Despite the fog, and the soggy feet due to the dew on the grass, I had a great day wandering around Houghton Hall in Norfolk, an impressive backdrop to Damien Hirst’s work.
Still Life – B&W Musing
Playing around with my lighting set up, my macro lens and a couple of bunches of flowers. Pleased with the colour result, but in processing the files have been experimenting with black & white.
The original colour images.
Rise/Set
Sunrise & sunset – some of my favourite times to take photographs, a fleeting time, often requiring a dedication: getting up early in the summer; or out and about in the depth of the winters; and all the while, results are not always guaranteed. My contribution to this week’s photo challenge Rise & Set.
But sometimes it all comes together. There is a quality to the light special, as can be the colours at these transition times. Qualities unavailable before and after, so that when you do get the shot, the results are spectaculars. Results which showcase the countryside, but adds a sparkle even to the brutalist of concrete buildings.
Rise
The Aylesbury Estate in London during the sunrise. Started in the 1960s, a feature on my personal horizon all of my life. Concrete blocks soar into the sky, with walkways crisscrossing all around. The concrete walls, home to many thousands over the years, now scheduled for redevelopment. In the first, the early winter sun baths the grey walls in golden light, captured in the reflection from a barricaded walkway. Whilst on the same shot, walking to the northern side of the fenced off estate the light golden on its eastern flank, now cool and blue.
Whilst out doing an early shoot of the Aylesbury Estate in the moonlight, turning around I caught the first rays of the sun advancing over London, and Burgess Park.
Set
Here are a few of my sunset shots. The first across the rooftops of Camberwell. the next two whilst on holiday in the Isle of Wight and the last, an HDR composition of a series of photographs from on top the Guildhall Blakeney.
My jottings – the glamour of the discarded, decaying & lost – a work in progress.
As we all do, whilst out and about living our lives, we all come across objects lost, abandoned or decaying on our streets. Objects and items we trip over or ignore – walk past, side step or step over.
But sometimes there is something in these items that I can’t ignore. Something draws me in. I find something appealing and want to photograph and capture it before its collected and taken forever. Many of these are my take on these, taken with my camera phone.
Discarded
Maybe it’s the current trend, particularly in food shots, for overhead looking down compositions. Overhead shots over rustic tables, attempts to glamorise the everyday, to be Instagram-ready. Here is my take of that, of a broken brolly I found whilst out and about coming home one evening, I also like the quality and of the street-lights.
Decaying
Not the most tempting of signs for produce. A decaying sign spotted on my way to work one morning. The leaf, a victim of autumn awaiting its inevitable decay.
Fleeting
A light dusting of snow, the footsteps of people going home and captured: not forever, just till the thaw.
Abandoned
A street cone, collected by someone on their way home one night, and what seemed like a good idea at the time – a heavyweight and then just left in the middle of the pavement. Or was it placed on the man-hole – a last artistic gesture?
Out of This World
Just catching on my WordPress weekly catchups. My submissions for Out of This World.
Recently I bought a macro lens and experimented a bit with it. However, I wasn’t happy with results, so went on a half day Wex Photography course. The main focus was a number of incents and reptiles. Whilst waiting my turn to photograph the frog, I looked down and noticed the fungi on one of the sets, do look these images of them. The colours, shapes and textures came through so clear with my macro lens. Other pictures from the course here. Can’t wait to do some more. #SonyA77 #Macrophotography
And this one is quite literally out of this world.
This is the moon from my study window, one of my first attempts at photographing the moon. I pushed the lens that I had to the limit to get the image. Post production to get it this size I’ve had to use a very close crop, which has increased the noise. But for a first attempt, I’m pretty chuffed. In fact, dare I say it – over the moon!
Black & white – macro square cropped
Final set of photographs from a macro and close up photography course at Wex Photography, Whitechapel led by Wild Arena. Feel more confident and inspired to use my macro lens as a result. Playing around with square crops, and black & white.
Square Macro (Colour)
Playing around with different crop sizes. Not really an Instagrammer – but liking these square crops from my recent macro course at Wex Photography.
Macro Practise
Had the chance to practise with my macro lens on some gritters. Really enjoyed starting to get close up to the subjects.
#Sony #A77 #Macro
Elemental (2)
How to capture the elements in an urban setting? Naturally to use the built environment and how it interacts and is reflected by the elements. As the sun was rising after a night of heavy rain I caught this image of one of the blocks of the Aylesbury Estate, one of the post-war estates that dominate London’s skyline. This the walkway to Chiltern House, now fenced off due to it soon to be demolished, along with the rest of the estate. This reflection in a puddle may soon be one of the last fleeting images of a building soon to be destroyed, another of for my contribution to this week’s Photo Challenges.
Elemental
There was a summer storm on the penultimate day of our a recent break in Blakney, Norfolk. Too wet and windy to go out, I stayed inside watching the wind and the rain of the storm batter the harbour, trashing the boats at anchor and expressing its fury full-on to our cottage whilst I remained dry, trying to capturing the effects of for my contribution to this week’s Photo Challenges.
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