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The Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta is without a shadow of a doubt one of my favourite locations in Tuscany.
This gorgeous little church stands high up on a hill near Pienza flanked by two rows of Cypress trees with a Maritime Pine standing guard close by. It is perhaps one of the most enchanting and beautiful scenes I have ever seen, simple yet so wonderfully evocative.
Once parked in the roadside layby across the fields, I waited a few minutes for the sun to rise and reveal the beauty of the church. Isn't it just stunning?
I hope you like the image. Here's a link to some more information about the church for those interested in reading up on it. Here's a bit of trivia for you. The church once housed the Madonna sculpture by artist, Andrea della Robbia.
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I stumbled on this gorgeous little yellow chapel while out in Tuscany for a week or so last September. Being on my own allowed me to simply drive and discover new places, down a neverending myriad of roads.
I was actually on the way to photograph a nearby church when I came across this little gem. I spent perhaps half an hour trying different compositions but ultimately I opted for the conventional head-on shot.
The trees on either side of the door are the gorgeous Cypress trees and their grey bark are full of detail and texture. Isn't it such a beautiful scene? I cannot wait to return to Italy in September and show the country my support after all they are going through. It's a beautiful country with fantastic, passionate and friendly people and they deserve all the support and help we can give them.
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Welcome to one of my favourite locations on the truly magical Isle of Skye, Neist Point Lighthouse. This location offers so many compositions, both high up from the cliff tops or as in this image, down by the lighthouse itself (if you can be bothered walking down a couple of hundred or so steps and back up again to reach the car park)
This is a wonderful section of rocks that allow for a great composition to have the rock island separated from the mainland as well as the lighthouse being highly visible too.
I hope you all like it. Have a great day.
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A truly stunning sunrise behind the Old Man of Storr. I wanted to capture this iconic 160ft high rock from a different angle and I love this framed composition. What do you think?
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I am running a seven night, landscape photography northern lights workshop in Lofoten, Norway 7th-14th Nov 2019 £1,495. Click the link for more details.
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Wow, what a fantastic experience I enjoyed on Saturday down at Reine. While photographing the usual scene of the red Rorbuer fisherman's cabins and the mountain, Ed, my travelling friend on this week long Lofoten recce for a winter workshop next year, shouted to me that a sundog had appeared behind me (otherwise known as a 22 degree halo).
On turning around, this glorious sundog was fully visible for some minutes which gave me enough time to carefully consider my composition to include part of the village below.
Ever since I captured my iconic Fogbow photo on Rannoch Moor in Scotland in November 2016, I have held a desire to photograph the 'bow trilogy', That encompasses a fogbow, a moonbow and a sunbow (sundog) and I am so delighted to have captured two of the three bows now. Just a moonbow to go.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the image. Have a great day.
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For those who are not aware of the sheer delights in visiting and photographing the Assynt region of the west cost of Scotland, you really do not know what you're missing.
This part of Scotland flies under the radar when compared to Glencoe, Skye and Harris and Lewis but it is no less magical and in the right light, is absolutely stunning. Here is an image I shot back in October during my workshop of the lovely little abandoned bothy in Elphin.
On this particular day the storm clouds and threatening sky mixed in with some fantastic heavy showers offered up a double rainbow right over the bothy. I am known as the 'Bow Whisperer' for my natural luck in photographing a whole range of rainbows in some amazing locations and on this occasion, I am so pleased to have lived up to my nickname, lol.
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A newly edited image not seen before. I remember this amazing display like it was yesterday but it was actually taken way back in March 2017 during my first week alone in Iceland.
I had just driven the short journey from the iconic black Budir Church nearby around midnight to capture the aurora over this wonderful emergency hut that is located by the roadside at the top of a mountain pass.
As beautiful as this scene is, being all alone at the top of a mountain pass at midnight is quite an eerie experience. While I was stood in this very spot capturing this particular scene, I swear that I could hear footprints in the snow behind me yet every time I turned around, I could see nothing there. It was quite unnerving I can tell you but just look at that view, it was enchanting.
Whenever I start seeing the aurora developing in the sky, I start feeling like a child on Christmas morning. There's an excitement that washes over me and I cannot help but feel mesmerised at the sheer beauty of one of the earth's most amazing wonders.
