Reindeer

Reindeer

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s not often you get to meet a real reindeer, but we have had some visiting at work this week!

Some final Sunsets for the Year

Some final Sunsets for the Year

Reading Time: < 1 minutes We do love a good sunset here, and as we approach the turn of the year again, here’s just a few more that I have found lying about on the hard drives, in and amongst other sets this year.

Freaky Macro, Prawns and Pumpkins

Freaky Macro, Prawns and Pumpkins

Reading Time: 2 minutes Part of the structure of the fish-eye lens functions as a magnifier, and along with this I have picked up some other magnifying lenses. These are a cheap and ceerful way to get macro photography effects, by acting simply like a magnifying glass in the 

Night Time Panorama

Night Time Panorama

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick one. had a quick go at stitching together a panorama today, of the view from my office window over campus. I’m quite pleased with how this has turned out.

Fish Eyes on Hyde Park

Fish Eyes on Hyde Park

Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been playing a little more with the fish eye adapter. We got the chance to visit the old St Marks church in Woodhouse where I again had the same issues as in the London Underground, with lack of light. Some more interesting shots 

Shooting the Moon

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…

Happy Hallowe’en

Happy Hallowe’en

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Happy Hallowe’en everyone. I hope it’s spooky for you.

Mushroom Season

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

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

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

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

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