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The End In Sight

July 01, 2021 • 1 Comment

This was one of the most challenging capture situations I have ever had to manage. Shooting directly into the setting sun, I was trying to capture riders travelling at 50/60 kph up a long perspective, while being jostled by other photogs in the press pen. The circumstances were deeply unfavourable, but trusting in the quality of the mechanics and o...

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Black and White or Colour?

June 18, 2021 • 1 Comment

The Grande Arche in Paris is amazing in many ways, not least because of its natural tendency to explode outwards, only prevented by 4 massive, pre-stressed cross-beams in both its roof and its foundations. Not being an engineer, but walking past it frequently, I wondered whether the stress explained why its windows and marble facing occasionally po...

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Cheesy?

June 11, 2021 • 1 Comment

Given my aspiration to produce high-quality, Fine Art Photography, this image triggers some questions for me. Sure, it was crafted with care, given that it required planning, timing, and the use of quality equipment mounted on a heavy tripod to produce a colour sensitive and in-depth focus result, all under difficult lighting conditions. That said...

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Eiffel Storm

June 03, 2021 • 1 Comment

I see the Eiffel tower every day that I leave home and have photographed it in a myriad of lighting and weather situations. I am still hoping one day to capture a lightning strike on it, but the lighting on the day that I captured this image was still quite dramatic. Given the ubiquity of images of this most iconic of structures, I am most often f...

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The Towers of The Teeth?

May 27, 2021 • 1 Comment

Carchost and Narchost stood either side of the Black Gate at the entrance to Mordor. Long abandoned by the Gondorians, they were occupied by the servants of Sauron and swung open at the end of the epic story, to allow his forces to face the Host of the West in the final, agonising, Battle of the Black Gate. Today, instead of Orcs and Trolls, they...

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