Foureyes

May 26th, 2008

Found this little chap sitting on the window sill. I think it’s a Zebra (jumping) spider, showing two of his four pairs of eyes (and you can just see another one toward the back on the right). It was only around 4mm across.

Spider

Dirty City

April 8th, 2008

I quite like the effect of over-enhancing the contrast here. It gives a grainy industrial look to these structures in London. I used a similar effect with the building below which suggests urban decay and dereliction.

HMS Belfast

March 8th, 2008

Added some shots taken at the London museum ship HMS Belfast to my main gallery here.

Poland to Salisbury

February 21st, 2008

Shown here at Salisbury Cathedral, this group of figures carved by artist Robert Koenig are ending a journey taken by his mother in 1942 from Poland to the German Nazi slave labour camps and on to the UK where she settled. More of my cathedral shots here.

Spinnaker Tower

February 16th, 2008

Rising 170 metres (557 feet) above Portsmouth harbour, the elegant and sculptural Spinnaker Tower was inspired by the shape of a sail. Building costs totalled just over 35 million pounds. In the first shot below, the black rectangle at the top is the largest glass floor in Europe. More of my Portsmouth photos here.

Bletchley Park

February 4th, 2008

Added some shots taken at the wartime codebreaking establishment Bletchley Park to my main gallery here.

Intimate lemon

February 3rd, 2008

Looking like something captured by an endoscope, it’s actually just half a lemon (with a bit of processing in Paint Shop Pro).

Hidden stars

January 30th, 2008

It’s amazing how many more stars the camera picks up then the human eye. Here’s a shot straight from camera, which is more or less how it looked to the eye.

Here’s the same shot (cropped a little) processed to bring out the fainter stars. Of course it helps if you’re in an area with low light pollution from street lights etc. I took this in Snowdonia.

Hampton Court gardens

January 27th, 2008


Detail from wall decoration


Looking vertically from the bottom of a wall alcove


Steps


Decoration on gate


Detail from gate

Snowdonia

January 6th, 2008

Added some shots taken in Snowdonia to my main gallery here.