The Royal Arcade

The Royal Arcade is a luxury shopping arcade off Old Bond Street. It's closed on both ends by gates in the evening. I was on my way to dinner and spotted this shot though no tripod so handheld at 1/25s and pushed it to ISO 400.

Berber and camel, Erg Chebbi, Sahara Desert

This was taken in the Moroccan Sahara, in Erg Chebbi, the morning after the Camel Shadows photo. I got up at dawn, around 0600, and the desert was pretty cold. My aim was to climb up this massive dune near our camp but after getting up about three quareters of the way up it was too steep and I kept slipping down. The dawn was OK (clouds came in of course) but before the light got too intense I saw this man and camel walking in the distance to the south, an excellent reference to the scale of the dunes.

St Martin in the Fields Church

Quiet morning in St Martin in the Fields church, off Trafalgar Square. The church has been undergoing restoration and a new contemporary window was put in the shape of a distorted cross. The reflection in the bottom of the photo off the top of a grand piano helps balance the frame.

Portobello Road

Portobello Road sign in Notting Hill, I was going round looking to take some stock images but this was the best as it has an abstract feel from the two saturated, contrated colours. The street sign was near the boundary of two houses, hence the change in colour.

Chilean Flamingos

Moving on to Patagonia, these Chilean flamingos were taken in Perito Moreno national park, which is a park in the middle of nowhere in Southern Argentina, and is not the same park that holds the Perito Moreno glacier. PN Perito Moreno is off Ruta 40, the longest road in Argentina, and in some areas unpaved. These flamingos were in a lake next to Lago Belgrano and then decided to take off across me. Taken at 300 mm 1/320s, f9.0, managed to get one decent frame only.

The Blue Mosque

Moving to Europe/Asia, the Blue Mosque taken from a second floor window in the Hagia Sofia. The issue I had taking this photo was that the window was quite high up and i had to stand on tip toe to avoid converging lines and about three feet away to get the window frame. Unfortunately, other tourists would see what you were looking at and place their cameras on the windowsill to take a photo, invariably then going into a lengthy conversation before moving away, and then another person comes and blocks your view. It took me about ten minutes of waiting for a decent gap for this one...

Sahara Desert

A different desert: taken on a camel in Erg Chebbi, Morocco. Erg Chebbi is in East Morocco and is the main example of large dunes in the Saharan Morocco. Camel Shadows taken at sunset, handheld on a walking camel 1/100 s f/16.

Starting Image

Recently uploaded to Photoshelter. Photo of the Neumayer Channel, Antarctic Peninsula at sunset, take about 2300 local time, sunset was 2350 that night. The ship was moving slowly creating little distburance in the water.