Port of Culture

I went to The Albert Dock yesterday, to see Pete Carr's exhibition of photographs - Port of Culture.

If you follow his Photoblog "Vanilla Days" you'll know his work. He's had photo's published in magazines and newspapers.

He is one of the few photographers who use HDR (High Dynamic Range.) That's the method where you combine 3 or more images, all exposed for different areas of the final photo. Basically you use all the correctly exposed bits of each photo, to make the final photo which contains amazing detail in every area. Highlights, Midtones and shadows all contain amazing detail.
HDR images have an . . .erm . . . other worldly look about them. You'll know what I mean when you look at them.

Visit his websites:- petecarr.net - Port of Culture - Vanilla Days

Photo Page added

I added a Photos Page to the site today. I'll add more pages to the site over the next few weeks, months, years. Keep looking.

It's Ma Birthday! It's Ma Birthday! It's Ma Birthday!

Yep It's Ma Birthday!!!! Here's a photo I took yesterday. Dunno wot that's gotta do with my birthday though?

Eeeeeeekkkk!!!!!!

I've just realised. . . . . .

I'm 45 in 22 minutes. . . . FORTY FIVE!!!!! Looks like it's time for the wig to come out!

Albert Dock

I decided to go down to The Albert Dock today, and take some photo's.
There have been some spectacular sunsets over the past week, so I decided I should make the most of the sunny weather and test out my new lens, aswell.
Typically, I left it a bit late and arrived , just as the sun was dropping below the horizon as I sat in a traffic jam on The Strand.
Still, i got a few good shots. It was bloody freezing but I took a flask of coffee and that help keep the cold out when I went back to the van to get my tripod when it got to dark to shoot hand-held.

Happy 18th Lloyd

Happy 18th Birthday Lloyd!

Eeek! how fast does life travel by??? Was 1990 really 18 years ago???

Mike Cookson's Exhibition

Today I visited the Wensley Gallery, in Ramsbottom, where my friend Mike is holding his first exhibition of paintings.

Mike's paintings remind me of Kandinsky and Picasso and are far more interesting and contrived than the splashes I produce.
His work will be on display until the 6th of March.
Click on the photo above to visit the Wensley Gallery website.
I'll add a slideshow of photo's I took at his preview very soon.