A Place With History.
What do you see here? A street scene? A deserted road? Maybe an area that looks some what ruin down?
To be honest it Is probably a mixture of all three. These two photographs are taken in an area of Aberdeen that once held the city's fish processing plants.
The large scale fish processing plants and factories are unfortunately now ling closed, destined for history, to only live on in people's memories. The area which to be honest was going downhill and not the nicest to walk through are now being slowly regenerated, the same process that happens in cities up and down the country as the industries change and develop over the years.
The first photograph looks alongside the bridge that carries the main railway line into Aberdeen. Most of the archways have now been sealed, creating premises for a wide array of small businesses. The other areas are also being demolished and upgraded with new office complexes at an astonishing rate. I'm sure that in a few years the whole area will not be recognisable, the history of an industry lost but to a few.
The second photograph is underneath one of the bridges that caries the rail line. A favourite of mine, it is so full of character, maybe not to everyone's taste.
Photograph title: The Arches
Subject: Deserted street scene
Date take: 26th March 2014
Camera Nikon D600
Exposure 18 secs
Aperture f/18
Focal Length 24 mm
Photograph title: Empty
Subject: roadway underneath a bridge.
Date take: 26th March 2014
Camera Nikon D600
Exposure 18 secs
Aperture f/13
Focal Length 23 mm
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Monday, 24 February 2014
Squawking Herring Gulls
Squawking Herring Gulls
At first glance, just a pair of seagulls. It's like saying just a dog, but to a dog lover you would be missing so much i.e. The breed, so important, as it can reflect greats things like its history, it's temperament. So these aren't seagulls, they are herring gulls!
Anyway enough about that, it's a bird, a gull, a seagull or a herring gull if you please.
The photograph could have been so normal, but there is something about it, once taken, that caught my eye, something about it that I really like. What is that thing? I'm not too sure, is it the darkened background? Is it the contrast with the predominantly white birds? Is it the light hitting the eyes, illuminating them? Is it the beaks both open? I'm not sure, maybe it is a mix of all of the above!
Taken on an overcast day, it was exposed so not to burn out the white feathers, naturally darkening the background so that the birds stand out.
Processing was not too over the top, just the basics, slight improvement to exposure, contrast and of course sharpening.
Photograph title: Squawking Herring Gulls
Subject: Wild Pheasant
Date take: 19th September 2008
Camera Nikon D600
Exposure 1/2500
Aperture f/5.0
Focal Length 200 mm
At first glance, just a pair of seagulls. It's like saying just a dog, but to a dog lover you would be missing so much i.e. The breed, so important, as it can reflect greats things like its history, it's temperament. So these aren't seagulls, they are herring gulls!
Anyway enough about that, it's a bird, a gull, a seagull or a herring gull if you please.
The photograph could have been so normal, but there is something about it, once taken, that caught my eye, something about it that I really like. What is that thing? I'm not too sure, is it the darkened background? Is it the contrast with the predominantly white birds? Is it the light hitting the eyes, illuminating them? Is it the beaks both open? I'm not sure, maybe it is a mix of all of the above!
Taken on an overcast day, it was exposed so not to burn out the white feathers, naturally darkening the background so that the birds stand out.
Processing was not too over the top, just the basics, slight improvement to exposure, contrast and of course sharpening.
Photograph title: Squawking Herring Gulls
Subject: Wild Pheasant
Date take: 19th September 2008
Camera Nikon D600
Exposure 1/2500
Aperture f/5.0
Focal Length 200 mm
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