Ducatos – better than a vacation

The fashion dummies just can’t make their minds up.  Shot in Salamanca, Madrid on my way to El Corte Ingles (the Spanish Harrods, and meaning “the English cut”) for lunch. This is the swish Madrid equivalent of Knightsbridge, or Mayfair, although nicer ( and at the moment, warmer).

The second installment of Myanmar photographs here.  These show a lot more of daily life on the lakes and channels of this very evocative region.     Inle is a huge inland lake in the north-east of the country.  It is surrounded by hills, and looks almost to have been an old caldera – I…

Today’s photo:Low light under the bridge. An early evening shot, with light coming in almost horizontally into the arches of London’s Blackfriar’s railway bridge, with the piers of the old bridge showing on the left. This was the first LE shot with my new D750, taken in February 2015. It was a 4 minute shot,…

” Today’s photo: A long exposure shot taken near Southend, UK, at Shoeburyness. This used to be a major military barrack and defensive area, and as a result there are a lot of mysterious and derelict structures out in the sea that make fertile ground for LE photographers. I liked the obelisk-like nature of this…

Click to enlarge Another Shot from Bo-Kaap. This is again untweaked – these are the colours straight from the camera. I broke my usual rule on not photographing people on mobile phones with this shot – because the colours worked, and the phone is not visible, indeed it could just be his finely turned calves…