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Sunrise at the Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta, Tuscany, Italy
Today, for one reason or another, has had me wish I was back in Tuscany. I watched a film the other evening called 'Made In Italy' with Liam Neeson and his real life son Micheál Richardson. It was set in Tuscany and for almost two hours, I sat and reminisced about my weeks spent in the same region. The gorgeous sunrises and sunsets over some of the prettiest scenery I have ever seen.
Tuscany really is a painters/photographers dream for the scenery is sublime and it is so easy to imagine sitting on a terrace outside your hilltop villa looking out over extraordinary views.
This scene here is one of my favourites, if not my ultimate favourite. The Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta is a beautiful little chapel that nestles high up on a hilltop which affords it views that look far and wide into the distance. It is a stunning view looking from the roadside as I was here waiting for the sun to rise and illuminate the valley. The Cyprus trees that flank all sides of the chapel frame the building beautifully.
Oh, how to be back there right now. Well, I shall be in September running my autumn workshop. If you would like to join me, I have just two places available. melvinnicholsonphotography.co.uk/product/tuscany-italy-ph...
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HMS Belfast and Tower Bridge.
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Shot today during my workshop whilst my client was setting up his camera. Overcast skies and drizzle turned to gorgeous sunshine and wonderful cloud formations. Llanddwyn Island has a handful of lovely single beaches and the rock formations are just beautiful with some amazing colours to boot.
I framed the old lighthouse and boathouse in the distance (deliberately not centrally placed) with the rocks and single beach in the foreground. The sun illuminated the shingle whilst the rocks lit up like a Christmas tree. A wonderful day in a beautiful place with great company.
Have a great weekend everyone.
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45 secs
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.A brand new image edited and one that was taken back in February this year during a week long photo workshop I was running. I experienced some of the fiercest weather conditions I have ever experienced but on this particular day, the conditions had calmed down for a little while so everyone was out enjoying one of Iceland's most popular and impressive waterfalls.
Trying to get a photo here without people in it is almost impossible so why not include them but shoot the image over 30 seconds and have them all look ghostly which to my mind adds to the atmospheric feeling we experienced.
Black and white was the obvious way to go but in truth, there was almost no colour present anyway bar the jackets of those who were in front of me.
I hope you enjoy it.I cannot wait to return to Iceland in October to run another week long photo tour. The gorgeous autumnal colours will light up the landscape with no snow present except on the glaciers of course.
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There have been many times on my workshop these past couple of years where I have been rendered almost speechless and witnessing Gullfoss in full flow pre-dawn in the dark is one of them.
This shot was taken October 2017 during a beautiful morning. One of the main advantages in visiting Iceland in the autumn (by far my most favourite time of the year) is that the lower path down to this viewpoint is open and accessible because in the winter, with the snow and slippery ice, the authorities close it off relegating you to having to shoot from the top cliff which to my mind is not nearly as enjoyable.
The sheer power of this waterfall has you feel incredibly small and insignificant. The challenge for me and my clients was to capture this amazing location at its best.
Here's my take on Gullfoss
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f10
2.5"
ISO400
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Tripping The Light Fantastic, Peel Ports, Liverpool
This is my second image shared from my sunset shoot down at Crosby Beach in Merseyside a couple of nights ago. I bumped into local photographer Dominic Darvell who very kindly offered up a suggestion or two on what to shoot in the area and this scene was one of those suggestions.
The secret in capturing this shot is to wait for the tide to recede until the water offers up some great reflections of the tall shipping container cranes in the distance. It's quite a narrow window of opportunity as the water had dropped too much within a couple of minutes of taking this shot, rendering the reflections non-existent.
Thanks to Dominic for his company and for his local knowledge of the area. It is always a pleasure shooting with local folk who possess a great deal of experience and knowledge in shooting their local area.
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I first drove the Great Ocean Road way back in 2003 during my year's backpacking adventure in Australia and New Zealand. Returning to this magnificent part of Australia (which is without a doubt is one of the finest ocean drives anywhere in the world) has brought back some lovely memories for me but I was keen to photograph the iconic and world famous sea stacks of the Twelve Apostles as previously, I was only armed with a Sony compact camera and before I found that I had a real passion for landscape photography.
