Blogs tagged "Canal"

The thing many people like so much about Amsterdam, is the many canals. (There's a reason why it's sometimes called The Venice of the North, I suppose.) Well, I'm one of those people, I love those canals. They make the typical Amsterdam look. And of course they look even better when you can c...

I don’t think that this is quite as striking an image as yesterday’s, but I do like to make the most of these subtle winter colours, so I headed back to the canal basin this evening to see how it looked at the end of the day. It features the same boats, and in the position as they were in yest...

The trouble I have found with this project is being prepared, or should I say un prepared. How much stuff to carry around, what shot to take, all these things add to it, well I have ditched them, for the time being anyway. I have downloaded an app for my android and it is fab, so easy and simple to...

I walked back along the canal today after a visit to the post office. I didn't take my camera but spotted a cluster of fungi in the hedgerow. I always carry the iPhone so it was time to get the Hipstamatic out. Thankfully it takes decent close ups. This was with the camera resting on the floor I cou...

Plan A was to photograph tonight's lunar eclipse, but with all the will in the world, and no access to the largest wind machine in the universe, the cloud isn't going to shift. So there's no moon and I need a plan b. Fortunately I took one photo this evening on my way back from the post office. A qu...

"Never shoot into the sun" was something you were always told not to do. That was in the days of standard coated lenses with minimal exposure control. The modern cameras are pretty good at coping, as can be seen here with the Olympus EP2 and its 17mm f/2.8 lens. I took this tonight when I...

Another shot from a series I'm building on historical building around Worksop/Sheffield This is Smiths Flour Mill owned by one of the largest independent flour millers in the UK. Worksop has been their head office since 1906. It's the back end taken from Canal Road with Chesterfield Canal in the fo...

Hi Well off work on holiday, and yet had to go in for a short time, it gave me the excuse to get out after that and have a wander along Hythe seafront and back via the Royal Military Canal. So many opportunities to capture some fine shots. The sun slowly sinking gave some amazing colour to the sk...

Easy Cruise that is! Day 3 and I'm having a day off from the women! Four of them can be a bit much... They're lovely really ;) No sleep for the first two days (literally none!) means that I'm just catching up on myself in honesty. Things like the Corinth canal at 0530 yesterday morning, a sight we...