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The Giant's Causeway, one of the world's most famous and iconic coastal locations and I can see why. This image was captured last night on my second day of seven that I am currently spending here in Ireland. The sun provided some lovely colour as well as lighting up the basalt rocks in the foreground.
The Giant's Causeway for those who do not know is an area consisting of around 40,000 interlocking columns of basalt rock that were created as a result of volcanic activity some 60 million years ago. Quite incredible isn't it? The National Trust own and manage the site.
I am here in Ireland recceing locations for two brand new workshops that will have me assisted by Irish born and bred Bernard Geraghty of Bernard Geraghty Landscape Tours.
Bernard will be my official tour guide for both workshops as his extensive knowledge of the locations is unrivalled and he will be our driver for the duration in his nine-seater VW Shuttle minibus. The plans at this stage will include a four-day North,North-West workshop this September followed by a five-day Wild Atlantic Way workshop on the west coast next March 2018.
If you would like to register your interest, please email me at info@melvinnicholson.co.uk and I will add your name to the list. You will be notified first once the workshops have been created within the next couple of weeks and as such, be offered the first chance of booking ahead of release of social media.
Huge thanks to Bernard Geraghty for his company these last two days and for showing me around his beautiful island. Bernard is a true Irish gent, loves his landscape photography and shares the same passion that I possess in delivering the best possible experience to our clients hence why I am delighted to have Bernard.working with me. www.facebook.com/BernardGeraghtyLandscapeTours
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f14
1/4 secs
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Haida 0.9 Hard ND Grad filter
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After a successful and enjoyable day's photography down at Elgol today, we were driving back to the cottage when I saw a sheep standing all alone on the top of a ridge.
I immediately parked up and reached for my 70-200mm lens. No sooner had I composed, when two additional sheep came and joined their mate. Now I had three of the buggers looking straight at me. I framed them equally against the freshly fallen snow covered fell behind them.
Within a minute or two they started banging heads and charging each other. It was certainly an interesting discussion that they were having before they retreated into their own little world out of our prying eyes.
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Canon 70-200mm f4 @ 180mm
f4
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My final morning on Skye last Saturday culminated in a spectacular fiery sunrise that took place directly over the Island of Raasay. After a week of rain, it was magical to witness the sky looking like fire. I was in my element.
Not long after I left Skye for the rather dryer and snow covered peaks of Glencoe in preparation for my four day workshop which starts this Thursday. Skye for all of its challenges, still offers the most amazing chances to capture on camera something extraordinary and just a fleeting moment of light on a stormy day is all that I need to be content. Moments. It's what we strive to photograph. Enjoy it. Embrace it. Live it.
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Captured on the 19th October 2020, this viewpoint is one of my favourite sunset locations in the Vrsic Pass area. This timelapse was filmed from hairpin Number 17 at 1,418 metres above sea level.
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If there's one thing that I love shooting, it's coastal scenes. Water is something that excites me, especially the ocean because it's in a constant state of movement. I have so many options in deciding how to shoot the ocean, short exposure, long exposure or perhaps quick exposure (just as you see it with your own eyes).
If you throw into the mix a sea stack or two, I am one happy Melvin. I grew up in Blackpool, the home of three piers which also offer me many different options when shooting them (they're only twenty minutes from where I live in Preston) but the wonders of the natural.landscape simply cannot be beaten.
I have started to write a blog on my travels around Ireland from a couple of weeks ago and I hope to have that ready to read by Friday night but until then, please enjoy this scene and try to imagine sitting there on the edge of the cliff looking down on what mother nature has given us. For me, I could not have been happier.
Have a great Thursday everyone.
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20 secs
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Luskentyre Beach, Isle of Harris. Arguably one of the finest beaches in the world and it has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Best Beaches in the World in the past. www.visitscotland.com/blog/outer-hebrides/harris-beach-na...
The soft, golden sandy beach stretches on for some distance and as far as the eye can see. There's a real feeling of peace and tranquillity here and the idyllic look of this photograph does not do the place justice really. You NEED to go and visit it for yourself.
