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Decided to take a little road trip down to Sawley the other night to see what it had to offer - I've typically only photographed Sunrises & Sunsets there. It certainly didn't disappoint and gave me a great chance to road test the arrival of the correct wide angle lens for my new camera. I'm amazed at the detail this little Sony full frame and 16-35mm can capture - mirrorless is the future!
Another from earlier in the year in the bitterly cold West Highlands of Scotland.
Out for sunrise in Glen Etive and on the hunt for iced up pools of water, whilst the first didn't really happen to any effect, the second one certainly did and it was a case of just trying to get a decent one into a composition with the great snow capped mountain in the rear in the shot also.
A little splash of colour in the sky at dawn was about as much as the sky played ball this morning but the icy pool really sets off the mountain to the rear and the cloudy sky blocking the light I also feel adds quite a bit to the moody / coldness of the scene, the pool has already started to melt with the sun coming up and ten minutes later it would be gone almost completely.
Had a drive along shields last night . While the kids played on the sand I took a quick shot of the pipe.
I was in the Lake District just after New Year when all the storms were hitting the west coast. Generally the weather was terrible for getting out with the camera but there was a small dry spell so I headed down to meet an old friend (Ashness Jetty).
It was great to find it slightly submerged as it gave me the chance to get a different shot than I've previously taken. There was a little bit of end of day colour in the clouds and when I put the ten stop on they took on a slight purple tint which I think I like...
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It seems like ages since I uploaded any black and white images, and just looking it was actually back in November last year, so to break up the colour uploads I thought I'd share this one.
Taken back in February of this year this was a bitterly cold morning on the banks of Loch Lomond, with snow still on the mountains in the distance, not much of an issue if you are are just grabbing a passing shot, much more so though when your image exposure time runs into minutes, which with a heavily overcast day it was always going to as the ND filters were always going to be brought into play, jumping about near to the camera to keep warm wasn't an option for obvious reasons so I had to do it further along the shore, a few people were about walking their dogs, I don't know if they actually noticed the camera set up but needless to say I got a few strange looks..
Another shot from the Thames Barrier in Greenwich, with sunset rapidly approaching there was a good amount of golden soft light to play with, the lower light allowing a decent long exposure time, just showing of a lone section of the river defence, these to me are a very interesting and unusual architectural design, almost space age, and set against some recognisable shapes in the City make for some unusual images when coupled with a long exposure.
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Another day, and another kind of unplanned shoot in the remote Highlands of Iceland.
The weather in the morning had been poor asnd rainy so we headed for a location we had spotted an hours drive away in the hope it would break by the time we got there, which it did, we shot various locations along this river with this being the last, with the sun only rising very low in the sky in December you're only getting around 4 hours of sunlight, but if the clouds are right it's like 4 hours of 'golden hour'. We had spent so much time shooting here our chosen location for sunset was just too far away to drive to so we decided to shoot this location instead which as it happened worked out really really well, this happened on a few of the days as you just lose track of the time and the short time you actually have you may as well keep shooting rather than travel during the available light.
It seems a good while since I've done anything meaningful in Scotland, the first location in Aberdour was a total washout with the rain appearing from nowhere, in fact in 4 days in Fife I must have seen about 7 or 8 unpredictable sea storms just come rolling in. This was early evening and another is making it's way towards the East Neuk of Fife so I had to really rush to get here and set up before it hit, in the end I managed about 20 minutes of shooting here before yet again the entire area went black and the rains came, this would be the only day where I could do this location due to the weather and tides combining so I was made up to come away with some images of it at last, this time the storms working in my favour instead of against me.
Anyone who's shot this location will know how tricky it is balancing yourself and all your stuff on the narrow wall in the wind, with a concrete floor behind you and the sea in front it isn't somewhere you want to be falling off....
St Michael de Rupe church standing on the summit of Brentor.
Nikon D610/18-35mm.
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Every time I go downtown, the skies mysteriously turn clear it seems. I was hoping for more early morning cloud trails, but maybe next time.
Southwell Minster looking stunning the other night, lit up perfectly with the moon just behind it 🌙
A shot from the beginning of the year, just after sunrise but still very early morning, amidst the latest snowfall a lone gnarly tree stands within the vast Limestone pavement at Near Twistleton Scar, the tree remains in position despite it's isolated location it has withstood everything the weather has thrown at it. This was an absolute nightmare to walk out to, it's bad enough hopping on and off the pavement over the grikes normally but in snow / ice conditions it seemed to take forever, better to be slow and safe than disappear up there....
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Trwyn Du Lighthouse, Penmon Point North Wales.
