I’ve just published my Space Lands book on the Blurb website in an 8×10 format. I hope to publish a larger luxury version in 11×14 format in the near future. Some of the pictures featured here are in there, but not all, there are about 40 pictures in total in the book. I chose to [...]
In the past I haven’t given a fig for small strobe units. I found them far too fiddly to use, found the automatic features in particular gave poor exposures. Then I had a demo of how the new Canon 5DII could be used with the newer Canon flash gun, the 580 EX II and it [...]
Here are a couple of shots of the studio space I’m going to be renting soon. It looks a little unpromising at the moment, but I guess emptied of old washing machines and assorted tools it will look rather better. I think I want to keep all the rough walls and finishes though, everything gets [...]
Peter Yang made a picture of Barack Obama that stands out amongst the field of competent but unrevealing images of the new president (I’m referring to the picture to the right, with Obama pointing straight at the camera). The image looks as though it has been shot off the cuff, a simple idea (whether from [...]
This shot was inspired by that ‘slit scan’ sequence in 2001 a space odyssey. Returned from the trip and its been the usual enjoyable trawl through 146 gigabytes of raw files with the predictable ups and downs. Tweet This Post Bookmark to Hide Sites $$(‘div.d68′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
This is the building of the rotary rocket company. The rotary rocket was a contender for the x-prize which was intended to reach space with a single stage rocket engine. Its return to earth would be enabled by unfolding rotor blades which would act like a parachute bringing it’s crew and passengers safely back to [...]
Another from Mojave showing a view through the picture window. Just like any other general aviation cafe except you can see a rocket through the window, and the first civilian spaceship took off and landed from the runway behind me. Tweet This Post Bookmark to Hide Sites $$(‘div.d62′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Apropos of nothing, this faded sign has lost all but a tiny piece of the glass neon tubing. Its abandoned in a field, approximately 20 meters from a freeway that I guess was built a while after the cafe disappeared.
Landed LAX at 18:15, as usual a hard slog to keep awake on the first arrival drive, this time just 100 miles or so to Mojave. As ever the visual landscape is a feast in every direction.
Another image from the same ad shoot as for the Battersea image. This close crop won’t be used in the ad, but its one of my favorite from the shoot. Make sure your browser window is wide enough to show the whole of the image. At one point I had St. Pauls, The London Eye [...]