I spent a glorious week on the island back in mid-January this year and personally I feel in love with the place, especially the beaches on Harris. This photograph allowed me to finish an epic trip to somewhere new with a fantastic location as it kind of has me send of the place in style and this wonderful beach awaited me during my week spent on the island.
My verdict on the Isle of Lewis and Harris?
This is my first time of visiting and it has been an education and a real pleasure in discovering the many different sides and locations of this fine island. I have found it to be remote, desolate in parts, much larger than I first thought with some quite outstanding beaches, sea stacks and rocky outcrops. It really does feel different to the mainland, very earthy, no-nonsense way of living but seemingly free of complications and modern life and actually that isn't a bad thing.
I hope you have all enjoyed my photos and exploits from Lewis and Harris and I have shot a video of me shooting a coastal scene. You can see it here on YouTube. Feel free to SUBSCRIBE if you wish.
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Canon 24-70mm f4 @ 26mm
f8
1 secs
IS50
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This stunning snow scene is the summit of the 700,000yr old, 3,937 feet stratovolcano that lies on the Snæfellsnes peninsula on the western side of Iceland.
I had finished shooting the lovely little fishing harbour of Arnarstapi at sunrise when I saw this scene walking back to the car. I love the diagonal lines of the Mt. Stapafell on the left-hand side which to me contrasted with the gorgeous, soft meringue-like texture of the volcano behind it.
Iceland has the huge WOW moments that simply take your breath away but equally as important to me are these wonderful fleeting moments that help to create a memory that will for me last a lifetime. I captured this during my eight days I was shooting solo in March of this year.
Iceland really is the gift that keeps on giving. If you have never been, I strongly urge you too and ideally with me in October when I'll be running my next eight-day workshop out there.
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I love this lovely old wrecked boat that nestles on the sandy beach at Bunbeg. On this visit earlier in May, the tide was incoming and was surrounding the boat on our arrival.
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f8
1/125 secs
ISO100
LEE 0.6 Medium ND Grad filter
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While I freely acknowledge that I am no wildlife photographer, I do on the odd occasion have a desire to capture on camera something that tinkles me and that definitely includes the hairy Highland Coos (cows).
I, like many people, find them hugely photogenic and they seem to possess an outgoing character not really seen in regular cows. Mind you, have eight of them surrounding your minibus once on location and have them bellow and growl (do these cows growl? lol), then they take on a different look, definitely more menacing than the cute facial hair would show.
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Canon 70-200mm f4 @ 200mm
f4
1/125 sec
ISO400
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Phew, I'm not saying that it was rough down at Seahouses this morning but me and my clients were very grateful for the shelter that the gunpowder house gave on the wonderful rocky coastline of the small harbour village.
The skies were so impressive, huge swathes of dark clouds rolled in bringing with it copious amounts of water but for all of the challenges that these kind of conditions brings, it also brings with it some fantastic opportunities to capture on camera the raw power of the ocean.
Here's a fantastic rocky channel that fills up with water before hitting the blowhole behind me and the water shouts up in the air as too much water tries to crash through too small a hole.
We're off to Holy Island late this morning for a few hours. Should be fun. Have a great day folks
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Canon 16-35mm f4 @ 19mm
f10
0.4 seconds
ISO50
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I was up at Blea Tarn yesterday running a landscape photography workshop for four people when I decided to take them to this lovely little gem of a place. It's a stunning little series of waterfalls along the beck of Bleamoss that empties from Blea Tarn. It's only a ten-minute walk from the main tarn and yet I wonder how many people know of its existence?
I was demonstrating to Sue how to capture this scene safely and effectively. Crouching down on the rocks over the edge of the twenty-foot drop takes careful planning as you don't want to go over but the views are beautiful. I love this waterfall that comes in from the bottom right corner of the image only to hit the rock below and bounce back right.
The colours were wonderful too and in the overcast conditions, they seemed to be so vibrant. Definitely an area worth exploring in more detail. I hope you all like it :D
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f11
1/3 sec
ISO100
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WOW, what a place the Butt of Lewis is. Yes, it's a pain in the 'butt' to reach as it is located right at the very top of the Outer Hebrides but boy is the drive worth it.
