River Pageant – finale video and Final Day flypast phots

Today’s photo:Pont Alexandre III. A long exposure shot of the Seine at the Pont Alexandre III, a wonderfully ornate bridge over the Seine by the Grand Palais in Paris. I liked the way that the low evening sun lit up the gilded parts of the bridge and the statue on the far side. Taken with…

Some photographs by way of a change of subject from technology.  These shots are of the gorgeous English Dales countryside on a trip to Aysgarth Falls, during one of the wettest and stormiest periods in recent memory, so everything was green and wet (except Norman).  Very English.     As is our wont we spent…

A few final seascape shots from Cape Town using the ability of the RX-100 to capture long exposure times, and hence render the sea in interesting ways.     A bit of technical jiggery is associated with these shots, so you can skip over the next section to the end if you only want to…

Back in the warm south thankfully.  Here are a few photographs of the area immediately around our place in the Southern part of the Cape peninsula.         It’s late summer here, a lovely time when the winds ease, and the days are long and languid.  This year I only brought the little…

 Click to show full size & back button to return to this page Happy New Year! Here’s another in the Salt River series.  These two gents I think were waiting for a ride – which was going to come down a street along which the sun was nearly horizontal and in their faces.  I liked…

Some more London street shots exploring different areas of style – this time looking at the geometric form of the scene.     The weekend of my birthday this summer was pretty busy.  Crazily, the BBC Proms had scheduled three Wagner operas in a row between  Friday and Sunday (and I had signed up for…