Tate Entertaining
I’ve done some work for Tate Catering a few times in the past and was lucky enough to get asked back last week. Tate Catering do the food for The Tate, both Tate Modern and Tate Britain, its generally high end cuisine accompanied equally fantastic wine. I really enjoy shooting this sort of thing, It’s [...]
Battersea Power Station
A few weekends ago I went to take an image that I’ve been after for a long time. I was hoping to catch a pano from this spot but unfortunately my camera failed me, or more to the point, it wouldn’t expose long enough to get any useful data from the ground. I may still [...]
The Alma, Crystal Palace #3
The final instalment of my Alma set. I’ve devcided to add a gallery of the images rather than do many posts one after the other. There’s little more to say apart from its a great pub with excellent food created by Daniel Mayers who is passionate about his craft and the provenance of the fresh [...]
The Alma, Crystal Palace
Here’s the second 360 that I created from my visit. This took a bit of time to shoot. The road outside is quite busy and I had to time the shot well to manage to avoid there being any blurry cars! Click the square icon for a full screen experience
The Alma – Crystal Palace
We have a newly renovated watering hole in Crystal Palace – The Alma. Viveca and I were keen to try the pub out soon after it opened and were very happy with the turn around from the previous version. The new owner Stephen Boyd has done a great job in renovating and decorating the property [...]
Royal Exchange and Bank in The City Of London
This is the image that I went out on Sunday to capture. There’s not much to say about it apart from I’m very happy. It’s a testament to planning really, I knew what I wanted, where to shoot and that there would be little in the way of either pedestrian or vehicular traffic at night [...]
Royal Exchange
Another from my Sunday evening out. This is a three shot panorama, each made up of 9 brackets and processed through Photomatix. The building is often confused with The Bank of England which it to the left of this structure. This is the third Royal Exchange built on this spot. From Wikipedia : The third [...]
London Wall At Night
I’ve been pining to get out and shoot some images over the last week or two. Trawling through past shots and discovering images that I’ve not jet processed is fun, but no substitute for getting out there and pressing the shutter release button. I think there is some excitement in getting home and sticking that [...]
Hellingly Asylum – Bricks and Mortar
The weather had been inclement throughout the explore and as we exited the main complex of the asylum it started to rain adding to our mood. The destruction of the hall had almost completed and we both knew that within the next week destruction would be complete. Both of us got on with our work [...]
Hellingly – Gone But Not Forgotten
Whilst at Viveca’s the other day she was looking at her old pictures from Hellingly Asylum, this spurred me to have a look at mine. as this was the first place I went on urbex missions my early images are almost all rubbish, however its a good testament to my perseverance in the craft of [...]
Atlas Hotel Casablanca
Here’s the external area at The Atlas Hotel in Casablanca. Its not the best hotel in the world, but close to the airport so convenient. My room was clean and functional, so I was happy to lay my bags down and stay a couple of nights. Click the square icon for the full screen panorama.
Image Processing Tutorial
I thought that I’d create a post showing how I created an image this morning. I’ve been spending a bit of time brushing up on skills and looking into tutorials recently, so I thought it was time to put into use what I had learnt and share that with my viewers. Generally I use several [...]
Composite Number One
Since I’ve been taking photos I’ve been an admirer of the work of Joel Grimes and his composites. This was partially the driver for me getting some more strobes and lighting kit. I thought ‘I can do that’! Well after a few tutorials and a bit of messing about I have managed to produce my [...]
Viveca and Jasper
I now have three strobes and associated stands and softboxes I’ve been messing about with them quite a bit. Viveca asked me to take some pictures of her and Jasper the cat. He’s pretty old so Viveca wanted to get some decent pics of him and her together. This was actually quite a challenge, The [...]
Reims – Iemza, Street Art
On the way back from Luxembourg we detoured through France to visit a derelict industrial compound that was due to be flattened. there were still a few buildings left, this one in particular held what we had come to see. The artist of the insect like beings is IEMZA. There’s a lot of work gone [...]
Dartmoor – Underworld
Hidden under the Dartmoor turf is this little urbex gem. Its a disused pumping house. The second visit for me, first time it wasn’t this damp. I was expecting there to be a little water, however I wasn’t expecting it to be 18 inches plus deep. I shou8ld have taken my waders! There is very [...]
Phlegm – Inside the Mind
Here’s another one from Phlegm, this is a fairly large piece and you can see that the artist doesn’t do things by halves, it’s HUGE! However despite the overall size of the piece the detail is amazing. We were lucky enough to see this on a lovely clear day and although the blue sky is [...]
Some Assorted ROA
I just realised that I’ve not blogged my ROA images from Doel in Belgium – so here you go!
Filter House Gallery – Panorama
Just outside Sheffield is a disused filterhouse, it’s a haven for creatives and their excellent art. I was lucky enough to meet one of the artists here as he was working on a new piece. It’s over six months since I’ve been here and was amazed to see that the walls have changed – such [...]
Rocket01 vs. Phlegm
I recently took a trip up to Sheffield with my friend RomanyWG. We wanted to check out a hotel that we knew was in the process of demo and had some cool street art. Luckily we had one of the artists with us which made things a little easier. I really think that we would [...]
Cotehele Quay
Cotehele Quay is on the River Tamar and was once a busy transit and freight quay, market gardeners sent their wares to Plymouth from here and no doubt the local mines will have also used it. The quay and area in general is dotted with lime kilns. The lime would have been used in agriculture [...]
Cotehele – Potting Shed
Cotehele is in The Tamar Valley on the border of Devon and Cornwall, once this area was awash with market gardens, the steep south facing hills giving a great aspect for growing flowers. The area was mostly known for daffodils, these gardens are no longer working, however various kinds of daffs can still be found [...]
End of the day
Harold Wood - The Fridges
Dungeness - ND110 First Day Out
Cristallerie - Sanding
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