It's been what seems an absolute age since I've been here and it wasn't part of the plan for today, I'd planned to do a third day at the utterly amazing abandoned quaryy at Dinorwic (photos to follow) however a wrng turn, and a total inabilty to pass anything steam train related (Welsh Highland Railway) saw me well off the route and looking for another option, so Anglesey it was....
A quick check on tide times told me what I wanted to now with a low incoming tide here, good chance of some nice foreground.. A quick wander around and this composition just literally jumped out at me, S curved path directly to the lighthouse and some great deep seaweed encrusted rockpools left full by the last tide.
While I was taking this a guy came wandering down and was just about to walk right in front of my set up.. I asked him to hang on for a minute, he said "'oh are you taking pictures too" I'm not sure how much more obvious I could have been as a photographer without maybe a huge red arrow over my head and a neon sign saying 'Hi I'm a photographer', neverthless he seemed to see that I was also taking pictures... once I was done he walked right down to the water line took his snap, and then made his way back.... I said to him, "do you not think it is a better image from here"? to which he replied "no, you are far too far away here", so that was me told, I packed up and retreated to the car. Brilliant.
Conclusion from this trip: I need to visit North Wales so much more as it is absolutely beautiful, and an equal drive time to the Lakes or North Yorkshire. And maybe I should stand closer....
Looking at images from a few of my contacts lately I've seen some great shots from up on Twistleton Scar and they made me really want to go back there for a days shooting, in the mean time I decided to revisit my images from my last trip there and see if I had anything I didn't process, as is pretty much always the case there were quite a few and it was enjoyable looking over them again, this one being one of my favourites.
It was seriously cold up here this morning as I remember and really treacherous underfoot with ice having formed on top of the Limestone Pavment under the snow some very careful footwork was needed getting to different locations, this one was shot not too long after sunrise and fort me pretty much sums up the area and the weather that day, bleak, unforgiving, but incredibly beautful nonetheless.
The colour version of this although nice in itself just doesn't convey the feeling of the image that the black and white one does, and I've noted any bw stuff for ages, definitely gonna make the effort to get back up here and get my bones frozen again soon.
Given the unfinished state of the new brand Forth Road bridge there was no way I was going pass an opportunity up to shoot this as once it's finished you cannot repeat this shot, another bout of rainstorms had appeared and one can be seen on the far shoreline at Dalmeny touching down, a break on the North Queensferry side allowed for this to be taken before it poured down yet again for the umpteenth time so I was really lucky to be able to get this in a tiny window of opportunity between the storms.
The work that is going into this is huge and it's very impressive stood below watching from the shoreline.
Captured on a recent sunrise shoot at Sawley Marina which is fast becoming my favourite location! Unfortunately I arrived too late missing the best of the sunrise, however I was able to snap some shots before the rising sun disappeared behind the clouds.
I've just had a great trip down onto the South Coast of Dorset, one of my favourite places in the UK and not somewhere I'd been to for ages, the trip was a mixture of photography and also a recce for locations as later in the year I hope to come back in Autumn and Winter.
Summer long days and weather aren't always ideal for photography but there's no better place to be than on the coast, life down here is really slow and very chilled out and it's not hard to fall into the I can't be bothered moving from this spot mentality ! This evening, although really pleasant had looked quite poor from a photography point of view with the sky being bereft of any cloud to catch possible sunset colours but I decided to have a go anyway as I'd picked up some new kit namely a new tripod/head and filter kit the day before so I wanted to test them out, the gear is absolutely fantastic and for anyone who may be interested, details can be found below in the text.
As it happened as sunset progressed clouds just magically appeared drifting through the scene allowing for the colours to display themselves right across the sky, the exposure time on this of eight and a half minutes has given the scene a truly surreal feel and allowed the colour in the sky to drag right the way across the frame. If you zoom in, The Isle of Wight can be seen on the horizon just off left of center.
It wouldn't be me though if there wasn't some form of blunder or mishap whilst shooting, and this day was absolutely no different... I was actually sat on the groyne here while I was shooting, I watched the Weymouth to Guernsey ferry go past about a mile in the distance, I remember thinking yeh that won't show up during these long exposures... what I didn't think about was that about 5 minutes later the wash off it would come pounding into the beach without warning, and yes, I got absolutely saoked and covered in seaweed, much to the amusement of some kids walking past on the promenade.... you'd think I'd learn having been done with this before but nooooo.
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Fotopro T-74C tripod
Fotopro LG-9R ballhead
Nisi V6 System
NiSi Landscape Cpl
Nisi 100mm 10 stop filter
Nisi 4 stop hard gnd
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Just had a great couple of days up in the Peak District scouting new locations and trying out the new camera for the first time, I wasn't especially lucky with the light on this trip at each end of the days but certainly came back with a few dramatic images from the afternoons, and a good list of new spots with potential for the next visit.
