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My images are famous! (Well sort of). They got used by the ZDnet review site All of the photos that are here are as they were taken originally - none of them have been altered at all. I quite often get asked this, but I can promise you that the colours that you see in this pictures are exactly how they come when I first take them, and no 'touching up' in Photoshop or otherwise has happened.
I was back in England for eleven day (visiting from the USA) for the New Year period, and met up with a whole load of friends in a bar right near the London Eye - which was all rather wonderfully lit up at seven o'clock in the evening when I got there. I have no idea what bus it is driving past - but I'm sure the geeks will know!
And from sunrise to sunset. Driving home just a few days later (although I can't actually remember exactly where I was), I pulled over the car just before a bridge to take shots of the sun going down by this river. It was a stunning sight to see.
Now I admit that one sunrise might start to look like another, but I still can't fail to be blown away by how good this particular one is. I'm on vacation at Kill Devil Hills at the Outer Banks in North Carolina, and this is what sunrise at 6.17am looked like on this gorgeous August summer morning.
Boy do I love my new camera. Now in the USA, driving home one Sunday evening from the beach, the sunset over the marshes near Folly Beach. I pulled into a driveway and got this stunning shot.
Having bought myself a lovely new Nikon D50 it was time to go out and use it properly to take a classic 'headlights and rearlights' shot of some cars driving down the road at night. So I went to Guildford where the A31 crosses over the A3, and with a very still camera and an 8 second exposure, got myself some cracking photos of which this is my favourite.
My second trip to the USA this year, and I was in Charleston in South Carolina again. This the sunset over one of the inlets from the sea (The Ashley River) in a northern suburb of the main town.
I found myself in Charleston, South Carolina, USA for the beginning of the new year, and specifically made the effort to get up whilst it was still dark and nip down to the beach at Sullivans Island to watch the sunrise at 07.23 in the morning. It was quite a moment ... even if I was half asleep at the time!
Was on a stag weekend in Worthing for my friend Chris (wedding number 35 in the long list of them), and the morning after the big night out before, this was the stunning low tide of Worthing Beach early in the morning. It was quiet, calm, seagulls flapped and squaked occasionally and the whole world seemed a very peaceful place ...
Typical! I add no new pictures in my gallery for 7 months, and then two come along back to back. This is a good one for me, because now I'm working early shifts and have to get up at the outlandish hour of 5am, I get to see sunrises and not just sunsets anymore! And this is the view from the window of my bedroom!
Back on holiday in South Africa again, and this time I travelled to Lesotho - an independent country buried in the heart of South Africa. Except to get there, you have to travel in a 4x4 drive vehicle
up 3000 metres through a winding, rocky and very bumpy road called 'Sani
Pass'. The view at the top when you get there though is totally worth
it.
From when I went to visit contributor Rick (#175)
this year, I was in Holland for four days, and flew back from Eindhoven
airport. This was sunset whilst waiting in the departure lounge for my
flight - it's actually taken through a pane of glass which you can't really
tell, and although I have a similar one without the trailer in the foreground
I think it adds to the picture rather than being in the way.
I went on holiday to South Africa for three weeks (almost
for all of February) this year. I was hoping I'd get a nice beach or sunset
shot at somepoint, and indeed manage to get a combo of the two! This is
sunset at a very windy Noordhoek Beach, south of Cape Town on the west
coast.
I wish I knew what made a good sunset happen in the sky. If someone can tell me the scientifical reasoning behind what weather conditions make a stunning sunset, then please email me and let me know! As I don't, it means that I tend to carry around my digital
camera with me just about everywhere just in case I suddenly see shots
like this! This is the view west from Epsom
Downs Racecourse on a cold, cold, December evening!
I went down to Somerset for a long weekend, in wet miserable
November! Not a nice time you may think? Far from it .. it was still quite
stunning. And allow me a little self-indulgence here at this silhouetted
photo of myself whilst standing on the beach at Burnham-on-Sea. From my travels on Tube6, this was the sunrise that I took from a station whilst waiting on a platform for my connection. It actually got better than this whilst I was travelling on the train over the next few minutes, but couldn't get a 'still' shot as I was travelling on a very bumpy train!
Went on a Canal
Boating holiday in the midlands for a week, and on the very first
evening on the Worcester & Birmingham canal, I took this picture overlooking
one of the lochs on the flight at Tardebigge.
Overlooking the Thames, I was sat outside the
back on the London Cinema Theatre on the southside of the embankment,
when this sunset happened! You can see Charing Cross station on the Embankment
on the other side of the river.
Went to Scotland for a small break over the easter weekend. Whilst stopped for a comfort break about ten miles south out of Fort William on the way up, there was this river with a nice mountain in the background.. stunning!
Hurrah! At last.. another sunset photo. Just when I was
thinking that I'd never see another cool sunset again whilst I had my
camera on me, this one came along at the weekend whilst I was waiting
for a train at my local station in Epsom. Gorgeous red colours soaked
up the sky.
Seems like a while since I added a photo to my gallery,
and whilst you might not immediately think that this is a stunning photo,
I think the different shades of colours in the sky are excellent. Taken
whilst I was down in Cornwall at the turn of the new year whilst riding
along a cycle track. My bike is resting on the bench in the foreground!
From the Kennet & Avon canal flight of locks at Caen
Hill - where there are sixteen locks one after the other! This was
lock number six at sunset, and to get the darkened filter effect, I actually
took this picture whilst holding my sunglasses in front of the camera
lense!
Went to two Pet
Shop Boys gigs this month - once in Brighton, and once at the Brixton
Academy where this picture was taken. Keyboardist Chris Lowe from the
band is neatly silhoutted against a blue spotlight placed behind him.
The Queens jubilee weekend gave as an additional day off as well as the normal bank holiday, on top of which I took another day off and went away for five days to Bude in Cornwall. This is the view from the top of the hill as you drive south out of Bude on the A39. 23rd February - 15th March 2002 - New Zealand Holiday Two more of the best photos from my New Zealand trip.
I took just over three hundred photos whilst
on holiday in NZ for three weeks in 2001. I used to have them published
in a separate gallery here, but took them down due to lack of webspace!
Milford sound, South Island, New Zealand. From my holiday to NZ in February & March of this year, I took just over three hundred photos on my camera, and yet the best two happened to be taken on the same day just minutes apart! The first here is a stunning view of the bottom of a waterfall on Milford Sound. I haven't adjusted this picture in the slightest - the gorgeous blue colours you see is how it came out. To this day, I think this is best photo I've ever taken in my life, and if you'd like a copy of the original - as some people have asked - I'd be happy to email it to you.
I went away to Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk for new year 2001-2002. This is cold blue Cromer beach on new years day.
Stansted airport. I was returning to London after a trip away, and was waiting in the baggage reclaim when I looked out the window and saw this!
Tesco's car park, Glengormley, Northern Ireland. Glengormley is apparantly a grim place where it "Rains constantly" (a locals words, not mine!). I think it was drizzling when I took this great picture.
The north west side of Loch Lomond, Scotland. I absolutely love this photo, moreso because it was one of the very first ones that I took with my camera, and was very pleased with the results! |
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