Metal Trees With Spinning Leaves

Check out my video montage of impressions of wind turbines in Northumberland. I composed a piece of music inspired by these massive structures. I hope you enjoy. I look forward to your comments

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Bending Trees

I created a image called growing towards the light. See it here using freehand movement of the camera. I wanted to revisit this concept with my new Sony A7mkii which I've now had for several months. This time, however, I wanted to use a tripod and 2 heads to give me more consistent movement. This image below is one of the results of that shoot. I had to adjust the various angles of the set up to give me the picture I wanted and this is one of the ones I really like. More thoughts on the Sony A7mkii another time. I'd love to hear your comments. Simon

Olympus OMD EM1 Thoughts

So I had my time with the OMD EM1. Thanks Olympus and Park Cameras for putting such a scheme into place. It's a really nice solid camera. I know it's seen as a small camera by most but I use a Ricoh GR most of the time so for me it actually seemed quite heavy, at least initially. As I said in the post the other day I was mainly looking at the long exposure "Livetime" function to see if it would give me greater flexibility and creative inspiration. Did it do that? Well....not really. My shots are typically 2 to 5 seconds or so. The updates on the screen can only happen at half second intervals. It felt a bit like playing an old video game where the screen refresh rate was really slow so you make adjustments and the when you see the result of those adjustments you've crashed into a wall and exploded into a huge fireball. Granted me moving the camera a bit isn't quite as dramatic but it didn't give me the feeling I wanted. I also found that I was tempted t...

Commended in Sony World Photography Awards 2017

I'm delighted and proud that my image "Fractal Leaves" has been chosen as one of the best 50 images in the motion category in The Sony World Photography Awards 2017 and was selected from 105,692 images from 192 countries. For more information about the awards see their facebook https://www.facebook.com/WorldPhotographyOrganisation/ or website https://www.worldphoto.org/

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