Saturday, September 30, 2006
Underground Art
Monday, September 25, 2006
River Cafe, Ranelagh Gardens
The River Cafe is a small, unassuming but interestingly decorated cafe under the railway line a minute's walk from Putney Bridge Underground (but above ground) Station. This photo is a result of being attracted to the decor and trying to capture a rather fluid group, including the owner. The composition of the cafe was more important than the group.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
In colour!
Just to prove that I do sometimes make colour pictures.
Btw, it is a moth.
Wedge
From the Ironbridge Museum of Steel Sculptures.
This is a very small part of a very large sculpture.
The sculpture is black but I positioned myself to get the reflection of the surrounding vegetation.
I forgot to say that I had emailed Pam who owns this museum showing her some of the pictures I had taken. I asked for her help in attributing the original work.
This work is 'Wedges Mill I', 1980, by Roy Kitchin.
Roy was Pam's husband and they started the museum together.
If ever you are in the area it is worth a visit.
We went on a Monday and commented that it was very quiet, "That's because we're closed Mondays" said Pam as she gave us the guide to go round!
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
One Man and his Dog
Monday, September 18, 2006
Stream
I frequent one of those mass photography forums where people click to vote for images that they like. I've uploaded very few and tend not to get too involved but I have noticed that a certain kind of landscape image is very popular. The above is an attempt to replicate some of the characteristics in post processing that many of these images have. Strange and other worldly colour casts, dodged out water, selective increases in contrast and lighting. The resulting image resembles the original in composition; I can't say much more than that. I'm curious about what we think. Does the treatement destroy the image or does it have its merits? My treatment is not as agressive as many others that I have seen (sky is not deep purple for one).
Sunday, September 17, 2006
shearing
The ram is a Castlemilk Moorit - a rare breed.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Begonias
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Arnisdale
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
313 (02930125)
One of the first from my new D80. I'm staying with my girlfriend's parents in an old Midwest railroad and river town, so there's tons of abandoned and decaying buildings downtown along with at least one really good coffee place that also has a rocking beer selection :-) Between the coffee, the beer and all the old buildings, I've got a lot of photographic inspiration.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
a Meyerowitz moment
I rather enjoyed watching the video linked to on Auspicious' site for 8th September: Joel Meyerowitz telling us how to do street photography. One of his 'targets' was a dog-walker. I had only seen that before in Buenos Aires (before the peso collapse) but here it was in Neal Street, London (2005). Believe it or not but I was pretty well unseen! In hindsight a lower view point would have been more fun but then I always like to get context, which is perhaps why I'll never go for 'full-frontal' street photography - I always want to get in as much about the background and surroundings as possible.
Friday, September 08, 2006
New Forest Litter
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Cold Trees
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Wrangling
The last from a short sequence available - here - showing wranglers driving the horses to their
over night pasture in the fields surrounding the ranch.
More Bernera
Sunday, September 03, 2006
pumping gas
Agit-prop against global warming. It is difficult to use photography to highlight what is happening with global warming in a reasonably scientific and unemotional way. Every now and then I feel moved enough to give it a try. Two hundred miles from Heathrow and yet we are beneath the flight path to the US and Canada. The climatic conditions on this day resulted in an effect akin to overlaying individual exposures as the contrails stacked up.
