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Showing posts with label Panoramic Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panoramic Photography. Show all posts
Monday, 3 January 2011
Panoramic Photography: Halifax By Night. 2nd January 2011
It's been ages since I went out and did some proper landscape photography so I decided to go out early on Sunday morning to catch the dawn rising over the valleys around Halifax and Bradford. As it happened, it was a bit too cloudy and therefore not a very interesting light. However, I did take a few shots of Halifax town centre from the hill up into Southowram while it was still dark. It's very theraputic going out at the crack of dawn (or before) when there is no-one about to photograph the local landscape. I should make it my New Year's resolution to do it more often!
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Travel Photography: Channel Islands - Herm & Sark
Week 2 (Continued) - July 24th-31st: Herm & Sark
During our week on Guernsey, we decided to explore a couple of the other nearby islands, Herm & Sark, both of which are known for being beautiful and peaceful (there are no cars on either of them) and also for being wildlife havens.
We were really lucky with the weather on both days and both islands more than lived up to their reputations. Sark in particular is breathtaking (see below)!
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Herm: Antony Gormley's sculpture, "Another Place XI"
Herm: The ferry (obviously)!
Herm: The view across to Jethou island with Guernsey in the distance.
Herm: Fisherman's Beach
Herm: Fisherman's Beach
Herm: From the ferry
Jethou: From the Herm ferry
Sark: Grand Greve Bay from the causeway (La Coupee)
The causeway from Big Sark to Little Sark, known as La Coupee was built in 1945 by German prisoners of war. It is 9ft wide, just over 100ft long and there is a 300ft drop on both sides to the sea. There wasn't a breath of wind the day we were there and it still felt like walking a tightrope! What an amazing place!
Sark: Grand Greve Bay from La Coupee.
Sark: La Coupee viewed from the East
During our week on Guernsey, we decided to explore a couple of the other nearby islands, Herm & Sark, both of which are known for being beautiful and peaceful (there are no cars on either of them) and also for being wildlife havens.
We were really lucky with the weather on both days and both islands more than lived up to their reputations. Sark in particular is breathtaking (see below)!
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Herm: Antony Gormley's sculpture, "Another Place XI"
Herm: The ferry (obviously)!
Herm: The view across to Jethou island with Guernsey in the distance.
Herm: Fisherman's Beach
Herm: Fisherman's Beach
Herm: From the ferry
Jethou: From the Herm ferry
Sark: Grand Greve Bay from the causeway (La Coupee)
The causeway from Big Sark to Little Sark, known as La Coupee was built in 1945 by German prisoners of war. It is 9ft wide, just over 100ft long and there is a 300ft drop on both sides to the sea. There wasn't a breath of wind the day we were there and it still felt like walking a tightrope! What an amazing place!
Sark: Grand Greve Bay from La Coupee.
Sark: La Coupee viewed from the East
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Travel Photography: Channel Islands - Guernsey
Week 2 - July 24th-31st: Guernsey
The ferry trip across to Guernsey is quite an experience, not like the school french exchange trips on the old Townsend Thoresen or Sealink ferries, when you spent 8 hours sitting on your luggage chucking up into a paper bag.
No, there's none of that now. The sleek Condor catamarans get you there in just over 2 hours, hardly giving you time to look round the duty-free shop!
Guernsey and the nearby islands of Herm and Sark are wonderful places for a holiday, at least they are when the sun is shining (which it seems to do most of the time).
The 2nd World War looms large everywhere you go. The coastline is full of German observation towers, gun emplacements & bunkers and there are several fascinating museums dedicated to the occupation of the islands. There are loads of secluded little bays with sandy beaches and towering cliffs and I've never seen as many flowers & butterflies anywhere.
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St Peter Port from just outside the harbour with Castle Cornet on the left.
Just to give you an idea of just how many yachts there are in St Peter Port harbour!
Petit Bot Bay on the south coast
Pebbles on the beach at Petit Bot
Fort Grey in Rocquaine Bay on the west coast, known locally as The Cup & Saucer. One of many Napoleonic era forts dotted around the island.
The German WWII coastal observation tower at Pleinmont. Most of the WWII defences are still in pretty good condition because the occupying forces surrendered without a fight in May 1945. This particular tower has been completely restored to its original wartime condition with all its internal fittings and equipment.
Another nice piece of German architecture. This time it's an enormous underground military hospital in the middle of the island.
The Little Chapel, reputed to be the smallest working place of worship in Britain. We kept hearing about this place wherever we went on the island but somehow didn't feel compelled to visit. However Gaynor's sister, Helen, who lives on the island finally persuaded us it was worth seeing - and she was absolutely right! What an amazing place!
