Title: Picture Window
Location: Barbican, London
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 75-300mm USM IS
Notes: Out on an evening photowalk around London Wall, the reflection of the Barbican towers in the windows of an office block caught my eye. I love all the distortion – and the colour contrast between the two buildings.
Question Mark
Title: Question Mark
Location: De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 24-85mm EF
Notes: One of my favourite shots from the Da La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, a masterpiece of Art Deco architecture. The spiral staircase is fascinating.
Gehry’s Guggenheim II
Title: Gehry’s Guggenheim II
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 24-85mm EF
Notes: A bright red coloured poster advertising the latest exhibition hung above the entrance to the Guggenheim museum. The deep blue sky and colours from the poster were refelected in the titanium skin of the building.
F1 Comes To Town
Title: F1 Comes To Town
Location: Regents Street, London
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Tamron 70-210mm EF
Notes: There was only ever one car on the track at a time, so I decided to make this montage from several shots to show what might happen if the Grand Prix ever came to the streets of London.
Floral Details II
Title: Floral Details II
Location: Wivenhoe, Essex
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 50mm EF + 12mm Extension tubes
Notes: A shallow depth of field produced three flower heads in varying stages of focus. I like the suggestion of other blossoms behind the main subject.
End Of The Rainbow
Title: End Of The Rainbow
Location: Margaretting, Essex
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 18-55mm EF-S
Notes: Driving home form work on evening, I noticed the deeply forbidding clouds just as the sun came out and illuminated the golden yellow field of rape. The rainbow arced into the sky, and I had to shelter under an enormous umbrella to take my picture.
The Racing Line
Title: The Racing Line
Location: Brands Hatch
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 100-300mm USM
Notes: A difficult shot to get just one car, completely in the frame, when they are coming round the corner very fast and you have a long lens fitted – it took quite a few laps to get this right!
Ten Clean Bottles
Title: Ten Clean Bottles
Location: Co. Leitrim, Ireland
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / 28-105mm EF USM
Notes: The red paintwork attracted my attention on this old cottage in Ireland.
First Adventure With A DSLR
In February 2004 I got my first Digital SLR – a Canon EOS300D, about the same time a friend also got one, and we spent a great day roaming about on the South Bank in London. Here are my best shots from the day:
Title: Proximity
Location: City of London
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 18-55mm EF
Notes: I was interested in the juxtaposition of styles here – the venerable old stone Georgian architecture, in close proximity to the sleek modern glass of the Gherkin.
Title: Movie Tag
Location: London Bridge
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 18-55mm EF
Notes: Walking across London Bridge, I came across this graffiti tag which had been scrawled on the shiny metal handrail. I liked the colour pop treatment.
Title: Life Imitates Art
Location: South Bank
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 18-55mm EF
Notes: The real tree is the art, or is it the artificial one?
Title: A Girl In Pink
Location: South Bank
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 18-55mm EF
Notes: I was lining up my shot of City Hall when she came trotting down the stairs. Colour pop again emphasised her and made her stand out from the blue tones background.
Title: House Of The Rising Sun
Location: Tate Modern, London
Camera: Canon EOS 300D / Canon 18-55mm EF
Notes: The Weather Exhibition was an installation in the spectacular main Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank. A fast ISO equivalent film speed helped to capture the misty atmosphere in the hall.
Beach Stroller
Title: Beach Stroller
Location: Bournemouth
Camera: Canon EOS 50E
Film: Kodak Gold 200
Notes: This was an opportunistic shot as the afternoon drew to a close on a crisp November day in 2003. I was in Bournemouth for the evening and took a walk along to Prom to see what I could see. This lady pushing her baby in a buggy along the wet sand was my reward.