Archive for the ‘Daily Photo’ Category

A sunset from somewhere in the depths of Dartmoor in Devon.

It was a perfect sunset.

Note:  I know my logo is too big in these photos, I’ll be making it smaller soon.

Pick up a holiday brochure featuring the American West and you’ve almost certainly seen this photo, or one very similar to it.

The road is in the bottom right hand corner of Utah, just a few miles north of Monument Valley.  I’ve driven it 4 times now, and each time I stop and take some photos.  The road is quiet, so standing in the middle of it is fairly safe ish.

This particular sunny morning back in October 2009 was the start of my 4th day without any connection with the outside world.  I had no local mobile with me, and my UK Blackberry had been out of service since entering Zion Canyon some days before.  I’d failed, and to be honest not tried very hard to find a wifi spot, so I was totally out of the loop.  Although I was still on schedule, Debra, the model who was waiting for me in Moab for my last photoshoot of my trip, had no idea where I was, or whether I was still going to be there.

Stopping for breakfast in the only place open in a town in the back end of beyond I eventually got a wifi connection, and caught up with the 15 or so emails Debra had sent.  She was in Moab waiting.  Opps!  Lucky we’ve shot several times before so we know each other.  The shoot did actually go rather well.

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Antelope Canyon just outside Page in Arizona is an amazing place.  It’s one of my favourite places to shoot, and also one of the most difficult.

This image makes it look all nice and peaceful.  Truth couldn’t be more different though.  I was sat on the floor, crammed between a several other people and the wall of the canyon, bent over, and trying to get the shot.

Directly behind and to my left, behind held back by the native tour guides, there were probably 40 people, with easily that many again just around the corner in front of me.

To help make the shaft of light visable in the photos people were throwing handfuls of sand into the air. Sand and camera equipment aren’t exactly the best of friends.  Just saying.

Last time I visited about ten years prior I was visiting with my girlfriend and we had the place completely to ourselves.  How time changes places.

I’ve just launched a new website called thisisthepicture.com where I’m offering a select few of my images for sale as canvas prints.

It’s never going to win any awards for beauty, but you still have to be impressed by the sheer size and general ugliness of the Celebrity Eclipse.  Pictured here as it was leaving Southampton a week or so ago.

I photographed this bird in Southampton, and it scares me.  Alot.