300

I'm just putting a storybook album together for a recent golden wedding celebration I covered when I decided to post this shot we took just before the guests arrived, I say we as this shot was actually the work of my assistant, I take credit for telling her the settings she needed but the actual composition was all hers.
I edited the shot in lightroom to give an effect similar to those typical of the film "300" which is high contrast and heavy use of vignetting, I think it's a great shot for an introduction for the album.

Merry Christmas Boxing Fans

Check out the date and time, I was up super early to open some presents but more importantly to edit some photos!These were some I took yesterday as an impromptu boxing match broke out after my nephew watched Rocky III, it wasn't the fairest of contests by any stretch of the imagination, I would estimate a weight difference of around 11 stone (154 Lbs) but the little one managed to tuck his opponent up with some lightning left jabs before unleashing his hammer right cross square to the jaw. The second image showed how this electric fighter had the crowd in absolute pandemonium.
It seems in this contest of David and Goliath, David not only triumphed but Goliath ended up eating his Christmas pudding through a straw!

I would go into detail about how these shots were taken and processed but it is Christmas morning and I have a few errands to run, Merry Christmas.

Blea Tarn

It's been a while since my last post, the weather hasn't been the best for landscapes recently and this weekend was no exception. I went to the lake district to try and get some pictures of the Langdales and the surrounding area but there wasn't much break in the cloud cover so everything was a little flat. I did go to a nice owl sanctuary at Muncaster Castle and the ride over Wrynose and Hardnott passes heading towards Wast water is not to be missed. There are plenty of locations just a few minutes walk from the road in the central lakes, this is Blea Tarn with great langdale in the distance. I was doing quite a few long exposures with a 3 stop ND filter to get the water to have that milky look. This was taken at f/16 for 30 seconds, 28mm at ISO100.