Quietus

Quietus, a photo by rothwell172 on Flickr.

Wow, having got round to purchasing myself a set of six Cokin filters, for my landscape photography.

I finally managed to get the combination of exposure bias and length of exposure right for this terrific shot, I love how the colours combine with the light of the sun. Which, was literally setting as I clicked this.

This is definately one for my book, i've taken a few tips and been reading how best to use specific filters for landscape and seascape photography, as you can guess from my style, I like to give my shots a sense of movement.

So the end of a 'Manic Monday', and another day beckons our Olympic heroes, some of course getting a bit of stick on a social media site.

How manic was it then? Well according to the tube reasonably quiet, the buses on Tottenham Court Road, queued waiting for some punters...yeah even the cabbies' had a quiet day.

It is a shame that on a day that we fail to get a medal for diving, it seems we have a negative attitude towards our athletes.

Why oh why, do trolls feel the need to give someone crap, about the athletes performance and no need to give that person about losing a relative. No need at all, shame on you, when it happens to you, you will know then how people really feel when they lose someone.

I just want to finish on a positive the 'famous five' have excelled themselves a true team effort for Team GB, and the British gymnasts make history

Well done lads more like that please!

The Chase

The Chase, a photo by rothwell172 on Flickr.

The Chase I took this last year and now and again I enjoy coming back to certain shots, to get some inspiration or to revisit a particular theme, i've not worked on in a while.

I like the striking colours in the frame, and how it shows the Police chasing another vehicle.

In The Thick Of It

In The Thick Of It, a photo by rothwell172 on Flickr.

Here we see another Kite Surfer, launching back into opposite direction, hence the sea spray!

This is why I love this sport, as i've mentioned earlier in my blog, I love movement especially that of water!

This surfer had certainly given me a fantastic action shot, I love how the spray fills the frame.

Carving

Carving, a photo by rothwell172 on Flickr.

So there I was on the other side near the airport wanting to get some shots, not much was coming out there though and boat museum just seemed like that, a museum...not really exciting!

So I decided to move further down the M53 get something to eat and drink, as I came off at the A554 near Bidston Bridge, I drove towards sunnier climes and eventually New Brighton to be greeted by the sight of the Kites high in the sky, they're was many of them too!

Great I thought, the one sport I love photographing and so they're I was in my element...the thing about these lads and lasses is they enjoy being photographed the fairly competitive and great showmen, this gent even shared a conversation before spinning back towards the sea, here is on a beam reach, so he is sailing in a direction perpendicular to the wind (at a 90° angle).

He commented on the breathtaking view of a rainbow which was just appearing over Merseyside, with the light rain showers, it was as the surfer implied a beautiful sight.

Stay

Stay, a photo by rothwell172 on Flickr.

Another fine example of the Ilford Pan F 50 film, the contrast and low smooth grain film is superb for texture close-ups like this one pictured.

Movement

Movement has always fascinated me, whether it be a runner, a cyclist, a car, a climber or even the movement of the most beautiful and the most strong in terms of how it can change and shape the world we live in.

The movement of water has been constant from it's source at sea level to the higher plains of glacial level, water is always evolving always changing, it what drives us to live where we do near water, for it is a source that all that dwell on the planet come from the very water, that has created this planet.

I love to photograph water, and luckily for myself and others, we live on an island surrounded by water, which puzzles me, why do we have satellite navigation when we live on an island?

Anyways back to the point of this post; as you know I've been clicking away everyday or so shooting in analogue or digital, mainly in analogue for my month with monochrome.

Well I've just recently developed a series of images that were taken on Ilford PAN F 50, a great film to use for portraiture and certainly for landscapes and that of moving water. In this frame, I took to the gorges of Wales one in particular is privy to a series of steps through the Welsh landscape, and in this shot taken near Betwys-Y-Coed, is a lovely Welsh idyll of the famous Faerie Glen.

The first thing you will notice in the image is how striking, the water is when used on Pan F 50, I love the slow swirling mass around the eddies in the flow of the water, the movement of the water in the Welsh landscape is very significant, partly because most of Wales is ageing volcanic mass, Llanddwyn Island is mostly made of volcanic rock, and partly because Wales or in this case Britain has been shaped by the movement of glaciers, these glaciers have long since gone in their solid form, but they still exist in their liquid form.

Okay they're not nearly as big as the glaciers found in the Canadian Rockies, Athabasca Glacier but you get the idea that through climate change and it surely is a natural process! Wales has been shaped by the flow of the water through the many rivers and gorges, that wind they're way into neighbouring England River Severn is one example of this, and the M48 Bridge that separates the estuary River Wye .

They're many rivers and gorges that shape their way through Britain, they're all fantastic to photograph and I for one, will certainly be parting my hard earned money for a bulk buy of Ilford PAN F 50 film.