Archive for the ‘Street’ Category
Bicycle Mayhem
Even though people take precautions, sadly it isn’t sometimes enough … This bicycle was securely fastened to a bicycle stand in Buchanan Street, but it didn’t stop it from being stripped .. I was rather lazy for this photograph. I applied a Holga preset in Aperture, because it gave the rather grainy, gritty look I […]
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Gypsy Busker
This old gypsy busker is a frequent sight on Buchanan Street playing tunes straight out of eastern and Central Europe. I finally took her picture today: Taken with a long lens, this has been heavily cropped for compositional reasons. Apart from that, the image needed to be boosted by just over two-thirds of a stop. […]
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Old Door
I passed this old wooden door in Perth this morning. The peeling paint and distressed look was what appealed to me. A little highlight recovery was needed. However, the principal editing was to emphasise the distressed nature of the paint. Definition to maximum and additional Definition along the peeling paint and cracks brought this detail […]
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Rain
This is the view out of my train window at 6.00 am waiting to leave Perth Station. All a bit depressing in summer. I then though that this was such a driech subject that it would look well in balck and white: On this occasion the colour version somehow looks bleaker to me. This was […]
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Old-time shop
Moseying around Perth recently I ran across this shop, whose display of goods provided an interesting mix of textures and objects. It has a timeless quality in black and white. Another E-1/12-60 mm shot developed in Aperture. White balance was adjusted, which warmed the picture up slightly and the black point was moved slightly right. […]
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Playing for Pennies
In the current economic climate it somehow seems to be appropriate to be busking outside a building society. This couple were certainly enjoying themselves, although they weren’t making their fortune. This E1 photograph has had minimal processing in Aperture. It has been cropped very slightly. The exposure has been increased slightly and the black point […]
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Cycling Home
It was a beautiful summer evening on the Broomielaw next to the Clyde in Glasgow. Lots of people were sunbathing on the new pedestrianised area: a good evening to be cycling home: A GX200 image, this was converted from raw in RPP and imported as a jpeg to Aperture, where all subsequent adjustments were carried […]
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Waiting for the train
Waiting for the train at Covent Garden tube station, she seemed somehow anxious. Worried about missing it, or not getting to where she wanted to? Who knows, but for a short moment she stood still enough for a slow exposure to capture her in the difficult lighting underground. This GX200 shot was shot at 35 […]
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Busking
Busking is a long and honourable tradition in London. However, I have rarely heard or seen such an adept performance as that of this quartet playing classical music in Covent Garden. They expressed a real sense of fun, for example playing Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ while parodying the dance. This is not easy to do if you […]
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Elephant Parade
London was full of elephants when I visited. Sometimes they were lone tuskers, sometimes they were in small herds.y were ubiquitous. From standing by the Thames, through the famous shopping streets of London to the heart of Covent Garden the Sadly they were only artistic models, decorated and sponsored to draw attention to the plight […]
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One Picture, One Day 