This shot was taken back in November last year while leading the first of two back-to-back workshops on the island. I was demonstrating how to take several images while focusing through the various lengths of the frame with the view of stacking them together in Photoshop CC in a technique called Focus Stacking.
This particular image only has three frames stacked together and it was necessary to focus stack as the foreground interest in the grass and rocks that you can see were only around 12" away from me. I was positioned as low down as I could go while maintaining a safe position from the edge.
It is a location that you could spend all day at should you ever decide to visit.
I am really looking forward to returning to Harris and Lewis to run two back to back workshops in November. If you're interested in joining me (assuming that everything is back to normal by then. Fingers crossed), click on the link below for details.
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Bloody hell, this image ranks in my top three most difficult locations I have photographed EVER!!!
Having visited this wonderful 130ft cave waterfall three days before last Saturday for the first time, my workshop clients and I vowed to revisit sunset on the following Tuesday instead as it was too busy to capture it without people. So imagine our surprise on arriving in the dark on the Tuesday evening to find a dozen people in there all trying to shoot selfies, lol.
Anyway, the sheer constant water that was being blown straight into our faces had them bid a hasty retreat. We then very quickly got to work by setting up the cameras complete with see through shower caps covering the camera for it was literally like standing under a shower. The constant stream of water drenched us through and beyond the capabilities of the waterproof clothing and yet the Canon 5D MK4 coped amazingly well.
So here is my final image showcasing this wonderful waterfall that drops down into a cave. It was shot at ISO800 so it's a little noisy but I do not care, I finally captured this waterfall a little differently to the vast majority of the shots seen on social media. I used an LED Lenser head torch to light up the water and surrounding rock walls.
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I love black and white images and in particular black and white images in a square format (inspired by Steve Gosling's work www.stevegoslingphotography.co.uk/) so here's one from my two day workshop in Northumberland last weekend.
Craster is a little fishing harbour village located thirteen miles south of Bamburgh. It has a little fantastic kipper smokehouse where you can buy the famous 'Craster Kipper' as well as a harbour that has a few boats lining its banks such as these two.
I like the inclusion of the harbour wall in the background, situated high enough to stay clear of the boats and with little detail in the sky, it made for a strikingly simple image.
I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend.
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Canon 24-70mm f4 @ 35mm
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30 secs
ISO50
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I was assisting my 1-2-1 client yesterday down at Ashness Bridge when having made sure that Andrew bagged himself a beauty, I then shot this scene. Andrew saw the potential in the scene that you can see and between us, we ended up with this composition of this lovely old stone packhorse bridge.
It is located on the road to Watendlath which starts opposite the iconic Ashness Landing Pier. The bridge is very tight and care must be taken when driving over it yet it draws large numbers of people daily who want to capture it on camera. I'm happy enough with the composition.
What do you think?
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Canon 16-35mm f4 @ 33mm
f11
1.6 secs
ISO200
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I love sand patterns and there are few beaches that provide a better opportunity to capture them than Skagsanden in beautiful Lofoten in Norway.
This was taken during my photo tour back in October. I could sit and look at this image for hours. It was taken during the very last throws of light during dusk and I managed to get the tripod set up before the light fell altogether.
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Canon 16-35mm f4 @ 35mm
f8
30 secs
ISO400
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This has to be one of my favourite images I have shot this year. Why?
Well, despite having visited Cathedral Cavern numerous times before (a gorgeous huge man-made slate cavern/cave in the Lake District) I felt that I was able to find something 'new' to capture on camera and the feeling I get when I have managed to come away with something that 'works' and sits well with me, is fantastic.
Whilst I was leading a two-person workshop yesterday, I felt in the 'zone' whilst showing two regular clients around this impressive hidden gem. The light was strong enough to pull out the detail, shapes, contours, detail and colours out of the rocks and foliage but not too strong as to completely overwhelm the place. Light is such an important element of landscape photography, in fact for me, THE most important element that quite often, a location that you visit often can look so different depending on the time of day/month/year you visit as well as the different weather conditions you can experience.
