Tripping about Scotland 1

A few images from my recent trip around the North West Coast of Scotland,

more images to follow soon

 Black Rock Cottage in Glen Coe

 Near Glenfinian

 

 The sun sets over Skye from near Mallaig

 Mallaig Harbour

 Leaving Mallaig

 Skye in the distance

 "Misty Isle Hotel" Skye ... I'm sure there's a room for the night

 Dunvegan Bay, Skye

More Dunvegan Bay, taken 5mtrs from our spot

Willowman Part 2

A few more images from Willowman June 12, link to Part 1 here

Clicking on the name below the image will take you to more images

There's also a revue of The Willowman Festival here

 The New York all Stars

Merry Hell

3 Foot Ninja

3 Daft Monkeys

B>E>A>K

Willowman June 2012 (Page 1)

I have just had the great pleasure of taking photo's at one of the best little festivals in the UK

So here are a few images of some of the acts... click on the artists name to see more on my facebook page

I will be adding another post with more images soon

Hugh Cornwall

Kill it Kid

Vintage Trouble

 Neville Staple

 Dave Keyes

The Olympic Torch

The Olympic Torch came our way today, its not often that the torch relay stops at the end of your street!

More images here

Tongue out in Billingham

Central Avenue Billingham

Waiting for the torch at the end of our street

Its lit ...

Off we go ...........

The Old Cemetery

At a bit of a loose end I drove over to Hartlepool to the Old Cemetery on the headland.

I wandered about with my camera using the popup flash to fill in the foreground,

maybe's a bit to much but I rather like the effect then Lightroom did the rest

Smoking ...

A while ago I experimented with smoke images, they are quite easy to set up

are are great fun.

I use a couple of joss sticks to create the smoke against a black background, lighting was using

a flash gun on a stand connected to the camera via a cable, several shots were taken to get the correct

exposure.

In Photoshop the image was inverted and then using the "Curves" options the colours changed

Stockton Calling 2012

I had a super day recently photographing loads of musicians in 

Stockton on Tees at various venues, here's a few images,

and if you click on the name below this will take you to more images of that act

 The Pigeon Detectives

 King Charles

Sarah Procter

Folks

Randy and the Handstand Band

The Purnells

Goy Boy McIlroy

The Castells

Collectors Club

The Janice Graham Band