Author: Christian

Meanwood Water

Meanwood Water

Reading Time: 3 minutes After having a go in Kirkstall and Knaresborough recently, I wanted to try some more long exposure water shots. We are lucky in Leeds to be one of the greenest UK cities (not that living in Hyde Park feels like this at times) and Meanwood 

On The Road

On The Road

Reading Time: 3 minutes We went to Opera in The Park, which was brilliant, and had me in tears when they opened with O Fortuna! from Carmina Burana. Much as I complain at times about Leeds Shitty Council wasting money, I think there are worse things they could spend 

Dark Works

Dark Works

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick post to show an expreiment. I read a nice tutorial ecently in Practical Photography about creating an image in the style of a Dutch Oil Painting and thoguht I would give it a go. The random skull, which I have no idea 

Kirkstall Festival 2010

Kirkstall Festival 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes A little more restrained this year than the 150 or so pictures I got when massively excited by my new camera last year), here’s a few from Kirkstall Festival this year. Kirkstall Festival is a bit of a mixed bag. It has a masive funfair, 

Roundhay Park

Roundhay Park

Reading Time: 2 minutes After the food festival the other day it seems I am back in Roundhay again. It’s easy to forget how much Roundhay Park has to offer. It is quite huge, over 700 acres in total. After being under various ownerships over centuries, Roundhay park was 

Emily’s Party

Emily’s Party

Reading Time: 3 minutes So one of my good friends has had a little birthday shindig, and I have been along capturing the event, and also roped into sound engineering. As seems to be the thing at the moment, we had a bit of Burlesque. This of course, I 

Foodie Festival

Foodie Festival

Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, this was just one of the random things. My Partner answered one of those random radio phone in call outs and got some tickets to the Leeds Food Festival in Roundhay Park. I love food, I love nice food, but this is something that 

Not A Thimble

Not A Thimble

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you move in such circles, you may have heard about the stupid fucking furore surrounding Thimbleberry Festival. This is a small underground festival, which as had it’s license pulled and the organiser up on criminal charges for alleged drug issues at the event. Here’s 

River, Abbey, Pylons

River, Abbey, Pylons

Reading Time: 3 minutes Kirkstall is a very interesting area of Leeds, if you spend the time to look around. This is where the river aire flows into the city though a mish mash of old industry, reclaimed nature reserves, and of course the Abbey, once the true gateway 

Knaresborough

Knaresborough

Reading Time: 3 minutes Following on from my recent water pictures in Kirkstall I have had a further play with the neutral density filters and slow shutters in Knaresborough. The first set of these are just off Riverside, under the castle. There’s not as much movement in the water 

Bugs!

Bugs!

Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the last year or so I have played a lot with Macro Photography, particularly flowers, and also (because where there are flowers there are…) bugs! Getting in close with little creatures gives a really different an interesting view on the world we live in, 

Leeds Street Shots

Leeds Street Shots

Reading Time: 2 minutes We went into town the other day, for something to do, to have a look at the Leeds Museum, which opened (in its current form aabout a year ago, and I have never, so far, been). I didn’t really take many pictures in the museum