That's just one of the reasons why I love being a full-time, professional landscape photographer.
I am running a couple of workshops in the Lake District later this year.
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Taken during a one-day workshop I was leading on Sunday 16th July 2017 in the really beautiful part of North Wales.
I saw these two wonderful trees by the side of the river and realised that by standing in the middle of the river itself, that both trees would lift themselves clear of their surroundings and stand free within the blue sky.
The water that I was stood in was around 8" in depth and the power was so evident as I could feel it constantly push against me but I am pleased that I carried on until I was really happy with that I came away with.
I hope you all like the image. Feel free to share it if you wish
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Canon 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm
f13
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Beach Life, Rethymno, Crete, Greece
I so enjoyed my week long trip to the beautiful island of Crete in Greece back in April 2019 (seems like a lifetime ago now). I recently came across this image and it reminded me of that wonderful morning spent in Rethymno where the sun shone and the skies never looked bluer.
I arrived at the Venetian harbour at 6.30am to photograph the lighthouse at sunrise (7.10am), and it was a lovely sunrise and as Rethymno is such a lovely city, I opted to stay on and shoot the beach until mid-morning.
One of the things that I love about the beaches in popular tourists destinations abroad is that there is an awful lot to photograph, with so many different subjects on offer. I settled on this beach hut complete with the palm tree and just as I had set up, two chaps walked down and started getting out some cleaning equipment. I don't mind admitting that initially I was cursing them under my breath for getting in my shot but as the minutes rolled by, I saw them as a great opportunity to capture them in action.
I did not want the conventional shot of two guys washing down the hut so I opted to set the shutter speed to 20 seconds with a Kase 10 Stop ND filter attached and the effect was exactly what I was wanting. A creative image of the guys going about their business while being completely unrecognisable and I love the ghostly effect that the filter has allowed me to get.
What are your thoughts? Hit or miss? I would be interested to know.
As for Crete, I first visited the stunning island back in 1999 and returned in 2010 and again in 2019. There's a quality about the island that draws me back time after time and I seriously enjoy the scenery, the people, the harbour-lined cities that allow you to sit there with a coffee and watch the world go by.
Then there are the White Mountains that divide the north of the island from the south in the west of the island and at 8,000ft, they are covered in snow until late spring (hence the name) but wow, it is sure a spectacular drive.
Crete is a place that I might run a future workshop there, perhaps in April 2022.
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I forgot to post this image weeks ago of Crummock Water as taken on my recent four-day Lake District workshop in the Lakes at the end of October.
I decided to take my clients to Crummock Water mid afternoon as I knew that the light would illuminate this beautiful little island and have it stand out among the darker backdrop of Mellbreak Fell behind.
I walked to the highest point of the surrounding land in order to give me enough elevation to have the tips of the trees on the island rest lower than the waterline of Mellbreak behind. I love isolating my subjects within water, be it a jetty, trees or even an island.
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There are sunrises that you witness and photograph that have you feel so blessed to be alive to experience them. I had such a morning on Wednesday when I arrived at the harbour at Rethymno pre-dawn to decide on a composition of the lighthouse framed by the archway of the Tourist Information Office (which I captured) but it was this one in particular had that me a little excited.
Why? Because once I had blocked the rising sun behind the Cretan date palm tree (Phoenix Theophrasti for those interested) and realised that the branches would frame both the lighthouse and the streetlight from above, I knew the shot would work.
So this is the lovely little harbour of Rethymno where cafes and restaurants line the water's edge while small boats bob up and down in the water. Arrive pre-dawn and you pretty much have the place to yourself bar the odd reveller who are making their way back to base after a night on the tiles.
I love cities and towns pre-dawn because I get to experience them at their quietest. It's a very special time to be out and about with your camera.
Little wonder why I cannot wait to return April 2020 to run a workshop there. If you are interested in joining me, give me a shout and I shall put you on the waiting list when more information becomes available which will be around Thursday/Friday.