So here is my take on the gorgeous sea stacks. Captured at sunset, the faint glow of the decreasing light and the setting sun behind me casts a gorgeous golden glow on the stacks themselves. It really is a wonderful place to spend an hour or two first thing in the morning.
Anyhow, I hope you all like it and enjoy the rest of your evening.
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Durdle Door Sunset.
A beautiful evening at Durdle Door in Dorset, UK.
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Manfrotto 190 XDB tripod
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The beautiful but hauntingly titled Wailing Widow Falls at Loch na Gainmhich in Assynt, Scotland last week
Captured last week on my five day Assynt and Inverpolly workshop, the beautiful yet evocatively named Wailing Widow Waterfall hides in a short gorge that can be walked in around ten minutes or so from the main road.
I spent a few minutes waiting for my clients to get their shots while advising on the best composition but in fact it was a couple of my clients who captured a similar viewpoint to this ahead of me. Still the gorgeous mossy rocks in the foreground lead you into the waterfall superbly well while the stunning redness of the rock on the left hand side of the waterfall really injects a nice bit of colour into the scene.
I would have liked a little more water so I shall return in January to shoot it again when I head back up there.
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This gorgeous little loch nestles just one mile east from the centre of Lochinver and it offers stunning views of Suilven and the trees reflected in the calm waters at dawn.
Parking the minibus in the main car park and a brisk ten minute walk down to the water's edge affords you this view. Isn't it just magical?
Assynt is full of outstanding scenery and my five clients enjoyed the various places that I took them to this week on my Assynt and Inverpolly workshop.
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One of the most engaging and dramatic places I have ever visited is Elgol on the magical Isle of Skye in Scotland. This place has on a good day, a real presence about it and more than a feeling of sheer menace on a bad day and I've seen it during both.
Here is a shot that I took back in March 2018 while running a workshop. The conditions were favourable and calm but the colour, texture and feel of these wonderful rocks is quite something else. I liken the feel and look to very rough sandpaper. My advice is never to fall on these rocks wearing shorts, lol.
I hope you all like it and are not going too stir crazy just yet.
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25"
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A Beautiful still night at Tower Bridge.
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Canon EOS R8
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Canon 20-35mm F3.5-F4.5 USM
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Ville di Corsano, Tuscany, Italy
This view awaited me on my very first day in Tuscany way back in September 2019 as I was driving to my hotel in San Quirico d'Orcia. The light was especially wonderful in that it only lit up small areas at a time due to the white fluffy clouds blocking out some of the sun.
I quickly pulled in a layby and set up the camera and spent the following hour or so being mesmorised by the utterly stunning view this part of Italy possesses.
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As my time in Australia draws to a close tomorrow and I fly back home to the UK, I am spending my final evening in this fine country editing a handful of images including this one of the magnificent Natural Bridge waterfall that I took yesterday.
This is a gorgeous waterfall that drops down into a cave covered plunge pool in the beautiful Springbrook National Park. Isn't it stunning?
The real treat was once the light had faded, the sight of hundreds of glow worms that line the underside of the cave's ceiling all lit up green. It was awesome to experience but incredibly difficult to photograph.
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Sunrise Over Heraklion Port, Crete, Greece
One of the things about photography that I absolutely love is to sit down on a lazy afternoon and look through my images taken on recent trips/workshops and to be able to relive the happy memories and experiences that I really enjoyed at the time.
This particular image of sunrise over the port of Heraklion in Crete back in April 2019 reminds me of a glorious week on Greece's largest island. I do love a bit of the industrial landscape.
Regarding this image, it is a single exposure shot. The Canon EOS R mirrorless camera did a great job in allowing me to lighten the shadow areas without introducing colour noise etc although these days, I use a Canon R5 although I still have the EOS R as my backup camera and for time-lapses.
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One of my favourite stretches of river anywhere in Scotland, part of the wonderful Cauldron Falls near the Kings House Hotel on Rannoch Moor. This image was taken back in November 2016 and I am still editing images further back than then due to having shot a vast number of images these last 18 months or so.
