Sun sets behind the evocative ruins of Grosnez Castle on the Northwestern tip of Jersey, one of the British Channel Islands.
Sunset at Grosnez
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Tag Archives: landscape
Fort Grey
I have done battle with the binding machine and submitted the hard copies of my dissertation. It is well and truly done.
I have already visited a few blogs and have plans to visit many more – I have missed the fun of sharing this great hobby with other enthusiasts. I have lots of plans, plenty of photographic projects in the pipeline. But I also want to share some of the photos I took during our holiday to the Channel Islands this year. This is Fort Grey, on Guernsey’s West coast. Inside, there is a fascinating shipwreck museum which I heartily recommend. It is never easy trying to do landscape photography on a family holiday. At this location I noticed the best viewpoint of all just as we were driving away and couldn’t bring myself to ask the family to stop again while I captured it. This will have to do. Mostly it was too hazy while we were there and there weren’t enough clouds to make interesting sunsets, but this evening was an exception.
Dancing poppies
Through the dancing poppies stole
A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.– John Keats, Endymion, Book 1, l.565
Poppies in the evening
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide,
The poppy’s bonfire spread.
Bayard Taylor, Poems of the Orient, The Poet in the East, Stanza 4
Surrey poppies
A field in the heart of Surrey.
Seahouses sunrise
I am still working on my review of the Fuji X-E1. In the meantime, here’s a shot from 2009 of sunrise over the pond at Seahouses in Northumberland. This was perhaps the beginning of me taking landscape photography seriously, well seriously enough to get up at dawn, which is pretty early in this country in July! Taken using my first DSLR, the Canon D400, plus kit lens.
Blazing reflections
I am honoured to have this photograph featured as image of the day at Photobotos, where I explain a little more about it.
My first exhibition
I am excited to have some of my images included in this forthcoming exhibition. If you are in the neighbourhood, I would love it if you could pop by. Follow this link for more information.
I don’t yet know which images have been selected by the exhibition curators. Here are a few of the possibilities:
Last Light at Kimmeridge
The Cobb at Lyme
Dunstanburgh Castle
View from City Point, Moorgate.
Storm Approaching Birling Gap
Cobb Cottages
Blue hour, La Corbiere
If my images don’t float your boat, there will be lots of others that might, and some beautiful paintings and sculpture.
Summer dream
Well, the promised snow didn’t arrive. Instead, sleet and yet more rain. So I consoled myself with editing some more images from our wonderful trips in August and October to the Channel Island of Jersey.
Might have to go back again this year…
Dartmoor at dusk
Sunset over Dartmoor National Park
Yesterday, I shared an image I took on New Year’s Day at Dartmoor National Park. Despite having lived in this country for most of my life, I am ashamed to say this was my first visit to the Park. I will be back!
Haytor, Dartmoor
We hiked to two of the many rocky outcrops, known as ‘tors’, Haytor and Hound Tor, the latter thought to be the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes adventure, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Hound Tor, Dartmoor
I left my trusty Canon 5Diii at home and took instead the Sony NEX-7 I was testing. A compact system camera packing a whopping 24 megapixel sensor, it is a fraction of the size and weight of my DSLR and made a far less demanding hiking companion. But there are compromises, both in terms of ease of use and image quality. Although you cannot see at this size, these images, all taken at ISO 400 are far noisier than my DSLR would have taken. More tomorrow.
Focused Moments 