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WOW, what a day to choose to run a one day workshop in the glorious Yorkshire Dales yesterday. I got to enjoy some stunning weather with three clients of mine and the buttercups, stone barns and the rolling green dales of Yorkshire never looked so good.
The scene in this photo awaits you on walking through a few houses in the very centre of the village of Muker. Go through the gate and stand and admire such beauty. The buttercups are out at this time of the year but not for long. The sight of a million yellow flowers helps bring the scene alive and I am so thankful that we all got to appreciate the fine views before today's rain.
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WOW, what another stunning day in Lancashire, that's two in a row now. I spent yesterday on a 1-2-1 tuition day on the Blackpool/Fleetwood coast and the same today while leading a one-day long exposure workshop for four people.
Central Pier is easily my favourite of the three that adorn the Blackpool seafront and it dates back to 1863 which makes it 154 years old. Quite an achievement considering the battering it takes during the winter period but on a gorgeous day like today, it looks fantastic. It has several rides on top including the magnificent ferris wheel which I have caught here at just four seconds which gives it a look of motion which I like.
Have a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend everyone. I hope you enjoy whatever you have planned. Me? Staying home watching F1 from Monaco (I'm a huge F1 fan).
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This wonderful volcanic crater lake was first brought to my attention by a lovely lady who worked at a guesthouse that I stayed at March 2017. She had seen a photograph taken by Icelandic local photographer Sigurdur William Brynjarsson that featured a blazing display of the aurora borealis reflected in the water of the crater. It certainly was quite colourful.
Here's a link to Sigurdur's photo apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170306.html
And Sigurdur's 500px Page
Sadly I did not have time to visit it last year but I did on Wednesday afternoon as I was driving my clients back to the airport town of Keflavik so we stopped off for an hour to shoot it.
According to Wikipedia, it is one of several crater lakes in the area, known as Iceland's Western Volcanic Zone. It was created as the land moved over a localised hotspot, but it is the one that has the most visually recognisable caldera still intact. The caldera, like the other volcanic rock in the area, is composed of a red (rather than black) volcanic rock. The caldera itself is approximately 55 m (180 ft) deep, 170 m (560 ft) wide, and 270 m (890 ft) across. Kerid’s caldera is one of the three most recognisable volcanic craters because at approximately 3,000 years old, it is only half the age of most of the surrounding volcanic features. The other two are Seyðishólar and Kerhóll.
While most of the crater is steep-walled with little vegetation, one wall is sloped more gently and blanketed with a deep moss, and can be descended fairly easily. The lake itself is fairly shallow (7–14 metres, depending on rainfall and other factors), but due to minerals from the soil, is an opaque and strikingly vivid aquamarine.
There is a charge to walk around it during the daytime (approx £3.00) but it's free once the car park closes and you can park outside of the gates and off the road so there's no problem in parking.
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This photo is a panorama of five vertical images stitched together in Photoshop CC and it was taken last night at the end of a six-hour twilight workshop I ran at Salford Quays. This place is a hub of activity and has so many buildings to photograph including the Imperial War Museum, and the two bridges (one of which you can see in the distance on the left).
I love this place once the sun sets and the lights come on and in fact, I love shooting cities at night in general. I have not done a lot of it recently but I might venture out near midnight on an odd night and reacquaint myself with the art of nighttime cityscapes :D
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Well, what a day I've had today. Me and my good friend Tony Higginson decided to leave Preston at 6am and head for Hodge Close and Holme Fell for sunrise only the road conditions were bloody awful and we failed to get through Windermere due to the main road being impassable (it had not been snow ploughed so there were so many cars being abandoned).
So we decided to take the A591 from Levens to Coniston instead and that road was no problem at all. The main issue was driving the two mile long road to Hodge Close and we ended up parking the car up by the road (we did not block it) and walk the mile and a half.
The shot I wanted was to capture the beautiful small tarn on Holme Fell all frozen over and if there was snow on top, all's the better. My wish was granted on arriving and I got to work in setting up a composition before firing off seven vertical images to be stitched together in Photoshop CC.
