clouds

Shot for the Day (16 September 2016)

| Zapfly

shot_of_the_day_11sep

Still in the Canadian Rockies, I tried to shoot the famous Moraine Lake, situated close to Lake Louise, a few times but to no avail.  In the end, it took me three attempts to capture this dawn scene.  First time, I wondered into the forest jutting out into the lake on the right.  I was spooked by a bear and decided a shot was not worth a mauling.  The second attempt was marred by terrible weather.  Third time lucky.  The light lasted about 5 minutes before clouding over.

The solitude of the morning was somewhat dispensed with when I was interviewed by a Japanese film crew, who turned up too late to capture the dawn and wanted to use my photographs.

shot_of_the_day_16sep-4

I was staying in a small motel in Banff and had scouted this location out the previous day.  The light was falling to my right on the lakeside but I loved the dawn vanilla skies above the mountain on the other side of the lake.

Shot for the Day (11 September 2016)

| Zapfly

shot_of_the_day_11sep-2

A few years ago, I was in the Canadian Rockies, travelling around Banff and Jasper National Parks.  The shot for today was taken from an observation platform above Peyto Lake. It was not a great time of day to be shooting as it was close to midday but this really made the turquoise colour of the lake stand out all the more against the lush green of the surround forest, greyness of the mountain face and deep blue of the sky.

shot_of_the_day_11sep-4

This was taken a few miles away, along the river bank above a raging torrent below.  You can make out a young girl relaxing by the river, wearing red, to give you a size perspective of the scene.

Shot for the Day (09 September 2016)

| Zapfly

shot_of_the_day_09sep

A shot from the archives.  This one was taken in Iceland when I cycle around the island.  I had made my way around the peninsula and had to back track through the mountains.  Ahead of me, the clouds loomed ominously above the range I had to cycle through.  Needless to say, I was soaked in the mother of all storms.

Just over a week later, I was on the other side of the island.  The omnipresent clouds parted momentarily as I passed an abandoned house.  Soon afterwards, the rain fell and the clouds closed in.  If you can overlook the bad weather (these were taken in the height of the Icelandic summer) and the relentless winds, cycling around this rock in the middle of the Atlantic was a fantastic expedition.

shot_of_the_day_09sep-2

Shot for the Day (04 September 2016)

| Zapfly

Gothenburg river in Sweden

Last week I was in Gothenburg for business as is usual in my role.  After work, I headed over to the south side of the river to grab some end of day shots.  This one is of the north side, called Lindholmen, where our new office is located.

This version really does not do the shot justice as this is the result of stitching 5 images together and cropping some of the scene to either side of the image.

Shot for the Day (11 August 2016)

| Zapfly

Shot_of_the_day_11AUG-12

A few years ago, I was in the US to shoot a TV commercial for VW.  I took a couple of days out after 5 days of filming and wondered over to Death Valley.  I was incredibly lucky to be there as the weather turn from bone dry to stormy.  This is a short while before the heavens open and flooded many of the roads in the National Park.

Shot for the Day (06 August 2016)

| Zapfly

Shot_of_the_day_6AUG

This is Bentham beach in southern Devon.  I took this a few weeks ago when I was in the area.  This was taken about 30 minutes after the sun had dropped below the horizon.  I should probably remove the light sources on the island and cliff top to make the image a little cleaner.  The cloud and colour of the sky reminds me more of a tropical sunset than the UK.  Could be due to the hint of magenta in the heavens.  Well worth a visit if you can find it.

Shot for the Day (02 August 2016)

| Zapfly

Shot_of_the_day_02AUG1

A couple of other extra long exposure shots from last weekend.  This one was taken close to the Millennium Bridge.  As the river was low, I was able to walk down to the beach, to take a lower angle shot of the Thames and Shard. The sun had finally broken through the clod, albeit temporarily, to illuminate the scene and bath the Shard in light.

This next shot was of HMS Belfast, across the Thames, of the Walkie Talkie building with the Gherkin also visible.  As the ship was floating on the river, it tended to bob around, so I diminished the length of the exposure to compensate.  You can see this in comparison to the tub boats in the foreground, which are blurred.

Shot_of_the_day_02AUG2

Shot for the Day (25 October 2015)

| Zapfly

Finland 1

Some shots from a recent trip to Finland.  The weather was hovering around zero but the skies were generally blue and the ground frost intermittent.  Finland is a truly beautify place and I have been there several time.  I was only an hours drive north of Helsinki in Karkkila but it felt like a million miles away from London or Singapore.

Finland 2

For this trip, I took along my new Nokia 1020 to shoot on.  These are the low res files I downloaded and did not even colour balance or amend.  Very impressive result from a mobile phone.  Then again, it does have a 41 Megapixel camera…

Finland

The last shot was taken on the return journey from Finland, where I enjoyed a 2.5 hour long sunset as we flew south west from Helsinki to London.  This image reminds me of how people often envisage the entrance to heaven.