To have such a huge number of images to wade through and edit is in part frustrating but hugely enjoyable as I get to relive my time on location in the most beautiful parts of the UK (and Iceland and Ireland too).
The morning I took this shot, my phone was going crazy as Fogbow hurtled around the world on its quest for worldwide domination, ha, ha. I had to cut my day short and return to the hotel to deal with emails, phone calls etc. But I look back on that Tuesday morning with pleasure for the peace and serenity that the location offered me was in direct contrast to the hustle and bustle I was to face an hour later back at the hotel.
I hope you all like it. If you would like to take images like these or visit the gorgeous places I do on my photography tours, come and join me this November for my four day Glencoe photography tour. You'd be more than welcome.
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Fairytale Island In The Mist, Lake Bled, Slovenia
I am almost running out of superlatives where Lake Bled is concerned and in particular, the most beautiful lake island that I have ever seen and photographed.
Three days ago on Wednesday morning, I ventured out of my apartment and drove the five minute journey to the campsite car park at Zaka on the west side of the lake, where a few minutes later, I captured the image of the island in the mist with the wooden logs under the water that seems to have been well received (thank you if you liked, commented or shared the image. Much appreciated. See the image in the first comment box below if you have to see it).
After I left the lakeshore beaming ear to ear, I drove on up to a nearby car park a couple of minutes up the road and started to explore the shoreline around the Cafe Belvedere, an elevated cafe that belongs to the lovely Villa Bled Hotel and resides in their grounds. Bar a couple of fishermen in their two boats below me, I was completely alone and the views from up high at the viewing platform were amazing.
The island was surrounded by mist, that was rolling over the lake and the separation of the island from the mainland behind was just perfect and exactly what I was after capturing on camera. The colours of the trees below me were absolutely ripe and in full autumn bloom. The colour of the water a beautiful deep green and the Kase Polarising filter really helped to bring out the colour in the water too.
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After a difficult day with the camera due to plenty of mist, drizzle and grey skies, I decided to venture down on my own to a little beach close to the cottage where I am staying near Uig on Lewis and what a gem of a find it was.
Once parked, I walked no more than ten minutes to reach a completely secluded beach with the tide some distance out. The sand was untouched and the feeling of complete isolation was something that I have been craving for since stepping onto the island on Saturday. Not because I don't enjoy the company of my good friends because I do but I often shoot solo and it's simply what you get use to.
I spent some time on the beach and the adjoining rocks until I settled on this random lobster pot. I set up the camera and waited twenty minutes for the water to get to me but when it did, it was more than worth the wait. The secret to these short exposure images is to shoot plenty of them because you cannot control how the water hits the lobster pot or how it is going to form on camera.
All told I am really happy with this photo and I hope you like it too.
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Sunset at Central Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire
Ahh, Blackpool. The Las Vegas of the UK. My hometown although I have not lived there since 1996 but I do live in its neighbouring town, Preston so it is only a hop, skip and a jump in the car to reach and the UK's most popular coastal resort certainly offers up some gems to photograph.
For a start, Blackpool has not one, two but THREE PIERS. They are all around 150 years old so the upkeep on them is tremendous but Central Pier is the 'fun pier' for it has fairground rides and a huge ferris wheel to ride on.
So last week I ventured down for a couple of hours and I managed to wander onto the pier as there seemed to be a fair amount of activity going on. Turns out, the TV show The Bay was filming at the bottom of the pier so it was assumed that I was part of the crew but once it became apparent that I wasn't, I was politely informed that I would have to leave, but I was fortunate enough to capture this scene before packing up. The secret is setting up and working quickly but the security guard was a lovely chap so it was all good.
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White Christmas at St Thomas Church, nr Å kofja Loka, Slovenia
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Yesterday morning, I rose out of bed at 5am and drove an hour to reach the top of an elevated, partially icy hillside road that overlooks the gorgeous St Thomas Church in the background. I have been here on three occasions before and I always look forward to visiting. Here's a link to watch one of my timelapses from a previous visit (it's an amazing timelapse by the way ;-) flickr.com/photos/melvin_nicholson/50404117152/in
I arrived 20 minutes before sunrise but in truth, there was no sun to rise, only low lying cloud that was rolling by. Still, it was worth setting up both cameras, my Canon R5 for stills and my Canon EOS R which was used to film me talking about how I go about creating the images I was about to shoot.