The light was flat with the occasional bout of sun but the sky was fantastic. It look heavy laden with more snow and it set off the scene beautifully. So here's my final edit of a great visit to a lovely part of the Lake District. Strangely enough the long walk back to the car felt like an eternity but knowing that a full cooked English breakfast was to follow soon after helped to keep our spirits up, lol.
Anyway, I shall edit a couple more images from today shortly and I shall share them once completed. I hope you all had a great day. Thanks to Tony for another cracking day out with the cameras :D
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I have been saving this image for tonight, Christmas Eve as a tribute to Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and of course Ruldoph. I spotted this wonderful view of the reindeer slowly moving across the vast snowy landscape way back in February. It's been a long ten months for me, lol.
The scene reminded me of camels in the desert and having ridden them in the middle of the Australia Outback, I can assure you that the reindeer are safer having me some distance from them, ha, ha.
Have a wonderful Christmas everyone
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Beautiful light bathes Swanage Bay in Dorset during the summer of 2021.
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So on this particular morning I discovered a wonderful place called Lake Hayes, which is around a ten minute drive north east of Queenstown. OMG, if the NZ government would allow me to live in New Zealand and if I had around £3 million in the bank, I'd live here in a heartbeat (no chance then, lol).
It's a stunning lake that has joggers, walkers and cyclists as well as an official rowing team that train on the lake. The views are sensational with the lake surrounded by snow capped mountains.
I SO WANT TO LIVE HERE 😲😲😲
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Me and my workshop client Alan only had one morning in Wanaka to capture the tree and the sunrise in general and this morning it was it so imagine our delight when the sky looked as though it caught fire.
We arrived at That Tree at 6.15am, ninety minutes before sunrise only to find two photographers already on location. So we set up and waited for the sunrise to happen while other people arrived to do the same. The sunrise appeared to happen and the colour seemed to fade away, so much so, that I actually packed up my camera equipment.
Ten minutes later, the sky started to turn red, then orange then a whole range of colours and then BANG, the sky seemed to catch fire. What a pleasure to be out on such a morning.
P.S. the colours are genuine and have not been enhanced in Photoshop CC.
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This location is one of the most fascinating places I have visited in New Zealand, partly because it is so unusual and unexpected.
This panoramic image that I edited earlier today of these outstanding natural clay cliffs en-route to Mt Cook National Park. This place is spellbinding and HUGE.
Basically, these clay cliffs are tall pinnacles separated by narrow ravines and are made up of layers of gravel and silt, originally formed by the flow from ancient glaciers over a million years ago. OVER A MILLION YEARS AGO. WOW.
It is difficult to appreciate the sheer size of these towering pinnacles as there is nothing in shot to give you a sense of scale so here is a drone video I found on YouTube by Y2J Does Asia.Skip the first thirty seconds of him chatting to the French couple and watch in awe as he pilots the drone of some of the most stunning scenery I have come across in New Zealand. I LOVE THIS PLACE.
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To capture this shot (which incidentally is made up of eleven vertical images stitched together in Photoshop CC), I had to climb up to a narrow ridge which runs high up and down the centre of these pinnacles. I am looking outwards over the terrain as opposed to the shot I took last September where I stood at the opening looking in. This place is absolutely bloody stunning. Looks like New Zealand delivered once again and yes this location will feature on my April 2020 workshop.
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Taken during my two week visit to the south island of New Zealand in September in preparation for a ten day landscape photography workshop that I am running there May 2019.
Glenorchy was a fantastic little town that comprises a couple of pubs, a church, Post Office, a church, a museum and perhaps the world's smallest library.
According to www.newzealand.com/uk/article/6-free-top-spots-in-glenorchy/
The lady of the lake "The Earnslaw" use to be a reliant source for feight and livestock between Queenstown & Glenorchy prior to the road been opened between in the early 1960's. The gorgeous and iconic railway shed beside the wharf is well worth taking a peep inside for historical tidbits & photographs on its walls.
