"A different beauty, a different life"

"It was a sculpture, now it's a monument,. It now has a different beauty, one I could never imagine. It has its own life — different from the one I gave to it."
- Fritz Koenig.

The Sphere, created in 1971 by artist Fritz Koenig, and symbolising world peace through world trade, now stands in Battery Park, New York. It formerly stood in Austin J. Tobin Plaza, the area between the towers of the World Trade Center.

Speedlights And Macro Photography

This week, something a little different ... a honey bee on a willow catkin.

On the screen, this image is magnified around 3 - 3.5 times life-size, assuming that your screen is about 96 pixels per inch.

Midsummer

It's the Summer Solstice today, and the rain has stopped here ... well, for a while at least, I hope.

This older picture, taken in 2006, looks west, across Marlow Gravel Pits, with the setting sun hidden behind a bank of cloud.

One Love ... and one fascination

There are two things that keep me coming back to photography: one is a simple love of people-photography.

The other is a fascination with selective focus, the use of controlled depth of field to capture some parts of a image in sharp focus and blur other parts to the point where they only hint at their contents.

The Best Camera ...

... is the one you've got with you all the time, and can use quickly.
For me, that means a pocket-sized camera, rather than extra weight-training to be able to carry a (heavy) high end camera, with a selection of lenses.

An HDR Image: Sheep May Safely Graze ...

Beechstock 2011: Some personal favourites

Having been working with Teaser for a few months, it was only natural that that I'd be at the Beechstock Music Festival at some point to record them playing on the first day ... what I'd not originally planned was to be making images over the whole three days