The worlds biggest disco ball !

One of the sculptures on the prom is the mirrorball, i took this shot using a Cokin 7 point filter and stacked my warm up filter behind it.

It gives a some what different shot making it look more like a flower.....

Lets see what tomorrow brings ...as i will be out with my new Canon 1100D .........

A walk through the woods

I was out earlyish this morning to try out some new camera kit, the best testing gorund around here is the local woods there's plenty of interest and different lighting .so here's the results all taken with a nikon D3000...

A sunset and a view of North Pier

Here's another couple of shots for your viewing pleasure, this first one is a view of Fairhaven lake at sunset. Fairhaven is a nice place to watch wildlife with the mudflats and all it's wading birds as well as the lake with it's ducks and boats....

This next shot is a view along north pier during the summer months, i think it really worked well in Black and White

hope these shots are of some interest why not lat me know what you think..........

The Red Arrows

Here's a couple of the Red Arrows this season. they use my local airport quite a bit in the display season so i'm quite lucky to be able to get some of the close up shots i can get of them.

The team fly the BAE Systems Hawk T 1A trainer and have done since the 1979 display season.

so please sit back and enjoy these few shots of the world famous red arrows...

 Why not let me know what you think.....

The Shackelton

One area i am passonate about is aviation photography, i have been interested in all things that fly since an early age. I lived near an international airport and the factory that built the Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, so i had a lot to keep my weekends busy .

When i got into photography this was the area i enjoyed most, and spent many happy years photographing aircraft like the mighty Avro Shackelton. these were built and tested at the Avro factory at Woodford. When these aircraft retired from service in the late 80s i was lucky enough to see a 4 ship flypast of their woodford birthplace an unforgetable sight and the wonderful sound of the Rolls Royce Griffon engines driving the two sets of contrarotating props on each of the 4 engines.....

These next 2 shots are of Shackelton AEW 2 , these aircraft served as airbourne early warning platforms keeping our airspace safe from intruding  Tupolev TU 95 Bear bombers at the height of the cold war.

It is now enjoying it's twilight years in the Museum of science and industry in manchester.....

This view is from the tail section looking forward , to give you an idea of the length of this aircraft.

I hope you are enjoying these  pics so far....

Views from the south prom

Here's a couple of shots from my favourite part of the prom, there's lots to photograph at south shore be it the pleasure beach or the sculptures of modern art .
These sculptures lend theirselves so well to photography they make interesting subjects, by just changing position or the angle of the shot releals new and sometimes more interesting side to these stuctures. I also like to use Cokin filters to add a little something to the shots although i must admit black and white is my favourite medium to shoot in.........

So first up is a view looking noth including the huge mirrorball and one of the seating areas....

And this second one is a stucture named Desire, for this one i use my canon 18-55mm lens coupled with a cokin 2 stop filter and a warm up filter to get the colour tone ...one of my fav shots on a quirky angle....

I hope to bring you some more shots in a day or two.....

Welcome

Welcome to my photography blog, on here you'll find all my best work . Be it landscapes, Portraits ,wildlife or even Aviation it'll all be here....

So please sit back and enjoy.....


First up one of my favourite  shots from the sead defences on the beach at south shore......

And one of my classic aviation shots of the battle of britain flights DC 3 Dakota