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