I took advantage of Trey Ratcliff’s invitation to join him for a photo walk while he was in London last Friday. Trey is the leading name in HDR photography and has taken the process from the oversaturated, overprocessed method that people all too often misused to make an average shot look better, to getting HDR photography into the Smithsonian
You just can’t beat the light in the South Of France. Over a very long weekend on France’s south coast, I found once again that pointing the camera anywhere during the daytime produces remarkable results, and pointing it and holding it steady at night does just as well. This was also a great destination to [...]
Driving through London yesterday, I couldn’t resist a trip to Heathrow Airport while it is closed because of the eruptions from a volcano 1,000 miles away under the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier in Iceland. I parked in a very deserted short stay car park and took the empty lifts and walkways from the car park to Terminal [...]
This is the platform of the Lyon St. Exupéry Airport Railway Station. We were flying out of Lyon from the St. Exupéry Airport and you cannot help but notice the amazing winged building that seems to be part of the airport but doesn’t seem to have any planes. If you have the time to wander [...]
We visited Waterperry Gardens, just east of Oxford, and we stayed longer than I thought we were going to. This meant that we were still around as the sun was just beginning to get low in the sky. Not sunset by any means, but the sunlight was coming from low camera right as we found [...]
St. Mary’s Church in Churchill was Designed by James Plowman of Oxford, the tower is a two-thirds copy of the tower of Magdalen College, Oxford, its hammerbeam roof a copy of the roof of Christ Church, Oxford, its buttresses are versions of those of the chapel of New College, Oxford, and its windows are based [...]
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England has had a £61m update which has transformed the museum from a dark and rather dog-eared museum into an amazingly light and airy space that is bang up to date.
I was questioned by the security guard while taking this photo. Someone had reported that someone was doing something to the security office.
I get a lay over at Dubai Airport and all I can thin is that in a couple of months time this place will be filled (well, Dubai airport seems way too big to ever be filled but…) with photographers who will be making the most of Gulf Photo Plus, and I won’t be coming [...]
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