Tag: photography

  • Dusseldorf and Hamburg

    This month’s photo trip was to Dusseldorf and Hamburg. The weather was mostly terrific and I managed to photograph a number of different buildings. Top of the list was the Hyatt hotel which has a wonderful staircase leading to the sky. I hadn’t realised that the central part of the stairway can be raised to…

  • Gold for Gushet, and film failure.

    I just received a nice salon result. At the Midland Counties International Salon of Photography I was awarded a gold medal and two ribbons. The gold medal feels very special, it’s the first of my Glasgow Gushet series to be accepted and the first to get an award. I blogged about taking these pictures earlier,…

  • Trip to Romania

    I got back a couple of weeks ago from a week in Romania shooting forgotten and abandoned buildings; everything from spas to mausoleums, stately homes and castles. Dracula wasn’t at home but we had a look at his castle. All the images were taken on shift lenses – the Laomi 15mm and the Samyang 24mm.…

  • New York, New York…

    This is the city that I most wanted to revisit. For a photographer of architecture, New York has it all.  It is the home of skyscrapers, the Manhattan skyline, brownstones, movie and TV locations and a constantly evolving cityscape where the new is always updating the old.  Evolution at work, it’s an amazing city to…