Shooting the Moon
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick one to share this image (after a few attempts) of the moon through my Tamron Zoom lens…
Author: Christian
Mushroom Season
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes I do think that I am a little odd. I found these mushrooms growing on the edge of campus, and of course just had to get the camera and grovel about in the wet to take photos…
Autumn Colours
Reading Time: 2 minutes I took myself round and about Woodhouse Moor for a lunchtime walk, and to try and capture some of the colours of Autumn. Autumn is a funny month, nature displays some of the best colours of the year, but the weather so often fades these …
Textures of Dereliction
Reading Time: 3 minutes These are some more images from Hyde Park and the surrounding areas, taken alongside some of my research photos – these are much more an aesthetic project, aiming to capture the micro textuaral details, isolating these from the full scene. Though of course these are …
Alternative Views of Hyde Park
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is broadly just another round up of some photos from Hyde Park over the last few months. I guess the theme is looking beyond the expected, and picking out some interesting vignettes, both on a micro and macro scale, which add to the body …
Light Night 2009
Reading Time: 2 minutes Light Night is an annual event in Leeds, that has been going for a few years now in which spaces in the city are taken over and become art installations and performance spaces. I had a play with my new(ish) camera and got a few …
Took a silly lens to London, and shot a few Squiggles
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve just received a quite cool fisheye adapter which screws onto the front of my kit lens. Fisheye lenses tend to be those with a focal length of less than about 14mm (full frame) and come in two types – circular (which create a circular …
Tropical World
Reading Time: 3 minutes I last went to Tropical World in Roundhay about 20 years ago, still slightly tripping after a Heineken Festival (at the age where it still seemed amusing to try and teach the mynah birds to say “fuck”)… It’s been very interesting to go there again, …
Steam Trains!
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is somewhere I have been meaning to go for some time. The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is a heritage line running from Keighley to Oxenhope. Along the route is Haworth, which is also a lovely place to visit in its own right. The …