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Looking west onto the foggy A99 Autobahn at the Ludwigsfeld exit.
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Looking east onto the A99 Autobahn at the Ludwigsfeld exit.
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Not even a single car in sight on the the A99 Autobahn at the Neuherberg exit. Usually this place has heavy traffic, even at night.
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Not too much traffic on the usually busy Munich Ring-Autobahn.
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I remember when taking this shot just how quiet it was in the wood. Normally you hear far away voices from people out walking dogs, the chatter of birds, the rustling of squirrels darting around the trees or deer gently moving through the undergrowth. But not this time, it was if the mist had laid a sound blanket across the area. A great atmosphere to get the imagination racing, naturally spoilt as soon as I lumbered off :)
Don't usually take picture of insects ... came across this one while walking towards Royal Gorge Bridge. A 10 yr. old spotted only because it was moving!
There are still some remnants of Autumn clinging on to the bitter end and the weather was certainly bitter with a heavy frost all around. But once amongst the warmth of the conifers that line the sides of this small valley, pockets of resistance could still be found. I feel this shot shows on the one side the chill of a winters morning whilst the other the green and welcoming lure of the conifers all lit by the morning sun.
Ravensbourne University Building, London, England
Another Open House London has come and gone last week, didn't seem that long ago I was down in the capital doing the same things last year.
My apologies for not getting my Open House photos uploaded sooner as I know some of you have been keen to see them but I have been so busy since coming back from Open House I haven't had chance to edit the photos until recently.
This is looking out from one of the portals within the Ravensbourne University building next to the O2, is the building with circles all over it, you can't miss it!
For the first time ever, the whole Open House London experience was a little disappointing. Don't get me wrong, some tours were excellent like this one at Ravensbourne where you got to know the finest detail of every part of the building but other places I visited were such a let down. For example Lloyds Register building. My girlfriend and I queued first thing to get in but still was around 30 mins and I was looking forward to seeing the modern part of the building. We were allowed in on opening time then to be ushered through a small art gallery and then to the older part of the building, there was no chance of seeing or photographing the Richard Rogers part of the building. Other places got cancelled at last minute, upon arriving at one venue for roof top tours we found a small sign to say that they had been cancelled!
Luck wasn't on my side with regard to pre book events this year so I wanted to really try hard at places that didn't need pre booking but another disappointment was to happen. We went to Somerset house to go on a tour of the building and no where in the guide said you had to pre book the tour. Upon arriving we were told the tour was fully booked, that word booked!! How is it fully booked when it was a first come first served basis? It seemed they were advertising the fact they were doing the your and normal visitors to Somerset House could go on it too as well as Open House visitors which I didn't think was right. We did manage to get on another tour which was the film tour, not my first choice by any means but was very enjoyable.
Sadly this year I have heard similar stories from other Open House visitors and photographers, don't get me wrong I still got a few good photos but felt that some of the tours were not as good as other years that I have been on.
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Ravensbourne (formerly the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication) is a university sector college in the field of digital media and design, with a vocationally focused portfolio of courses, spanning fashion, television and broadcasting, interactive product design, architecture and environment design, graphic design, animation, moving image, music production for media and sound design.
Ravensbourne, which was formerly Bromley Technical College, was opened in 1959 by the amalgamation of the Bromley School of Art and the Department of Furniture Design of the Beckenham School of Art. It was originally located at Bromley Common and Chislehurst in outer London before moving to a new purpose-built campus in inner London on the Greenwich Peninsula in September 2010.
In the Efteling we always visit the steam carrousel. (www.efteling.com/stoomcarrousel) The combination of Victorian style artwork and last century steam technique is always great. The kids just love the sound and speed!
A wintry scene looking down the lane from Newton to Rockhill, just south of Wick, Caithness, on 4/1/2025. The main A99 road is the black line crossing towards the top with the Burn of Newton and the trackbed of the former Wick and Lybster railway crossing the path just after the farm house on the right.
Once upon a time I went for a walk right after the summer rain. I saw the rainbow and followed it. To tell you the truth, chasing rainbows is a demanding challenge. It took me a long time, but finally I got to the end of the small beautiful rainbow. And the legend came true! I found a coin purse on top of the fence at the end of the rainbow. I made a decision not to touch the purse to let you the opportunity to find it. Just go outside after the rain and follow the rainbow. I'm sure you will find the same purse on the top of the blue pole at the end of the rainbow. Don't touch the purse, don't ruin the magic.
Something a bit different from me... Daylight! I recently had a day out with my friend, Sony advocate Alan Willis to his patch in hampshire. After placing something like £15,000 worth of camera gear on a tripod in the river (and potentially my job too), we waited all day in the hide for Arthur to turn up. He made us work for it, but just as we were about to give up he finally took to his new perch for a few minutes before catching a fish and flying off upstream.
Shot on A99 with 300mm f2.8.
1/80, ISO 320 @ f4.5
It was but a mere few shoots of rabbitbrush poking through the dry sands of Monument Valley. And while it was still a rocky desert early in September, that dawn, where I came across this brush thriving in the parched landscape, was still freezing cold.
I had paid a visit to Monument Valley a few years back, hoping to capture some of the magic of the wild West. But instead, what I came across were magnificent landscapes sculpted by the wind and the sand, with towering buttes constructed of red sandstone rising hundreds of feet from the rolling terrain below.
During this trip, a sunrise tour deep into the heart of this Navajo monument brought me face to face with some of its famous rocky denizens waiting to catch the morning light. After capturing the first rays of sunlight peeking through the sandstone buttes, I shifted over to the untouched sand-dunes, wherein I spotted these groups of rabbitbrush not just surviving, but thriving in this harsh landscape. The edge-lit sand-dunes provided the perfect foreground for this memorable scene, which I captured at ISO 1600, at F11 at 1/250s exposure.
Monument Valley Tribal Monument
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