Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
This month certainly started with a bang - we had a spectacular storm last night that's given me another picture for #NAF18. I shall add it to the three night pictures in the Grahamstown Series I've already printed for Metamorphosis. You get such cool colours and effects in night photographs whether it's a moon rise, car... Continue Reading →
In a couple of month's time Grahamstown's Festival Gallery hosts its annual end-of.year exhibition. This year the theme is Summer in Miniatures - artworks have to be no bigger than 30 cms. I've decided to try out a submission with the idea of 'Summer Nights' and use a selection of four night pictures taken this... Continue Reading →
Last night Äsperöd had clear skies with a distant Aurora forecast so I headed up the hill after it eventually got dark. I was looking for a band of green on the northern horizon that merges into pinks and purples before the black of the night sky above. Uddevalla city lights put paid to seeing anything... Continue Reading →
It's been exciting this past couple of weeks seeing everything start to take shape. There will be 19 large format photographs for sale either as limited edition prints or as digital images at reduced size and resolution. A further 20 images from Symmetry in Nature will also be for sale in digital format along with the... Continue Reading →
Night photography allows me to make some unusual images. I lit the forest path below Dassie Krantz with three lights and, by chance, there appeared a blue phosphorescent effect on the thorn tree. Mirroring then gave me this lovely blue portal. Further along the path you have to bend double to get through a really... Continue Reading →
Images taken at low light have always been one of my passions but lately I have been able to take much better images at night. A new camera and lens have helped! So I've been taking milky way pictures and star trails - quite a few have been posted in Instagram using my @roddythefox account.... Continue Reading →
I've been out from home to take night pictures around Grahamstown three times recently when the cloud (preferably no clouds) and wind (preferably no wind or light winds) forecasts were favourable. The moon isn't such a problem as you can use the moonlight to paint the foreground of your picture. Night photos have been a dominant... Continue Reading →
As well as the northern lights I was able to take some lovely pictures of the stars wheeling across the night skies when I was in Sweden. Hundby is a good place to do this as it is right out in the countryside with very few city lights anywhere near. The first picture is a... Continue Reading →
My first day in Tromsø it started to snow - they told me it was the first fall of winter. Whilst it was still daylight I went hiking to the cable-car station through the birch forest and up above the tree line. There was no point going on to the summit beyond as everything was... Continue Reading →
The last night of my brief time in Norway was very clear and cold. I spent a lot of it on the pier that runs right out into Tromsø harbour. It was an ideal spot for night photography as it wasn't too icy (so there was little chance of falling into the frigid ocean!) and... Continue Reading →
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