Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
I say revisited because my first shot of Sólfar was way back in 2013 when we were in Reykjavik for a conference. We had attended a late concert at Harpa and were walking along Sæbraut Road enjoying the grey light over the fjord. We stopped to admire Sólfar (the Sun Voyager) - as most people... Continue Reading →
I thought I would try something a little different with this Chronophotography sequence that I took last week. A Long Crested Eagle had been perching beyond the trees in the old orchard on our plot in Hogsback and eventually settled on a branch just behind the trunk of a dead eucalyptus tree. In spite of... Continue Reading →
It’s been such a long time since I did a light painting shoot with a model - and though it’s something I really enjoy, it can be hard to find a model and then the time and place for the shoot. But early this week the stars aligned and I put up a small set... Continue Reading →
Chronophotography - taking a sequence of images to portray motion - has been around since the mid-nineteenth century. More recently though Spanish photographer Xavi Bou has been making wonderful composite images of birds in flight: he calls them Ornithographies. My own experiments with this style started in early 2020 at the start of the COVID-19... Continue Reading →
Pep's unique style depends on the photographer circling the subject and taking images from all sides before combining them in post processing to form a composite that keeps the recognisable characteristics whilst producing a shimmering, ghostly effect. I like it because you make an image that is both distinct and indistinct at the same time: anchored... Continue Reading →
Cloudscapes have always been one of my photo passions and lately I've been extending my skills using the Olympus Live Composite mode. These dawn and dusk shots of the Hogsback skyline from Wild Fox Hill are the longest I've taken. They're 15 minutes of one second exposures, so each picture is a composite combining 900... Continue Reading →
I was very pleased with the reception to the Juxtaposed Dalarna Landscapes posted previously and that's inspired me to try something similar with the work in the Hogsback gallery I have already published. Hogsback Juxtaposed: SuperMoon Rising In the Dalarna landscapes there's lots of potential to juxtapose images on top of the reflections of the... Continue Reading →
If you've followed posts in this blog or in my social media you'll know that I have a long standing fascination with mirroring and overlaying landscapes and nature. These three pictures are the latest incarnation. We were in Dalarna, Sweden, for the autumn of 2022 and here I've tried to capture - through overlays -... Continue Reading →
There are more images of birds than anything else in my Room of Dreams 3D virtual exhibition. It's already open though Fringe Exhibitions @naf2022 don't start until June 23. Once the hard COVID lockdown started in March 2020 I was restricted to the house and garden and so I taught myself how to use the... Continue Reading →
My landscape and nature photography are at this year's National Arts Festival in an immersive 3D virtual exhibition hosted by oarbt.com. It has four walls of dreams and each one has a different theme: the Lockdown Sunbirds; the King Proteas; the Cloud Abstracts and the Lockdown Landscapes. The images were selected from the fine art... Continue Reading →
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