I was there over two hours, watching the low cloud roll through the scenery in front of me and it was glorious. There was a gorgeous blue hue offering up as a backdrop to the white church and snow and a seriously fierce hoar frost overnight had all the trees turn white. I was in landscape photography heaven I can tell you.
So here is one of the images that I captured and I will show many more from my day out with my camera yesterday in my upcoming YouTube video. This will be my first video on location since Lofoten Feb 2019. I hope it is going to be worth the wait ;-)
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A gorgeous end to a day's photography when the sky turned the most beautiful shade of pink, orange and yellow.
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Sunset at Enys Dodnan and The Armed knight, Lands End.
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There are few places that I visit that look so perfect, that they require little or no editing in Photoshop but my visit to the utterly mesmorising Alpe di Siusi in the Dolomites a couple of weeks ago was one such occasion.
There's something about Europe's highest Alpine meadow that radiates a softness, a sort of a 'Disney' look, so perfect it looks like a scene from an animation movie. With it's 10,500ft mountain range, gorgeous trees and rolling hills complete with wooden alpine lodges dotted about the place, it's just beyond words really.
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I love the wonderful little fishing village of Arnarstapi because it offers so many opportunities to capture some stunning locations. One of my favourites is this beautiful white house that nestles in the shadow of the volcano of Snaefellsnes. The coastline sea stacks are rugged and full of character. Arnarstapi has a very small fishing harbour and these wonderful snow covered sea stacks create a dramatic scene.
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Groyne at last light.
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Muir Burning (Bracken Fire), Sconser, Isle of Skye, Scotland
During my last couple of weeks on Skye running my Skye photography workshops, my clients and I have seen several controlled bracken fires (which is quite common at this time of the year).
Yesterday, I became aware of a fire in Sconser, so once my workshop had finished, I ventured out late last night to capture an image of the fire (from a safe distance) and this image was taken from Kyles View across the water of Loch Sligachan with Sconser in the distance.
For those wondering why bracken fires (officially called muir burning) are started, here is an explanation.
Legal muir burning is being carried out at the moment by hill farmers and landowners. Fires are deliberately set to burn off long grasses and heather to encourage new grazing for sheep and grouse.
Muir burning can take place between 1 October and 15 April and can be extended if permission is granted.
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Winter Winds, Central Pier, Blackpool
On Saturday (5th Feb 2022), I led a lovely group of four enthusiastic photographers on my one day long exposure workshop to Blackpool, Fleetwood and Cleveleys in Lancashire, one of which had travelled up from London for the day too.
The slight issue was that the weather had other ideas in that heavy winds and rain played havoc with our best attempts at capturing a handful of long exposure images. However, taking shelter under the 154 year old Central Pier in Blackpool offered us some respite from the challenging conditions bar the fact that the incoming tide was crashing over the tall concrete steps that we were all standing on.
Once I ensured all those who wanted this shot got it, with some assistance from me and my awesome set of Kase filters, I fired off a dozen shots as they were all packing up to move on.
I started with a couple of long exposure images in order to smooth out the water but I quickly swapped the ten stop filter for the six stop one and fired off a dozen shots in quick succession that had the texture of the water retained. This happened to be my favourite of those I took.
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Fiery Sunrise, Sango Bay, Durness, Scotland
Here is another image captured on Sango Bay beach back in mid-September. This beach is located right at the very top of Scotland and having camped in my makeshift campervan/minibus just up the road, I peered out of the window at 6am to see a strip of burnt orange on the horizon over the sea.
I quickly got dressed (while blurry-eyed) and drove the two mile journey to the car park, and hurried down to the beach where I set up the camera and tripod all alone. There was nobody else about for some time, before the odd dog walker wandered by.
The sky was fantastic (I shall post the other shot I shared a few weeks ago in the comment box below) and the colour grew and grew and grew. It was amazing. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy looking at this gorgeous scene as much as I did photographing it. It is a sunrise that I shall remember forever, that's for sure.
