A Trio of Firsts
Finding new photography locations these days is not a difficult task. There’s any number of websites and phone apps catering to this task, but what I find infinitely more difficult…
Black and White Experimentation
I recently went on a photo trip with two friends to Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh. Whilst there I decided I’d take some landscape photos with the express intention of making them black and white.
I don’t know why I’d never considered doing B&W landscapes before, but I do like the results I got here.
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Sunday Sunrise
I’ll try and keep words to a minimum here.
Some things get me out of bed (work) and some things I get out of bed for (photography).
London Photo Walk
The Highgate visit was only part of the photo walk that took place on Saturday. After first meeting up with two others, the group of four went for a walk…
Guardians of the Highgate Dead
I spent last weekend in London visiting some friends and taking photographs. One of the places we visited as a group was Highgate Cemetery after it being recommended to me by my friend Paola - she said I'd enjoy it there, she wasn't wrong.
Sci-Fi Observations from Egypt
I like science fiction. I'm proud of the knowledge I have regarding TV and film sci-fi (I don't get a lot of time to read SF). I make no secret of the fact I like sci-fi (it is, after all, what the SF stands for in the title of this site).
Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse, 2010
Early this morning the Earth passed between the Moon and the sun, causing a full lunar eclipse. Today also marks the winter solstice : the shortest day of the year.
This eclipse was the first to fall on the winter solstice since 1638. The next solstice eclipse won’t be until 2094.
There was a perfectly clear sky over Belfast so I had an unobstructed view of the full event from the fourth floor window of my work building. As I walked in to work in temperatures of around -13ºC I didn’t miss the decision not to bring my tripod with me – I already had a rucksack and a camera bag with me.
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Riding High above the West Bank of the Nile River
The idea was to get an early morning balloon so that we would already be airborne when the sunrise broke the horizon, but this wasn’t to be, instead the sun had been up for about 30 minutes by the time we arrived at the take-off site.
A Felucca Ride on the Nile River
Taking a Felucca down the Nile is something you must do when visiting Egypt. Feluccas are sail boats that have been used on the Nile since antiquity.
The Cult Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, East Bank at Luxor
Karnak remains the largest surviving religious complex in the world and is spread over an area of around 247 acres.
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