The best magic in photography seems so often to come from the unexpected. After watching the magnificent end-of-festival fireworks from Edinburgh’s Calton Hill, the folly suddenly struck me as looking fantastic (in the literal sense of the word) and so I quickly retrieved the beloved 40D and had a go. My “standard” 17-85 IS was...
I had a lovely day in Crail today with a friend, taking photographs and eating cakes naturally. The sky was only just south of crap for photography, and so I resorted to the sensible photographer’s trick of totally excluding the sky from my shots. A telephoto zoom, in this case my 70-300 is ideal for...
Raining again all day, so I went to Glasgow instead. This is the view from the roof of the Buchanan Galleries car park. They have surrounded the roof with a high screen so that you need to use “live view” and hold the camera above the screen. I haven’t seen a nice sunset here for...
Bike riding self-portrait. Don’t try this at home folks, the wonder of my little Canon Ixus 100 is that I can keep it in my cycling top pockets. I couldn’t resist whipping it out and pointing it at myself while riding. I swung into a long layby for this one knowing that while I was...
Continuing with my series of second choices from my 100 portraits project of last year. Breege met me in the botanic gardens in Glasgow, (a frequent choice for my subjects), and we spent a fair amount of time playing with this colourful bush to bring colour and depth into the portrait. It was fun going...