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Enys Dodnan and the Armed Knight rock formations at Lands End.
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I have finally found some time to look back through my extensive portfolio of images from my three months travelling around various countries and I am sat at my PC smiling ear to ear while looking at this image of a truly mesmorising morning at the iconic Belverdere Farmhouse in Tuscany.
I spent eight days travelling alone in September, discovering all the wonders that Tuscany has to offer and I was completely blown away by the sheer beauty, serenity and peacefulness of the place.
San Quirico d'Orcia in particular (where I was based), was the heart and soul of the region and is famous for having swirling mist rolling down and through the valley below and I had these conditions on several mornings. It was just magical. Even my hotel balcony had views looking over the valley (Casanova Hotel and Spa).
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I have just realised that i never shared this image on Flickr as I came across it today. I took it when in the gorgeous region of Assynt in Scotland last October with my good friend Tony Higginson.
Having spent an hour climbing up the mountainside of Stac Pollaidh, enduring rain and high winds as well as carrying a 11kg rucksack and a 5kg tripod, the weather delivered a gorgeous rainbow over Loch Sionasgaig. Thankfully I already had the 16-35mm lens on the camera and complete with a Nisi polariser, I fired off a handful of shots whilst wiping the rain off the polariser filter.
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Captured during an absolutely gorgeous sunset on Monday evening. This lady walked into shot whilst on her phone but little did she know that she was stood directly in the middle of the setting sun. Fantastic piece of timing if ever there was some.
Chesterton Windmill for those interested is a 17th-century cylindric stone tower windmill with an arched base, located outside the village of Chesterton, Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building and a striking landmark in South-East Warwickshire.
It was built around 1632-1633, probably by Sir Edward Peyto, who was Lord of the Chesterton Manor House. The mill tower with a cap height of 36 feet. (Wikipedia)
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Winter Wonderland, Festhaeltinden, Hamnoy, Lofoten, Norway
I shared an image from Lofoten the other day from my visit in 2018 and I mentioned that it felt like an eternity since I was last in Lofoten (I was last there Feb 2020) and that I cannot wait to return this November to run my final autumn workshop in Lofoten (I will be running only my winter workshops in Lofoten from 2023 onwards).
Well, here is an image that I edited this morning from my last visit in February 2020. I personally believe that Norway wears its white winter coat of snow better than anywhere else and I include Iceland in that too. Lofoten is simply stunning, especially when there's a sprinkle of the white stuff on the mountains.
This particular image was taken at midday and there was a stiff breeze, hence the slightly choppy water but the red rorbuer fishing huts look amazing when set against freshly fallen snow. It is such incredible scenery.
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Moonlight Over Ashness Landing Pier, Derwentwater, Lake District
I have photographed this wonderful location since February 2007 and on Tuesday morning, I captured this image of the falling moon that was directly and centrally positioned over the pier. It was a breathtaking moment I can tell you.
It looked majestic, atmospheric and simply stunning all at the same time. The reflection of the moon lined up perfectly with the centre post of the pier. The mist was present on arrival and really added to the amazing feeling we experienced. The colour was gorgeous too, a mixture of blues and magentas present. What a pre-dawn shoot that was.
For those interested, this image was captured on Tuesday morning at 7.49am, some thirty minutes before sunrise. I was excited before I even reached Keswick as I could clearly see the mist inversion that lay over the lake from the main A66 road.
I was even more delighted to find the pier was devoid of photographers on arrival and when all of the planets align to provide you with a magical moment to capture such a beautiful scene, you simply have to enjoy it and smile.
I hope that it makes you smile too.
If you would like an opportunity to photograph this beautiful view, come and join me on my Four Night, Lake District Spring Workshop that is taking place 4th-8th April 2022.
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Canon RF 14-35mm f/4 @ 16mm
f/8
3.2"
ISO100
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This is a fantastic location and one that I visited for the very first time today with my good friend Tony Higginson after wanting to find it for a couple of years or so now. Banishead Quarry has a waterfall (approx 80ft) that drops into the clear waters of below.
