[ d u n g c a r t d o t c o m ]A place for the stuff that leaks out of my head

Surface Tension from duncmc via flickr.

We got up early on Sunday and briefly escaped the cosseted convenience of Center Parcs. Twenty minutes down the A66 and we hit Ullswater. With the weather as it was we had low expectations, and I was fully prepared to be uninspired by the dull, flat, winter light. As it happens things turned out better than I had hoped.

Choir Of Angels from duncmc via flickr.

The Angel Choir in Lincoln Cathedral (which at one time was the tallest building in the world).

The cathedral is a great building. I took lots of pictures but wasn’t really happy with any of them. This one has grown on me since one of my Flickr contacts commented that this ranks with my best. The interior was technically very challenging – under expose the surfaces or over expose the windows. Ideally it needs double exposures or some decent off camera lighting. Either way more thought, time and kit required to make a really decent job of it.

Clouding The Issue from duncmc via flickr.

The cooling towers of the mighty Drax power station populate the skies of East Yorkshire with their cloudy emissions.

Convergence from duncmc via flickr.

Don’t you just love it when everything comes together?

Last post of 2007. May you have a very fine and fortunate 2008.

Morning Is Broken… from duncmc via flickr.

…but my at least my camera still works.

Merry Christmas!

Losing The Light from duncmc via flickr.

An archive shot of the Humber Bridge from February this year. Again the high tide and stillness of the water made great conditions for photography. I have often been accused of adding the vertical light reflections artificially, but other than a white balance adjustment to remover the orange cast from the street lamps, and tweaking the contrast and saturation, this is as it came out of the camera.

It’s Been Forever Since from duncmc via flickr.

This one was taken in January this year – I stopped on the way to work one morning, arrested by the spectacular pink light cast onto the clouds from the rising sun. When I got down to the river I was thrilled to see the state of the water. The tide was high and the surface of the river was totally calm – my favourite conditions.

Light And Shadow from duncmc via flickr.

Another from the archives. This was taken in February this year and is another from my Humberscapes series. A night shot of the Humber Bridge, stretching out across the river looking south towards Lincolnshire. The shadows cast onto the water and the foreshore from the street lights on the bridge made for an interesting composition.

In A Roundabout Way from duncmc via flickr.

There isn’t much happening in the way of inspiration at the moment so here’s one from the archive. One of my most popular photos on flickr, depsite the mundane subject matter. This is the footbridge near the Daltry Street flyover on the Clive Sullivan Way in Hull. The blurring may not to be everyone’s taste but it was required to give more focus to the subject.

Chim Chim Cher-ee! from duncmc via flickr.

I took a short walk up from St Andrew’s Quay towards the old go-kart track. I thought it would be a challenge to stick with the 135mm prime, but nothing really inspired me. This was taken looking south across the river. Mostly processed using Photomatix. With a long lens on the camera the long shots are just too obvious – more effort required to see things differently.