I hadn't planned to shoot here today but the contrasty light and dramatic nature of the sky when I was passing by changed my mind.
Naturally as soon as I had set up it started raining and with nowhere to shelter it was just a case of covering the camera up and getting wet for 5 minutes until it passed by, I often like the light that follows a rainstorm so it's worth hanging around rather then running for the nearest tree. it soon blew over and I was able to get my shot.
Nikon D850
Nikon 24-120 f/4 @ 65mm
Fotopro T-74C tripod
Fotopro LG-9R ballhead
Nisi V6 System
NiSi 100mm 10 stop filter
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A familiar location but something a bit different, you'll probably have seen this location shot with water flowing over the top, despite all the rain we've had lately the levels are right down at the moment leaving it totally exposed out of the water so I've gone super wide to get the lot in, and against a fairly angry sky makes for a quite unusual take on this place.
The set up for this was iffy to say the least with a lot of moneys worth of gear hanging over a wall pointing down with huge 150mm filters on the front, and the rear leg of the tripod rested (a bit precariously) on my camera bag to give extra height need to get right over the wall and looking down. While setting it up I had visions of the lot dropping off over the wall, but thankfully that didn't happen !
Even taking it down really had to be careful, bit of a hold your breath moment for sure!
Nikon D850
Nikon 14-24 F/2.8 @ 14mm
NiSi S5 System
NiSi 150mm 10 stop
NiSi 150mm 3 stop medium gnd
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Old Man of Muchalls Sea Stack
I had a couple of hours free this evening after dayshift so headed for my favourite sea stack for some photos. Luckily the higher tide and sunset time were in my favour and also I was lucky enough for there to be some fast moving clouds just at the time of this shot. I was surprised by the tones that appeared just at sunset. I think I have now lost count for my visits to this rocky Muchalls shore although this is the first time I have been here at the golden / blue hour. I used my phone apps for hyperfocal calculations and ND times. ☺ Taken at the exact time of Sunset on this evening.
I decided to take a last-minute trip to Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, Maryland. Beautiful weather as heavy, fast moving clouds were streaking by all day. Beautiful fall color also, but the vibrancy was lost a little due to minimal sun color.
Probably my favourite place I have visited in Iceland and an absolute playground for photography, you never quite know what you are going to get here.
We had come for sunrise this day whikle we did get some great light it wasn't a fiery one by any stretch of the imagination, but it really doesn't matter as what may lose in colour is usually more than compensated for in drama and mood.
The dunes here were unshootable this day due to howling winds and it whipping all the sand up everywhere, literally impossible conditions to shoot in, as there was a alot of wind and cloud about I decided to just hunket down somewhere shelterd and try and capture the cloud movement and mood of the scene at the far end where the sea meets the black beach.
Totally different from the shots I have got here previously and a location that leaves you in awe each time you get there.
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Finding this image by chance on the hard drive was definitely something of a 'poisoned chalice'...
I happened across this image and liked it straight away so I thought right time to get this one done... for someone who doesn't like to spend too long editing images this one was an absolute pain in the backside as it actually took several hours to do... nothing complicated about the image, no advanced or complicated methods needed, nope nothing like that... it was due to the sheer amount of dust spots on my camera sensor at this time! I don't think I've ever had an image as bad as this for dust spots, pollen, and crap on the filter / sensor which really shows up on long exposures such as this, as I remember I got this camera cleaned professionally after this shoot due to this...
This is 'Charlies Garden', a fantastic rock stock in the North Sea in Northumberland, this was shot just after sunset, the tide was just at the height I wanted and there were plenty of clouds about so this type of image was always in my mind.
At 3 minutes long it can be considered a really long exposure, I just wish it had taken that amount of time to process it!
Amusingly after I had done it, I found a PSD file in the folder which was titled 'unfinished dust spot nightmare', and when I opened it up it was this :-)
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Another from Fife, with surprise surprise yet another July sea storm brewing over the East Lothian area and heading toward the Fife Coast. A different take on it from the last one, with the long length of the jetty here I wanted to try a portrait format shot as well as it looked really good in camera, bit longer of an exposure with a 3 stop grad used for the sky, by the time I'd taken this and packed up for the climb down the ladder the rain was just starting to arrive, so a result, and a quick run back to the car on the harbour.... Berwick Law can be seem to the rear.
I'd thought about a black and white version for this but with the contrasty storm light the colours were pretty punchy so seems a waste to lose that for this one.
I'd never shot from this location before as the weather never really leant itself towards it but today with heavy overcast skies and the sun breaking through in parts I thought I'd give it a go in the late afternoon with the hope of getting the background fells illuminated if I could get a break in the cloud cover.