There's quite a difficult and dangerous climb down the side of the steep banking to reach the water's edge but if you're prepared to risk it, the reward awaits. The colours in the rocks are just amazing. Reds, yellows, oranges, greens, blues, they're all here. It's a really beautiful place to visit and it's only around a couple of miles from the car too.
I hope you all like it and feel free to SHARE and as always thank you for doing so.
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Canon 70-200mm f4 @ 70mm
f8
0.8 sec
ISO100
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This was taken yesterday afternoon during a two day 1-2-1 with Gareth, a regular client of mine. I love Anglesey and it is a wonderful island full of gems, some revealed and some hidden and this location at Rhoscolyn is a place that I have been wanting to visit for about three years now and yesterday I had the chance to do so so I took Gareth along to see what he would make of it too.
He was not disappointed. Me too. The walk down to the water's edge is erm....let's just say....quite steep on grass (don't go down if wet otherwise you'll slide off the huge grassy slope and into the water and that would be fatal). But we both managed to descend down to the water's edge with lots of care and attention but the effort was so worth it.
The seas were raging, with huge waves crashing against the cliffs and rocks. We stood far enough back to avoid the waves themselves (just) but close enough to really capture the action in full flight. It was so exhilarating and exciting to photograph such a fantastic looking place so full of drama. I will definitely be returning on my next visit.
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Canon 5D MK4
Canon 16-35mm f4 @ 24mm
f14
1/4 secs
ISO50
Nisi 0.6 Medium Edge ND Grad filter
Nisi Polariser
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Gitzo GS3121LVL low profile levelling base
Manfrotto 405 geared tripod head
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I stopped off at this location yesterday for an hour or so to give my Harris and Lewis workshop clients the opportunity to capture this iconic waterfall on camera.
The conditions were superb and great for shooting water shots. The water level was perfect, just enough water to create some action and interest and not too much so that it does not hid the rocks. The low lying cloud partially hides the mountain while leaving the tree in full view.
I wanted to include the large rock that was standing proud in the water so I had to bolt on a 16-35mm lens and shoot at 16mm and f13. A polariser helped to darken down the water around the rock and the base of the waterfall A short shutter time of just two seconds allowed for detail to be retained in the waterfall but allow it to look soft enough to look 'atmospheric' or 'romantic' for you ladies :D .
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The Shard and London Bridge.
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Exposure 30 seconds @ F16 ISO 200 at 35mm
Canon EOS R8
Canon RF Adapter
Canon 20-35mm F3.5-F4.5 USM
Manfrotto 190 XDB tripod
Hahnel Remote Capture remotes
Hyperion camera strap
What a beautiful morning we had as we are positioned opposite the simply stunning Passo Giau mountain.
We arrived for sunrise and the view was magnificent, there was not a cloud in the sky and it did not feel cold despite the minibus recording a temperature of just +2 degrees.
The Dolomites really is such an amazing part of the world.
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A Sunset over Bournemouth, taken from Groyne 52 at Southbourne in 2020.
A post processing test in DPP. The only Post processing that has taken place is the basic processing within Canon’s Digital Photo Professional software. The file was then opened in Photoshop and converted to 8 Bit and sRgb, logo and border added, then exported at 2000 pixels on the long edge at 96 ppi and saved as a jpeg at Photoshop level 10.
I am very much a follower of the processing methodology of Vincent Versace as I believe his books and processing techniques produces the finest outcome from a file. Vincent also believes that no one knows a file better than the company/manufacturer that actually produced that camera, in my case Canon. So I attempted this today using only Digital Photo Professional to do basic adjustments then exporting it to 16 bit. My Photoshop work was only to prepare if for the web, Flickr and Instagram.
The quality of the file I have to say was not only very clean and but also very sharp from DPP, I do think sometimes we all discard the manufacturers free software without actually giving it a try.
Either way, I was happy with the result.
Technical details;
Exposure 1.5 sec @ F13 at ISO100
Canon EOS 60D & Sigma 10-20 F4-F5.6
Manfrotto 190 XDB tripod
Hahnel Remote Capture remotes
Formatt Hitech Filters Firecrest CPL, ND 0.6 SE
Mindshift by Think Tank Filter Case