A fine day of high pressure and sub-zero temperatures at the weekend made for some perfect mountain photography conditions. These shots were taken from high on Crinkle Crags in the Lake District.
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18Jan2012
Langdale Sunset
From Crinkle crags
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06Sep2011
Soggy Snowdonia
A Workshop in Heavy Rain
After a summer of Snowdonia photography workshops in sometimes often too bright sunshine, Snowdonia showed her true colours on Monday, with non-stop rain all day. Although we had to keep to tree cover for most of the day, the water on the leaves and gushing down mountain streams gave us plenty to work with.
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17Aug2011
A blurred tree
Camera motion blur
On one level, in-camera motion blur is pure play. Take away the tools-of-the-trade tripod, careful compositions, and pin-sharp images, wheel in unpredictable results and no discernable subject. Sounds a bit crazy? The results can be really mesmerising. Taking away the detail from a scene or subject has the fascinating side-effect of only leaving the loosest impression of the place, at the risk of sounding very pretentious, almost reducing the image to an emotional imprint of a place. This needs more investigation.
Click on the image for a larger version.
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04Aug2011
Snowdonia
Sunshine Workshop
The weather being what it is in the mountainous areas of Wales, having too much sunshine is a problem we rarely face on workshops. Yesterday, the strong August sun was a real challenge. We managed to pull out a set of vibrant ‘postcard’ shots, but the strong light really had us thinking hard about exposure and the limited dynamic range of our cameras. A nice luxury to have!
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13Apr2011
Just take two
Moel Arthur, Clwydian range
There is something quite refreshing about taking less pictures in the snap-happy world of flash memory cards and cheap hard-drive space. On this hour long ‘golden light’ photo walk, I took just two pictures and in such dramatic light, didn’t even to touch them in post-processing. Here are my two.
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15Feb2011
Street portraits
street photography workshop
These images were shot on a recent workshop I ran in Llangollen. The good folk of Llangollen were surprisingly open to having strangers with big cameras roll up and stopping them on the street. We got a few good portraits from the session and also learned a lot about working with people and being prepared in advance to work really quickly when we had the right people in our viewfinders. These girl at the top is my favorite picture from the session, purely because she was able to immediately relax and have fun in front of the camera. Thanks for that!
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14Feb2011
first breath of light
quarry houses on moel siabod
I keep going back to these old miners cottages in Snowdonia. I am not sure why, there is very little left standing now, but I think it’s the thrill of getting there and getting set up just before the sunrise briefly kisses the old ruins of the miners cottages with golden light. I wonder every time how many sunrises these cottages have seen. When did they last see men sleeping under their roofs? Which fierce winter was it that finally wrenched the roofs off? How long until there is nothing left here but a pile of rock.
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15Jan2011
Petrified trees
Minus ten degrees and dropping
There were a few days this January it was just too cold to stay outside for long around these parts. The dense cold air was channelling down to the valley floor for days, creating a freezing fog that stopped the sun heating the ground. After three days though, the fog departed, leaving the landscape gripped in a deep freeze and covered in a thick hoarfrost.
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20Dec2010
Let it snow…
Snowdonia from the Clwydians
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08Dec2010
Llangwyfan
Derelict Hospital
It’s a strange thing, going into a semi-derelict building. You of course have the overwhelming sense to just get away from there as quickly as possible before something bad happens. Curiosity soon takes hold though, and the traces of the lives that have vactated these buildings draws you in. These old hospital wards near Denbigh feel like they are rapidly being dragged back into the ground by the overgrown nature that surrounds them.
You can see the full series [here].
