Photography

Nightmare with chair

Wet day so photos indoors. You don’t get much more indoors than a box garage several floors underground.

Oxford rowing squad at Hammersmith Reach

Oxford rowing squad at Hammersmith Reach

Sunday rowday on the Thames between Putney and Hammersmith. A squad of two rowing eights, the oarsmen wearing Oxford University kit. I prefer light blue but they're rowing in style and making good speed back to the boathouse on an ebbing tide.
Trying to represent in a photo that peculiar autumn pleasure of kicking through dry leaves. These leaves are from the London plane trees crowning the Thames embankment at Bishops Park since its opening in 1893.
And two cute vagabonds, grey squirrels looking cute and cadging for food.

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Rampion Wind Farm viewed from Brighton

Ghostly shapes of cranes constructing Rampion Wind Farm as viewed from Brighton. The pale silhouettes on the horizon of the Channel seem to represent visually the future, ie renewable energy production, compared to the stark shapes of the familiar, traditional, coal and gas burning power stations.
Rampion’s 116 turbines are located between 13 and 25 kilometres offshore. Total peak capacity is expected to be about 400 MW. As comparison, a coal fired power station with eight cooling towers produces more than five times this amount, 2116 MW, such as Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire, which we visited as part of my degree course.

Derwent Water - Keswick landings

Derwent Water - storm approaching

Two pictures of Derwent Water between this week’s storms. The level of the water is high enough to submerge the wooden piers and, despite the ray of sunshine, there’s another shower driving across the water from the “Jaws of Borrowdale”. These are images in natural colour, ie as the image comes out of the camera, but the colour is subtle.

rope on a deck in Brigton Marina

chain on a wooden deck in Brigton Marina

A group of photos exploring contrasting shapes, patterns and textures. The low angle sunlight highlights grain and textures in these objects that have subtle natural colour as part of the character of their surfaces. From today’s walk through Brighton Marina.

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