The whole of the Little Chapel is covered with pieces of broken china and shells and it was built by a French monk over many years, starting in 1914.
The Little Chapel is a beautiful early example of recycling!
The ferry trip across to Guernsey is quite an experience, not like the school french exchange trips on the old Townsend Thoresen or Sealink ferries, when you spent 8 hours sitting on your luggage chucking up into a paper bag.
No, there's none of that now. The sleek Condor catamarans get you there in just over 2 hours, hardly giving you time to look round the duty-free shop!
Guernsey and the nearby islands of Herm and Sark are wonderful places for a holiday, at least they are when the sun is shining (which it seems to do most of the time).
The 2nd World War looms large everywhere you go. The coastline is full of German observation towers, gun emplacements & bunkers and there are several fascinating museums dedicated to the occupation of the islands. There are loads of secluded little bays with sandy beaches and towering cliffs and I've never seen as many flowers & butterflies anywhere.
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St Peter Port from just outside the harbour with Castle Cornet on the left.
Just to give you an idea of just how many yachts there are in St Peter Port harbour!
Petit Bot Bay on the south coast
Pebbles on the beach at Petit Bot
Fort Grey in Rocquaine Bay on the west coast, known locally as The Cup & Saucer. One of many Napoleonic era forts dotted around the island.
The German WWII coastal observation tower at Pleinmont. Most of the WWII defences are still in pretty good condition because the occupying forces surrendered without a fight in May 1945. This particular tower has been completely restored to its original wartime condition with all its internal fittings and equipment.
Another nice piece of German architecture. This time it's an enormous underground military hospital in the middle of the island.
The Little Chapel, reputed to be the smallest working place of worship in Britain. We kept hearing about this place wherever we went on the island but somehow didn't feel compelled to visit. However Gaynor's sister, Helen, who lives on the island finally persuaded us it was worth seeing - and she was absolutely right! What an amazing place!
The whole of the Little Chapel is covered with pieces of broken china and shells and it was built by a French monk over many years, starting in 1914.
The Little Chapel is a beautiful early example of recycling!
Monday, 9 August 2010
Travel Photography: Cornwall And Devon
Week 1 - July 17th-24th: Cornwall & Devon
OK, I know, there's nothing more boring than having to sit through someone else's holiday photos but I thought I'd just share a few of mine.
I decided just to take my D80 with its 18-135mm kit lens and nothing else (it was supposed to be a holiday after all and I didn't fancy lugging my heavy D300 about for 2 weeks!). So there was no getting up at the crack of dawn, no waiting around for hours to get the best light, no filters, no arty shallow depth of field, no flash... just the basic camera and whatever happened to be in front of me at the time! I decided panoramas were probably the best way to get some impressive results - see what you think!
I came to the conclusion that the D80 is a belting camera and although I might perhaps have been better just taking my 50mm f1.8 lens and doing everything panoramically, the kit lens gave some really nice results.
We were based at the beautiful cottage below for the first week in the tiny village of Luckett, just on the Cornwall side of the border with Devon and, as you can see, the weather was glorious - most of the time!
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Widemouth Bay, near Bude. By the way, that is a real person looking out to sea, not one of Antony Gormley's figures (although we did actually see one of those, "Another Time XI", on Herm Island on the second week of our hols).
Dartmouth
Dartmouth
Mevagissey Harbour
Boscastle Harbour
To follow - Week 2: Guernsey, Sark & Herm
OK, I know, there's nothing more boring than having to sit through someone else's holiday photos but I thought I'd just share a few of mine.
I decided just to take my D80 with its 18-135mm kit lens and nothing else (it was supposed to be a holiday after all and I didn't fancy lugging my heavy D300 about for 2 weeks!). So there was no getting up at the crack of dawn, no waiting around for hours to get the best light, no filters, no arty shallow depth of field, no flash... just the basic camera and whatever happened to be in front of me at the time! I decided panoramas were probably the best way to get some impressive results - see what you think!
I came to the conclusion that the D80 is a belting camera and although I might perhaps have been better just taking my 50mm f1.8 lens and doing everything panoramically, the kit lens gave some really nice results.
We were based at the beautiful cottage below for the first week in the tiny village of Luckett, just on the Cornwall side of the border with Devon and, as you can see, the weather was glorious - most of the time!
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Widemouth Bay, near Bude. By the way, that is a real person looking out to sea, not one of Antony Gormley's figures (although we did actually see one of those, "Another Time XI", on Herm Island on the second week of our hols).
Dartmouth
Dartmouth
Mevagissey Harbour
Boscastle Harbour
To follow - Week 2: Guernsey, Sark & Herm
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