It was about a 30-40 minute wait to get this one and about 5 attempts as the clouds weren't playing ball, also a family arrived on the shore line followed by about 30 ducks who wanted feeding and decided to climb all over the jetty...
Eventually they moved on and the sun started to break through in bigger patches moving left to right across the fells with the cloud allowing me to get a decent part of the background bathed in sunlight against the dark clouds above.
It's a beautiful part of the lake and it wasn't a chore at all to just stand and wait here, excellent for a really good chill out spot, might start bringing bread and a fishing catapult to get rid of ducks though, they can spot potential food from miles away, and certainly aren't camera shy....
Again I was trying out the new Nisi filters, there is absolutely no colour correction needed on them at all, no colour cast and no dip in image quality, this was with a polariser, 10 stop filter and a 3 stop grad for the sky, absolutely superb, can't recommend them enough.
I've been after this shot for a good while now, timing was always going to be the key here along with when I was free, I'd planned to shoot it a week before this but the warm weather meant all the roads were heavily congested into the area with people heading for beaches....
This is the result of about 4-6 weeks weather watching, and this evening was the first night where it was going to be dry, not much wind, and where the (right height) tide, and Sunset were all pretty much aligned.
The high tide at under 7m was low enough not to swallow the entire hull of the boat so it was all systems go! Mike Tonge, and Mike Muddyboots decided to join me for an evenings shooting as well which was great.
I've been panicking a bit as the wrecked boat is due to be removed so this night was possibly my best or only chance at getting what I wanted, I ended up with 3 shots that I'm really happy with, so it's job done for this one.
Having been marooned since November 2019, Beached Yacht, 'Celestial Dawn' rests on her side at Lytham, on the Lancashire Coast..
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Explore #4 30/06/17
Just after dawn at Llandudno Pier, this has been on my list to do for seemingly forever but it never seems to fall right for me either with weather or tide times, or a combination of both on a day when I'm free.
As it happens this day I had been shooting the sunrise at Talacre (see last but one image) and instead of heading inland as planned I decided to visit here totally ad hoc as the tidal conditions looked promising although it was raining on and off.
Upon arrival the rain had stopped and the tide was heading out but still plenty of time to get down onto the beach, get set up low and get the sea surrounding the barnacle covered rocks with the cloud cover preventing any harsh light, giving this very tranquil looking scene with the old Victorian Pier stretching out through it. I managed 2 shots I really liked here this morning so well worth the diversion, there is a myriad of compositions to be had here I'll definitely be coming back here again.
The classic location of the boathouse at Pooley Bridge at Ullswater, having got here nice and early I wanted to try something a bit different, this was shot about 45 minutes before the sun came up, this scene was pretty much still black when I shot this so I was working in the dark with just a headtorch, the long exposure (just under 6 minutes) has lit the scene and a flashlight was used for to bring the foreground in several times over the course of the exposure. No filters needed at this time of the day. A little bit of guesswork required with the precise composition but it worked out.
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Explore #2 - 29/07/17
Another image from the ridiculously early start at Talacre, North Wales, the bright pink sky only lasted a few minutes and was gradually replaced by deep blues, the remnants of it can be seen vanishing into the left hand corner of the frame.
The tide hadn't long since gone out so there were totally unspoiled, footprint free fresh patterns in the sand still with water in, making an ideal lead into the scene in the same direction as the wind / cloud movement, allowing the lighthouse to be positioned between both for the effect I wanted.
I'm not sure if this lighthouse is ever going to be done up but as you can see it's got a bit of a lean to it and is badly in need of a lick of paint with not much white remaining on it now! I titled the image to have a double meaning as it struck me that while I chose a long exposure to give me the look I wanted, the very long exposure time that the lighthouse has endured in all weathers has caused it to look the way it does too.
Another visit here with the tide in is on the cards for sunrise, but later in the year when the times are a little more sociable!
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A very early morning shoot at Llandudno and it's splendid Victorian Pier, after spending a few hours asleep in the car (Top tip - don't ever try sleeping in an Abarth 595) following shooting Comet Neowise on Angelsey the previous evening.
The mornings sunrise here wasn't bad at all but the light was never going to last very long due to the massive bank of clouds just above the horiizon, I decided to do a long exposure here as although the clouds were moving very slowly, there in theory should be plenty of cloud movement across the scene with a heavily filtered setup vastly reducing the light, giving me a nice long exposure time, which was the case.
I though about removing the wind turbine in the distance from the image but have left them in as I think they contrast well in the very brightest part of the image, and to be honest I don't really mind them.
The Pier gets extremely busy during the day with 100's of people on it at any one time, so it was great to see it so peaceful and eerily deserted.
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