It is amazing the colours you can find within a normally bland image when you push the processing of the image to the extremes.
Here is a shot straight out of camera of a wave breaking on part of an old Groyne.
Unprocessed Breaking Wave
Here is the processed image after some time and effort in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Breaking Wave With Attitude
Its strange what you can see when you are wandering round a large event like Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park in london.
I was looking for shots with mainly people as the focal point, however due to the large crowds all the images looked far too cluttered and messy I could not isolate the subjects as I normal like to.
So not getting much joy with the people side of things I decided to look for other interesting shots.
Here is one of an interesting Bottle Opener that I found.
I like the detail of the Bottle opener against the jumbled colours of the background.
London offers up a vast amount of subject matter for a photographer, subject matter ranges from Candids, Buildings, Landscapes, cityscapes and detail shots. Everything from the out of the ordinary to the mundane can be of interest. Due to the amount of time I spend in London sometimes I find myself looking for the out of the box subjects.
After a walk along the Southbank one afternoon with very little new subject matter to show for the walk, I deviated off of my normal route and decided to cross the water and walk the North side of the river for a change.
Not far from St Pauls I can across a set of steps that seems to be a favourite place for people to sit during their lunch hour, or it may be that a group of holiday makers or tourists might have taken a breather there? who knows. When I found the steps the only remnants of the people was in the form of their litter, Cigarettes and matches and discarded flyers…..
I liked the composition of the shot due to the flyers leading you out of the shot along with the slight curve of the steps.
Dungeness is littered with fishing boats and sheds used by the fisherman, It is a vast shingle bank that produces great images when the weather is on your side.
Wandering around the shingle banks amid the beached fishing boats and the hulls of the derelict and dishevelled vessels of years gone by your attention is grabbed by shapes, colours and patterns that are everywhere.
This vessel has not seen the water for years and I doubt if it will ever again, paint fading and peeling away and the deck slowly rotting.
Also to be found along the beach are the hand winches and mechanical winches that have been used over the years to drag the vessel back on to the safety of the shingle once the days fishing has been completed and it is time to return home.
It is a question that is asked all the time “What is the best camera…..”
Its a question that has no answer really as all cameras allow you to capture the moment and produce the visual record of the event. Everyone lusts after the latest equipment in the hopes that the vast amounts of money spent will improve the images and take away the need to actually learn how to make do with what you have with you.
I do not always carry my DSLR with me, mainly because it is large and I always want to take everything with me which is rather impractical when I am at work and darting across London. But the one thing I always have in my pocket is the iphone….. Here is a montage of images….. just little things that have captured my eye when I have been walking round London or traveling on rail networks.
Make us of what you have with you……. an image is an image….
Estuary Defence System
The Medway Boom was built at the beginning of WW1 about 1914 and consisted of a vast chain attached at one end to Grain Tower Fort (Martello Battery) on Grain Island across to the southern side at Garrison Point Fort on Sheerness.
It was raised and lowered by a winch on the wharf at the Sheerness dockyards. The chain was removed at the end of WW1 and the Grain Tower Fort placed into ‘care and maintenance’. In WW2 the Fort became an active part of the estuary defence system again with twin 6pdr QF guns being installed as a defence against the fast and very manoeuverable German E-Boat. During this time the Grain Tower Fort Battery had 29 Soldiers in residence at any one time.
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