Brighton Street Photography
On Saturday we popped down the coast to Brighton and wandered its streets, its beach, and its pier while I shot anything that interested me. And Brighton has a lot that interests me so this photo album is a little meaty and eclectic. It was about four years ago on a trip to Brighton, perusing the various jewellers in Brighton's famous Lanes, that we spotted a rather lovely emerald ring in a window. Very lovely. Too lovely to not buy, but too expensive to buy without justification. And that's why we got married three years ago. Romantic? Not really. It's our wedding anniversary on Monday (halloween: very easy to remember) so we celebrated early and hit Brighton again on Saturday. We've been to Brighton many, many times; the Lanes, the pier, the beach many times. Since I was in a photographing mood (unusual for me, I know) we decided to hit some random, unwalked-by-us streets this time around and discovered the North Laine area of Brighton. How had we never discovered this area before? Shameful! It's a great area; whereas the Lanes seems to have become less quirky over the years, North Laine seems to have embraced the bohemian lifestyle that Brighton's famous for with a passion. Lovely, little, independent shops, market stalls, antiques, crafts. Just lovely. In album Brighton (94 photos) Google+: View post on...
Project 365 – Week Forty Three
We reach week forty three of the Photo Every Day project and recognise the incredible artistry of the photographer, me. Look how the artist – me, again – frames this week’s worth of pictures within curves of gold taking the viewer on a journey from death to life; we start with a handle, rusting, representing something closing perhaps, but also, maybe, opening? And then we pass through scenes of life, good and bad, ice cream and rain, smiles, stern attitude, and there’s cider in there. What’s the cider there for? Does it refresh? Does it add sparkle? The apple reminds us of Adam and Eve so are we witnessing a genesis – if you will – of pictures? And when we reach the climax of this journey we find a banana. Which is also a fruit. So clever. We see in its shape that of the handle at the start but this banana isn’t dead; it’s alive with yellowness. It’s sealed but easily opened and we know that there awaits a heavenly daiquiri if we so choose. This update brought to you by The Pretentious...
The Runaway Balloon
These girls were walking ahead of us enjoying the overcast but mild late October weather along Brighton seafront yesterday. One girl was carrying a balloon and I knew I had to take a picture of it. Just as a I prepared to take the shot the balloon was passed from one girl to the other and… it slipped out of their hands. This, then, is the moment the balloon made its bid for freedom. Google+: View post on...
Brighton Seagull
I'm in the middle of going through the photos I took yesterday during a day out to Brighton but thought I'd upload this for #SeagullSunday (I'm well aware there is no such theme). Brighton is a seaside town and, as such, it has seagulls. If you walk down the pier you will be watched like a hawk (okay, like a seagull) if it's even suspected that you might have fish and chips on or about your person. The birds are expert gliders and hoverers, using the sea breeze to hold in position above likely targets before swooping in for a feast and occasionally – if you're very lucky – you can swing your camera straight up and get a nice, sharp shot of one of these gulls without leaning too far back and falling over. Google+: View post on...
TAT Shot
This is a photo for #TAT or #ThrowAwayThursday curated by +Lynn Langmade, +Doug DeTraz, and +Michael Lawson. I went to Wembley on Sunday to watch the Tampa Bay Buccaneers play the Chicago Bears. I didn't want to travel with a set of lenses and I was in London to do a bit of the tourist thing too so I only went with my 100mm on the body. Shots of the game were never going to be amazing – just memories for me really – but I thought it might be nice to see what sort of pictures I could take from my seat anyway. The usual snaps of stadium architecture and shots of flags and seats and people soon surfaced and then I started noticing the people around and in front of me using either point-and-clicks or phone cameras to take shots too; interestingly (for me) there was a noticeable swell in these cameras appearing with their backs lit up with whatever the snapper was looking at whenever the Tampa cheerleaders took to the field. It was quite amusing to see a mass of tiny LCD screens spring into life and hurriedly zoom in on the smiling blondes and happy brunettes in their rather nice (and skimpy) red uniforms. I decided to shoot the shooters. This particular fan was two rows in front of me. I recall he'd picked out a particular blonde cheerleader of some interest to him and was steadying his camera at its maximum magnification, readying himself for that perfect moment. I was waiting too, locked onto his screen, acutely aware of how the dim conditions in our seats coupled with the brightness on the field and the light from his screen was playing havoc with my camera in its aperture priority mode but I just didn't have time to flip to manual; I knew I'd only have a second or two. I took a breath to give myself a little extra stillness (the 1/50th of a second shutter speed was already worrying me despite image stabilisation) and then pressed down… about one thousandth of a second after he'd done the same and his camera screen had blacked out to capture his image. At least one of us got a nice memory of that particular moment. Google+: View post on...
Waiting For The Rain
I know the look on this woman's face; it's the look that says "oh crap, it's raining so that means my various services from Virgin Media are about to take a massive nosedive!" Yes, I know that look well. Google+: View post on...
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