The merits of carrying my 500D and a fast 50mm f1.4 everywhere. These portraits took about 5 minutes to snatch from an otherwise non-photographic day.
I took this on a whim while visiting some truly amazing people at Edinburgh University this week. The building is called St John’s Land and something about the interplay of the building’s symmetry juxtaposed against the offset drainpipes appealed to me. As you know architecture is not my specialism, but variety is good for a...
Who is this devastatingly handsome Canadian I hear you ask? Well it’s none other than my colleague and friend Jim Craigen. I posted a picture of jim in a candid moment a few postings ago and joked that he looked like a TV detective. Well Jim has been in Scotland since then and on the...
This was my 2nd favourite shot from Jess’s session during my 100 portraits project. It was done in the cloisters at Glasgow University and provided my firstreal taste of deeply interesting light. I seek out side sources of light now if I can find them, but I was still learning then. This was at ISO...
You know how you can either get lucky or horribly unlucky with who you get placed next to on a flight. Well this wonderful person happened to be billeted next to me on the otherwise tedious transatlantic hop from Toronto to London. Caroline is a seriously good singer and a world class conversationalist with a...
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Great shots, Newhaven Lighthouse?
The very same Dick! I presume you know it well.
I’m both a bit of a lighthouse anorak and I was brought up about 500 yards from it for the first 10 years or so.
These are lovely Matthew…I especially like the second and third from the top images, very enigmatic, but they are all very beautiful.
I love these shots – especially 2 and 3. I love lighthouses too.
Matthew, just trying to catch up on your postings. For some reason my RSS reader is not picking up new postings of yours. Don’t know if you remember, but I followed you during your 100 Portraits project and found that very entertaining AND informative. I love your displaying the side head shots of Annie in the three different styles. It really makes one realize that an otherwise very similar pose can have quite a different effect even if all are posed the same way (and these, obviously, are not actually) but rendered in color, b&w, or sepia. I have gotten away from experimenting with b&w and have never really done anything in sepia, but your images are making me rethink that!
Thanks, as always!
Bill Booz
Charlottesville, VA USA