated seat to max and lain here as if in traction until the rain stopped. Finally went to explore. The sand doesn’t whistle when it’s wet. No pictures. Meh. Meh meh meh.
9:30am. Porthdinilaen. Via two ibuprofen, two paracetamol, a cup of tea, a creme egg, three fried eggs, three hash browns, mushrooms, beans and a tomato. Feeling a bit better as a result. Pictures.
Happy dog.
Showed this to the owners. They thought I was trying to sell it to them, or just that I was mad. The lurching and wincing didn’t help probably.
Anchor chain
Rust
Little seaweed stands up to the Irish Sea
12:00 Trefor. Meh. Can’t be arsed.
13:00 Back in Bangor. Let’s look at the pier before returning.
Gosh it’s irritating that those two are different sizes.
At the ‘Fairy Glen’
North Wales | Day 3
River Conwy
Not looking at Snowdon
Not looking at anything
Today I was mostly sad and lonely and could, not, be, arsed.
Mawddach Estuary
North Wales | Day 2
This Mawddach Estuary image was a 10x6 grid of images focus-stacked vertically and aligned into a panorama horizontally….
Today was characterised by not really taking photographs of any of the things I’d gone to see.
“Dry-Stone Rhythms”
Not taking Portmeirion seriously.
Menai Menai
North Wales | Day 1
Do-Doo Do-Doo-Do
Trwyn Du Lighthouse
I was right...
…I can’t do it!
Compare and contrast (Martin Parratt).
Chandelier
Having spent a couple of hours at Madingley Hall yesterday just knowing there was something to be done there despite the line of cars on the forecourt, the barren garden, and the photographers everywhere (!), I’ve spent the morning looking at Frank Machalowski’s work and lambasting myself for pissing away a good opportunity.
So I’ve been trying to get multiple exposure through my skull.
American Cemetry
Madingley
Madingley Church
Springtime | Gallery
First crack at freezing flowers. It’s very hard to get a clear patch, even with distilled water as used here.
Orwell Bridge
Felixstowe
Beach Huts
Dark Market
A power cut in the Milton Keynes market today…!
Experimental Cacti Panel | Gallery
I might need to try this again when they’ve dried out. I thought moisture would be nice, but I’m not so sure now. Anyway - this is me experimenting with Helicon for focus-stacking and if anything it’s a damn sight quicker that Photoshop.
Strikes 2a/2b. Back with dry plants, and an extension tube…
… and bi-colour processing.
As usual - Completely unable to decide between mono and colour.
Peterborough Cathedral | Gallery
South Bank Day Out | Gallery
Spent most of today on a fixed 100mm macro, which served surprisingly well. It seemed to be the right focal length for natural-looking people shots, without being right up in their face. The long-exposure couple were both on my 15-35mm as I was experimenting with my ND10,000 (!) filter. It turns out that you do not really need fifteen minute exposures for anything, but it is great at removing people. You can’t really tell but Westminster Bridge was heaving for its whole length, but the exposure removed nearly everyone.