All I know is that it sure was a popular place to visit and getting a shot without people in it took a certain amount of patient (make that a LOT of patience, lol) and determination. I did not even have to ask people to stand to the side. You really need to see this place and of course doing so on a gorgeous spring day complete with pure blue skies made the visit all the more memorable.
I hope you all like it.
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The Amazing Triaigh Ghearadha (Garry Beach) and one of the Caisteal a' Mhorair Sea Stacks, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Coordinates 58.366654, -6.215870
There is something wonderful, mesmorising and exciting about the ocean that I am drawn to. For me, it's a living, breathing entity and in the same way as lone trees, I feel compelled to visit them, photograph them, experience them and remember them. Photographs in part, for me, are permanent reminders to accompany the memories that I have.
This rock is one of a few that stand proud on Garry Beach on the east coats of the Isle of Lewis and I fell in love with this location for there were so many compositions to absorb and capture on camera that I barely knew where to start. Time and plenty of it is what was required to fully discover this amazing corner of the island.
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Here's an image that I have only just edited from my wonderful day spent in Edinburgh last September with my good friends Mark Wilson, Drew Moffat and Douglas Mackay. I was treated to a personal fourteen-hour tour guide of the city and also The Kelpies too.
Calton Hill is one of the most popular parts of the city and is often visited by photographers and visitors alike to watch the city transform from day into night from an elevated position. It's a magical time of the day to see all the lights come on and see the city light up. If you have never just sat there for an hour or so, soaking up the laughter and good-natured and friendly banter with strangers who are all there wanting to witness the same thing as you, then go and do it. It's wonderful.
I hope you enjoy the photo as much as I did in capturing it and please feel free to share if you wish. Thank you :D
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What a beautifully subtle yet strong sunset this evening up at Duntulm on the far north of Skye. In the distance you can see the Isle of Lewis which is where I shall be heading tomorrow.
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30 secs
ISO50
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Whilst stood on the beach this morning with my friend Ken, I looked over and saw this wonderful series of buildings that somehow had me think it looked very Italian.
I waited for the right cloud structure to form as well as deciding to shoot the scene using long exposure to soften the water and the clouds and I love how it has come out.
What are your views? I'd love to hear them :D
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f9
20.secs
ISO100
Nisi 0.6 ND Hard Grad filter
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Killer Whales & Sea Eagles, Lofoten, Norway
WOW. I am just looking back through my many images and short videos of my Lofoten workshop in November 2019. My six lovely clients and I had the absolute privilege to witness a pod of killer whales and a dozen sea eagles in a fjord in Lofoten, Norway just down the road from where our workshop house is.
I was driving down a side road to a new location that promised some amazing views of nearby mountains across the water when one of my clients noticed some activity of sea eagles above the water. This prompted us to pull the minibus over and set up the cameras only to find two pods of killer whales (Orcas) circling the water in two areas in order to eat the fish in a process called 'carousel feeding'.
“The Orcas have to stop the fish from diving, so they force them to the surface and keep them there in a ball by circling around them.”
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It was utterly fascinating to spend nearly an hour watching them work together in order to feed while the Sea Eagles constantly swooped down to feed on the dead fish themselves. What an incredible experience it was and one that I shall never forget.
Here's a capture of some gorgeous light and colour in the sky while nature went about its business.
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I captured this while on a photo day out with Tony Higginson Landscape Photography on Saturday. Thirlmere is a part of the Lake District that I have yet to fully discover and I really enjoyed spending a few hours just wandering around down by the wonderful shoreline in the mist.
These trees stood out to me with their beautiful colours which radiated in the swirling mist that enveloped them.
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I thought that I would share this image with you all today while I continue to edit my images from the more iconic locations on the south island of New Zealand in preparation for writing a blog on my experience of my two weeks in the stunning country last week.
So here's a scene that I spotted while driving out of Wanaka. This wonderful tree stands up high on a hillock and I decided to position it perfectly centrally between two snow capped mountains in Mt Aspiring National Park.
