42mm, 1/13s, f/5, ISO 400
Showing posts with label Stoke-on-Trent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stoke-on-Trent. Show all posts
Friday, 23 December 2011
Thursday 22nd December 2011
Home grown parsnips, all ready for Christmas dinner! I'm quite proud of these, the ones on top are a little straggly but the ones on the bottom are good, strong, shapely parsnips, not as thick as the ones you get in the shops but they smell amazing.
42mm, 1/13s, f/5, ISO 400
42mm, 1/13s, f/5, ISO 400
Friday, 16 December 2011
Saturday 10th December 2011
The Florence Colliery Band, playing valiantly in the freezing cold to an audience of 1 (and two more on the telephone)!
130mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 400
130mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 400
Friday, 9 December 2011
Sunday 4th December 2011
Saggy roof tiles housing the workshops and steam engine at the Etruria Canal Museum.
85mm, 1/13s, f/8, ISO 400
85mm, 1/13s, f/8, ISO 400
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Wednesday 16th November 2011
This is Saint Werburgh's Parish Church on High Lane, Burslem. It was built in 1953 to replace a smaller church in Hamil Road as the congregation was growing larger. I've been meaning to try this photo for a while. I noticed the statue of Jesus but it's fairly hidden away to the side and under a tree. I had an idea that if I took a photo of the church at night and illuminated the statue more than the natural light illuminated the church, it would create a nicely balanced scene. I think it mostly worked.
18mm, 25s, f/11, ISO 200
18mm, 25s, f/11, ISO 200
Monday 14th November 2011
Window graffiti in Hanley. I was just walking through the city centre, and thought 'oh that would make a good photo', so, as I often do, I just stopped in the middle of the street, got out my camera, and took a photo.
23mm, 1/15s, f/8, ISO 200
This was an editing error but I think it's fantastically brain melding. I've done it before but wasn't sure how, not I understand how I did it (although it still doesn't make total sense!) and also it had the lucky feature of being centred around an un-moving door.
23mm, 1/15s, f/8, ISO 200
This was an editing error but I think it's fantastically brain melding. I've done it before but wasn't sure how, not I understand how I did it (although it still doesn't make total sense!) and also it had the lucky feature of being centred around an un-moving door.
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Thursday 10th November 2011
I made it back up to the colliery tonight (see yesterday), but with a friend so that I wouldn't get scared off by any hissing noises (there was still much hissing, but I realised it was probably owls). This photo represents various things I've been working on, one being the colliery (see previous photos here and here), and one being a silhouette of a person (which I keep trying down a cave, and failing on). This is one shot, no HDR, just with a bit of 'dodging' in photoshop. I think it looks a little un-real, which I really like about it.
20mm, 30s, f/10, ISO 400
20mm, 30s, f/10, ISO 400
Wednesday 9th November 2011
Tonight I thought I'd try a photo I've been want to take for a while, and walk up to the colliery. Trouble is I got spooked by some hissing noises before I got to my photo spot, and retreated. Instead I went for a different photo that was long overdue - Burslem town hall. This is a very impressive building built between 1854 and 1857. It was superseded as town hall in 1911 by a different building behind it. The novelist Arnold Bennett often mentioned it and referred to the gold angel on top.
18mm, 15s, f/10, ISO 200
18mm, 15s, f/10, ISO 200
Tuesday 8th November 2011
The next estate up from mine. Stoke-on-Trent is fairly hilly so wherever you go you're not far from a 3-dimensional view. I like how the houses appear stacked on top of each other when you zoom in to something far away.
270mm, 4s, f/6.3, ISO 400
270mm, 4s, f/6.3, ISO 400
Friday, 4 November 2011
Thursday 3rd November 2011
I am told this is the old 'Home & Colonial' store in Stoke. I don't know what it is now, or why it is lit up at night, but it's quite a nice feature.
155mm, 8s, f/8, ISO 200
155mm, 8s, f/8, ISO 200
Monday 31st October 2011
I quite liked this abused street sign in the glow of the street lamps.
30mm, 30s, f/8, ISO 400
30mm, 30s, f/8, ISO 400
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Tuesday 25th October 2011
This is the town I work in, Tunstall, taken from the town I first lived in when I moved to Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem. This is a view that I theoretically see pretty often but while passing down this street your eye can see so much more and usually focusses on the road. When driving today I noticed how many of the nice buildings I could see in the distance so pulled over to see if my 270mm lens could get close enough in. It did, and the parts I wanted to capture pleasingly filled the whole frame, giving a different perspective to the one I usually see. Instead of trying to get round the street lights and the foreground houses, they actually made a more rounded image.
169mm, 1/100s, f/8, ISO 100
169mm, 1/100s, f/8, ISO 100
Friday, 21 October 2011
Wednesday 19th October 2011
This is Victoria Hall in Stoke, venue for various performances and concerts. It is VERY colourfully lit, with the lights on a scrolling cycle of various modes. This was the most garish and I was pleased I managed to capture it before it changed despite the 6 second exposure. This isn't really a hard photo to take, but I think it was worth capturing!
20mm, 6s, f/8, ISO 200
20mm, 6s, f/8, ISO 200
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Friday 14th October 2011
Zoot suits and beer festivals were the order of the day today.
92mm, 1/40s, f/5.6, ISO 400
92mm, 1/40s, f/5.6, ISO 400
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