Wider View of Bridlington

Top five images using 15mm fish eye lens, rest using various lens giving wide views of  Bridlington.

Evening Poppies in Barton

 After giving up on getting any more dragonflies in the frame, I tried a few evening shots of the poppy field - this time using F22 to get maximum depth of field. I ended up with a few fish-eye images to show the extent of the poppies as they stretched into the distance

John Lewis Fish-eye

 A spent a bit of time with the fish-eye lens when I had finished photographing the staff etc for the JL project. Here are some uncorrected and corrected images showing a range of distortions.

Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead is much more spacious than I was expecting with wide pedestrian only roads and lots of round features

More Owls

Evening shot of the Tawny Owl taken with the fish-eye lens - he did eventually eat his mouse. Below an image of the owl taken with fill-in flash to balance the exposure of sky and subject. I set the exposure for the sky on the camera manual setting and then experimented with various power flashes.

Stourhead

We walked around the Stourhead Estate this morning in beautiful sunshine. This family were worried they would spoil my photo but I assured them that they added greatly to it! I used the fish-eye on the daffodils and oak tree, photographing at two distances from the flowers. I like the more distant one best.

Travels with a Fish-Eye

Five images taken during my train journey to Bath.





The first two are of Royston station.The motion blur go-faster stripes painted on the train make it look as if it is moving but the lettering confirms that it is stationary.


















The third image is St Pancras with the International terminus to the left. I like the complimentary colours in the brickwork and ironwork. Even the lady's suitcase matched.










The fourth image was taken on the Circle line to Paddington. I managed to get central to the open door and it was lucky that a person sat on each side of the frame and are both using ipods.











The fifth image is another take on 'Mind the Gap' with a Great Western train at Paddington. This one needs a larger image as ther are lots of interesting cameos inside the train.

Irresistable Image

I should be painting a wall but couldn't resist posting this image to share - taken on an early morning walk from Barton to Grantchester

Cambridge United Friendly

Image from inside the main stand during a friendly between Cambridge United and reserve team from Liverpool FC.
Liverpool won 1:0 from a free kick so Cambridge gave them a good run for their money. Having 'retired' from touchline photography, it felt odd to be watching from up in the stand.