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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Back by popular demand

I was never away anyroad, just rather busy with 'life'.

Labels: drypool, drypool bridge, historic, hull, landscape, monochrome

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Saturday, April 09, 2011

York, late November 2010 just before the 'big freeze'.part 2

Labels: Architecture, hdr, historic, monochrome, tower, York, yorkshire

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York, late November 2010 just before the 'big freeze'.

Labels: hdr, historic, landscape, monochrome, ouse, tower, wintry, York, yorkshire

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Monday, November 01, 2010

Spurn Light Vessel

Labels: historic, hull, hull marina, nautical, spurn light vessel

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Old Town street

Labels: east yorkshire, historic, hull, old town

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Harrogate September '09 photostream

Labels: Architecture, betty's tea rooms, foliage, harrogate, hdr, historic, landscape, yorkshire

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Carrick Castle, Loch Goil

Labels: black and white, hdr, historic, landscape, loch goil, scotland

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

York Boer War memorial in HDR

It's my 3rd visit to York in successive years and I can't believe I've only just spotted this huge monument to York's fallen in the Boer War. It's in a tree covered garden, in the shadow of York Minster and is architecturally a world away from most of the much simpler memorials you see commemorating the dead of the 'Great War' onwards, in towns and cities of the UK.

The lighting was way too contrasty to capture using a single exposure, so I manipulated the RAW file, created 4 files with differing exposures and combined them using an HDR program. The resultant image is a little surreal, but you get to see the detail that you can't capture any other way.

Labels: BOER WAR, foliage, hdr, historic, memorial, tower, York

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Thursday, September 04, 2008

Maritime decay - Victoria Dock, Hull

Weather wise, the last few days have been appalling, wet and windy, no good for a photographer, especially someone badly in need of inspiration such as myself. I had hoped to visit the East Yorkshire coast, weather permitting I'll do that next week.

In the meantime I spent most of this afternoon in Hull's 'Maritime Quarter', what's left of it. I took these images of Victoria Dock, or rather what used to be the dock. Most of it has been 'gentrified' by developers, and a good job they seem to have done. Housing predominates, the locks and most of the original docks are still there, but they're used differently.

These images are of what's left of the old quays, rotting away as wood does. In amongst this are railway lines, twisted, rusting that were apart of the now long since disused docks. They may be an eyesore, a danger even. I guess there isn't the money to either preserve, or demolish the structures? Anyway, while they exist, they are a tangible reminder of Hull's once thriving maritime history.

Labels: decay, historic, hull, hull marina, maritime, victoria dock

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The 'other' Oxford Street

Not the street in London, But in Hull. It's a bit rough.

Labels: abstract, east yorkshire, foliage, historic, hull, industrial, landscape

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Flying the flag on Boxing day

Saint Mary the Virgin, Cottingham

Labels: Architecture, church, cottingham, east yorkshire, historic, hull

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Ruins in the Museum Gardens

Labels: Architecture, historic, urban, York, yorkshire

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Saturday, November 10, 2007

The rain, favourable light, and some interesting architecture....

What could have been a 'washout', a wet Sunday in York, rapidly improved when I visited the York Art Gallery, not far from the Yorkshire Museum Gardens. The art gallery is surprisingly small for a major city (the Ferens in Hull seems much bigger and has more exhibits) but I enjoyed my visit nonetheless. Outside the rain had stopped, took a snap of some Japanese tourists photographing themselves outside the gallery building.

Took this shot of York Minster not long afterwards. The piled up chairs give the image a continental European feel in my opinion. Could be anywhere in France, Belgium for that matter....

Labels: Architecture, church, historic, urban, York, yorkshire

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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Clifford's Tower - York, Exterior late afternoon

Another 'record' shot, but I like the quality of the light. The clocks had just gone back ( it's a Brit thing ), it was a decidedly chilly, late Autumn afternoon.

Labels: Architecture, historic, Nostalgia, tower, urban, York, yorkshire

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