Nice Twilight.

Mixed light has always been a favourite of mine. Here is the view from our balcony this evening.

Nice Portishead Sunrise

My wife called me to alert me of the sunrise this morning. Below is the result. What you see is 6 images spliced together to help keep shadow and highlight detail.

Bowled Over this Summer!

It has been an interesting summer. Tangie and I had a great time at the Manchester County Cricket Club where we saw England give India a good licking. It's the first time either of us had witnessed world class cricket.

From the Window Seat of a 777.

It's not often I take a shot from the seat of a jet airliner and think it worthy of sharing. On this occasion however, the light was hitting the Manhattan Island skyline very nicely and despite the usual distortion and grime that comes with an aircraft window, I still managed to get this image. For the technically minded, I was using my Canon G1x. Manual focus on infinity. Aperture priority @ f16.

One Big Silver Lining.

Our new apartment is starting to feel like home and one extra nice feature is the beautiful view we have from the living room, patio and the two bedrooms. We overlook Portishead and one of these days, I think it could yield a great image. Here is a test shot...

April...A Challenging Month

April was a difficult month. I lost my beautiful mum. She was 92 years old. Thankfully she passed peacefully. painlessly, and with dignity. My mum had a wonderful spirit. She loved to laugh and had a great sense of humour. She was an adorable lady and a very special mum. She will be missed.

At the same time that this happened I came down with a bad case of chicken pox and we had to move home as well. All is the same week!

Below is a studio portrait of my mum that I took in San Diego 25 years ago. Can't you just see the warmth of her character?

The Photography Show

Wow...The brainstorming session must have been exciting to behold when they came up with the title of this new show! This was its innaugural year and although there were wrinkles that I am sure will be ironed out by next year, it was difinitely well worth attending.
Not too much on the camera technology frontier, Wi-Fi connectivity is becoming increasingly popular, as is geo-tagging (the ability to record your exact location at the time of exposure in the meta data of the image).
Of course, this is already taken for granted by photographers who use their smart phones!