Tag: Leeds

Cold Winter Campus all lit up

Cold Winter Campus all lit up

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s getting towards the end of the year, and with my birthday and Christmas looming, the day job is done until January. I always like the feel of the Uiversity Campus in winter, the Christmas Tree, the Lights – I thought I’d just bring my …

Leeds at Night

Leeds at Night

Reading Time: 2 minutesJust a little photoset post really. It’s rare I end up with my camera in the City Centre at night, to be honest it’s rare I end up in the city centre at night, so it was nice to be able to get the Canon …

Photocamp 2013

Photocamp 2013

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s been a busy weekend here. I must confess I was a little apprehensive about all this. Not really by choice, but simply because I haven’t really found many people as obsessed as I am with taking pictures , much of my photography has been …

Light Night 2013

Light Night 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesJust a quick few from light night this year. Not feeling overly inspired to say much, but it’s kind of a tradition to at least post a few…

Thwaite Mills and Post Industrial Regeneration

Thwaite Mills and Post Industrial Regeneration

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been deveoping quite an interest in photographing some of Leeds Industrial Heritage, and of course we have a fair set of museums which are quite good for entertaining small children. One of these, though a fair way out and only open occasionally is Thwaite …

ISS Flyby

ISS Flyby

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a photographer, like anything, there is always a possibility that nature will not play ball. I think this rates highly as one of those. The International Space Station actually passes quite frequently and visibly, but this was supposedly a good show, where it would …

Unity Day Program

Unity Day Program

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of my images featuring on the Programme for this year’s Hyde Park Unity Day… Be There.

Image Tutorial – ‘Heading North, Heading Home’

Image Tutorial – ‘Heading North, Heading Home’

Reading Time: 8 minutesToday I would like to share a tutorial about how I made one of my recent images – ‘Heading North, Heading Home’. My idea for this image was something a little crunchy – not fully crisp and bright, but blending the dirt of a northern …

Hallowe’en, Mush

Hallowe’en, Mush

Reading Time: 2 minutesI got a tip off about this event, that a couple of contacts were playing at, that it may be worth a photography blag, which was successful. I’d not really been aware of Mush before, but it was a good blend of harder music and …

Light Night 2011

Light Night 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesI went out to Light Night this year with the intent of doing quite a lot of photography, and indeed I did get quite a few interesting images on film cameras, which will be posted as and when. I spent quite a lot of time, …

Always carry a camera…

Always carry a camera…

Reading Time: 3 minutesAlways carry a camera. This is about the most basic piece of advice for any photographer, and one that I did nor follow today, due to being half asleep this morning. I thought about it as I left, but decided I couldn’t be bothered going back to …

Cool Monochrome

Cool Monochrome

Reading Time: 3 minutesI decided to load the little Franka AF-300 Plastic Camera I found in Scarborough with some black and white film – Fuji Neopan 100. This is (as the name suggests) an ISO 100 Monochrome film, with fine grain and as you can see from these …