It was sure a stunning sight. Have a great day everyone :and feel free to share if you wish D
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f11
1/160 secs
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Sunrise at Moraine Lake in Alberta. Probably the most famously photographed lake in the world, but for good reason! This was taken with a Canon Canada 5D Mark III and a Canon 16-35 f/4 L IS lens on my Really Right Stuff TVC-24L tripod. The other super important thing is that I was using a set of Formatt Hitech Filters. A circular polarizer to cut down the glare on the water, and a 3-stop graduated filter to hold back the exposure in the top half of the image. Gear appropriately carried in my MindShift Gear First Light pack! ift.tt/2a5ZYBP - uploaded from ift.tt/Zaxgq2
Swanage Bay, Dorset, 2021.
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1/10 second at F11 @ ISO160 at 28mm in Manual mode
Canon 60D
Canon EF28-135mm F3.5-F5.6 IS
Manfrotto 190 XDB
Optechusa Camera Strap
Format Hitech Firecrest Polarizer
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Just when I thought I had seen it all, Lewis goes and shows me something extraordinary in the form of Garry Beach at Tolsta. On first arriving this one mile sandy beach looks idyllic, calming and unspoiled then you spot the amazing sea stacks of Caisteal a' Mhorair and I feel like a child on Christmas morning, all excited and restless.
How on earth am I supposed to do the outstanding scenery justice. It really was mindblowing. In the end I decided to shoot six vertical portrait format frames with the intention of stitching them together to create one hell of a panorama.
Just as I set up,. a huge hailstone storm hit leaving the entire beach completely white which I have to confess looked amazing. The tide was coming in reasonably quickly so a quick set up and capture to ensure that the beach retained its whiteness.
I hope you all enjoy it
Canon 5D MK4
Canon 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm
f13
1/8 sec
IS100
6 images stitched together
Nisi 0.6 ND Medium Grad filte
Benro TMA48CXL Mach 3 Tripod
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My third and final image that I took on Friday after spending the day hiking fourteen miles up Catbells (1,479ft), High Spy (2,142ft) and Dale Head (2,470ft) alongside Derwentwater in the Lake District and I have to say that my body was broken but my mind was strong and the sense of satisfaction and achievement immense.
The Lake District has enjoyed several weeks of pure blistering sunshine and temperatures in the mid to high 20's yet today (on the day that I go with a friend of mine), the rain came down, the temps plummeted to around 14 degrees and the wind picked up and the whole scene of Causey Pike from Catbells looked incredibly threatening but I would always take these kind of conditions over pure blue skies and no clouds any day of the week.
I took up my Canon 5D MK4 DSLR complete with the Benro Angel carbon fibre travel tripod (FTA28CV1) and it was bloody fantastic. Small and compact, lightweight, strong and stable even in the wind. I took this image using it. Amazing piece of kit. Super impressed.
Well it's time for a shower now and something to eat followed by relaxing in front of the TV and falling asleep no doubt. The fancy piece of watch tech on Trish's wrist recorded that we had walked 29,000 steps and 22.48km. Phew. Night all :D
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Canon 24-70mm f4 @ 24mm
f13
1/40 sec
ISO100
Edited in Camera RAW, Photoshop CC & Nic Analogue & Colour efex
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This was my first time shooting with the Mindshift Panorama and the Filter Hive. It made working with the tripod and filters so much easier because there was nowhere good to set my bag down here. I was easily able to add my 4x4 panel CPL and swap between my 2 and 3 stop soft GNDs.
I took this shot last Thursday mid afternoon just as it was going dark. I loved the colours of the pillars and thought that they would make quite a nice abstract image.
Bristol is such a complex city to shoot. It rises and falls from the river Avon up to the Clifton Suspension Bridge three hundred feet high up. There are underpasses, bridges, roads going off in all directions, the river Avon which runs right through it and more buildings than you could shake a stick at.
If you want to photograph a city that's challenging and yet rewarding when you get it right, give Bristol a whirl.
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Canon 70-200mm f4 @ 75mm
f16
0.6 sec
ISO100
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