shutterjunkie

Southport Pier

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:51 +0100

Our summer holiday - one night in Southport ;)

I did however, go armed with my camera and tripod as i've been itching to take a coastal sunset photo in the UK for years now. Finally got my opportunity and it was sadly a very bland sunset.. so Photoshop had a lot to answer for when I returned to brighten it up somewhat!

I also added a vintage tone to make it a little different from the standard shot.

Sunset at Holywell Green

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:45 +0100

So i've been popping out several times on an evening to get photos of the sunsets around here, but always just with my iphone. I took my 5D MkII with me on this evening to shoot this slightly uninspiring sunset, but with HDR it brought out some of the colours at least :)

I'm also having quite a lot of spam problems at the moment. I've enlisted the help of Akismet now, but it doesn't seem to be picking up on them properly yet.

Reykjavik Harbour

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:56 +0100

Looking across part of Reykjavik harbour towards the glass concert hall. Soft HDR image combined from 3 exposures.

Looking across Reykjavik

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:15 +0100

This was shot from the top of Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavik (of which I will be posting a photo of in the coming days) - looking further west from the harbour.

HDR shot combined from 3 exposures, but I still tried to keep it pretty natural - just with added tonality.

Iceland National Park

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:41 +0100

So this update has certainly been a long time coming - apologies for that! However, it does mean I have a few photos to post seen as we've just come back from Iceland. Despite only being there for 2.5 days, it was fantastic and i'd love to go back.

This is Ãžingvellir National Park - an area where you can literally stand on two different tectonic plates. Here the Eurasian and North American plates are separating and it was also the birth place of the Icelandic parliament. As such, the area is now a world heritage site.

This is a HDR contructed from 3 separate exposure images.

Cherry Blossom

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:42 +0100

Taken just down the road from the house - I had to pop down and get some photos of the beautiful pink cherry blossom tree against the gorgeous (albeit rare) British blue sky :)

A collection of Venice

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:52 +0100

A collection of shots from Venice which I edited recently and put together as a little Montage. It'll be nice to go back again some day :)

Delicasy

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:40 +0100

del·i·ca·cy/ˈdelikəsē/ Noun: 1) The quality of being delicate, in particular.

So continuing my New Years Resolution.. in part.. i've edited this shot I took a few months ago, giving it a more vintage tone that I would normally approach with such a subject. I'm always fascinated by the wings of these Glass Wing Butterflies - they seem so fragile.

New Year, New Start

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:33 +0100

So - its 2012, and one of my two new years resolutions is to do more photography. I've been very slack over the last few months with house moving, having work done to it etc. etc. and so, this post will mark a new start to the year. I wont be posting something every day, but i'll target for once a week at least ;)

Hope everyone had a lovely christmas and new year :)

Oh yes.. and I should probably say that this is one of the last portraits I did in 2011, again of Evelyn. Its funny to see how much she's grown up in just 6 months, and how much her features have changed.

Scimitar Oryx

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:11 +0100

Now extinct in the wild, I had to take this shot at Chester Zoo. I re-coloured the grass/foliage to make it look a little more dynamic - that and the fact I struggle to not do anything to an image in Photoshop these days.