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Day of Action

On Wednesday the 30th of November I took part in the National Day of Action and along with several other odd million or so Public Workers went on Strike.

These images are just a few I took on the protest march through Middlesbrough Town Centre while marching with my fellow strikers

More images are here

Nice day for a walk

It seems that our PM wasn't listening either

A set of "Bankers" eh! .... could have been worse

I should hope so!

Durham City

The Luminere Event in Durham City attracted thousands to see the City lit up with light, including a giant snowglobe and projections onto the 2,000 year old Cathedral.

There are more images here

November the 5th

My local town always put on a superb fireworks display for the 5gth of November, 2011 was no exception

For the photographers among you, these were shot on a Nikon D700 with the settings of ISO1250, aperture of f5.6 shutter speed of 1/5th sec with the camera focus set to manual and focused on infinity

Roaring Mouse

For the past few years I've been helping a local Drama Group produce a calender to help promote themselves. The majority of the group have a Learning Disability but are keen performers and this year the theme is old Black and White Hollywood films... here are a couple images for this year 2012... they are still work in progress but I hope you enjoy them

Birthday Fireworks

On the 16th of October 2011, the Teesside Transporter Bridge was 100 years old, a Grand Fireworks display celebrated the event

Happy Birthday Transporter

The Teesside Transporter bridge celebrates its 100th Birthday this October, as part of the celebrations there a light show to music on the bridge. I limped down there and took a few shots the other night

The 3 images above were taken at 1250 iso to speed up the shutter to allow me to capture the light beams while the one below was a slower ISO and no light beams!

With this shot below, I zoomed the lend from Telephoto to Wide angle during exposure, just messing about really

I'll load a few more after the fireworks tomorrow

Northumberland

The Ancient county of Northumberland is but a stones throw away, well about and hours drive to be exact, here's a couple of image from up there ...

 

 "The Magpie" ... there must be thousands of images of this boat on Holy Island

 The sun sets on Beadnal Harbour

 Another Magpie shot, different day, same boat!

 

You can buy copies of these images and others from the North East from here

Happy Birthday

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge was 10 years old the other week, as I work nearby and can see it from where I teach I thought I'd stick a few photos on here of it

The bridge open for the passing through of a ship

The Royal Navy passing under the lifted bridge 

 

The bridge at dusk

Whitby Wanderings ...

The other night along with my good friend Andy we set off to photograph the sunset over Whitby, we are lucky in that its only an hour or so's drive.

Well ... the sun came then went and stayed went! so we did a few low light shots

The famous Swing Bridge with The Dolphin Pub, which must be the only pub in the World to be hit by a bridge!

At the bottom of the 199 steps, yes the bottom!

Dracula's View, the beach to the left of the pier is where the boat ran ashore in a storm and a big black dog jumped onto the beach and ran up the 199 steps to the old Abbey, so Bram Stocker would have you believe!

You can buy a print, card or canvas of these images from here 

Shaping up for a Sunset

Its allways worth while as a photographer to keep an eye on the weather forecast and a look out on the sky as in the UK the weather can change very quickly

Last night I was watching the clouds clear and dashed off to the river mouth as I suspected a rather dramatic sunset, I wasn't far wrong!

What's left of the old jetty makes a fine point of interest in this image

Cant remember where I read it, but someone once said that as a photographer you should always be looking not only in front but behind you, well this shot is 180 degrees from the jetty shot. Its amazing the change in light from in front of you to behind you!

Bingley Music Live, Sunday

More images from Bingley Music Live, click on the name for more images

 Chase and Status

Eliza Doolittle

Wretch32

 The Sunshine Underground

Daley

 Stereo MC's

Bingley Music Live, Saturday

More from Bingley on Saturday
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 Maximo Park

 Feeder

Dionne Bromfeild 

White Denim 

 Jon Fratelli

Athelte

 Mystery Jets