Night Light Fun

I went out yesterday evening to do some night photography with Jez from jezwhitworth.co.uk. We had planned to do some night sky / lunar photography but as usual the British weather was a let down and it was over cast.

But, not ones to be beaten we still headed out with our kit to the Clarendon Palace Ruins just outside Salisbury.

Had a really enjoyable evening playing around with cameras, flashguns, torches and LED rings. We did most of the shots on Jez's camera so look forward to seeing how they turned out but here are a few that I did take.

This is me on the DIY LED ring and Jez light painting the flowers


Another shot with the DIY LED ring


A quick shot of the Cathedral captured from the lookout on the way back home


As usual, click on the images to enlarge

Light Installation

I went along to the last viewing of Bruce Munro's light installation at Salisbury Cathedral.

This installation, made from 16,000 recycled bottles featured in the Cathedral's Cloisters. Each water-tower of bottles changed colour to choral music - Very soothing :)

Not too bad considering they were all taken hand held.











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Spire View

For something a little different, here is a close up view of Salisbury Cathedral's 404 ft spire using the telephoto lens



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Dark Religion

Came across a couple of night shots of Salisbury Cathedral on my computer.

They were taken around the same time as the Comic Relief Cathedral shots.

Cathedral Light Trails

Following on my obsession with light thought I would post another light trail picture.

Took this one a few months back but stumbled across it this evening whilst looking for something else.

Architects of Air

Last week I stopped off in Salisbury Cathedral close for a spot of lunch and to read the paper. What I found was a large inflatable in front of the Cathedral.

On further investigation I found that it is called Architects of Air and is a visual arts exhibition which is part of the Salisbury International Arts Festival.

According to their website...."Enter and be amazed...Drop in at any time and immerse yourself in an environment of saturated and subtle hues through labyrinthine tunnels and cavernous domes." At the time I just thought it was an elaborate inflatable kids playground!

Comic Relief Cathedral

With the tallest spire in Britian Salisbury Cathedral is taking part in Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day by turning its 404ft soaring spire red each night from Monday 9 March through to Red Nose Day on Friday 13 March. It hopes that everyone who sees the ‘red nosed’ Cathedral will be reminded of the comic relief message and encouraged to do something special to raise money for the charity. Read more here

Hope that everyone is doing their bit for charity today. I'm currently stuffed full of comic relief cakes :)

These shots of the Cathedral were taken yesterday evening...

Winter Wonderland

One day After returning from one snow covered winter wonderland in France it promptly started snowing here in the South of England. We have seen a fair bit of snow in the past week and the associated chaos that happens when we encounter any weather conditions which are outside of usual weather patterns. Roads not being adequately cleared / gritted leading to various routes being closed and thousands of schools across the UK were closed for a day or even most of the week.

The weather seems to have changed in to rain now so look out for flooding!!

Here are a few pictures I look after half a day of snow in and around the Cathedral Close.

Competition Photos Finally Submitted

As mentioned Previously the local rag has been running a photography competition.

I had great ideas about going out and taking lots of shots of various sites around the city but all of a sudden the closing date has crept up and I've not had much time to take any more snaps.

So here are the final 3 that I decided to submit.






It's a shame that they're all of the same subject matter but in my opinion they're not too bad. I especially like the infrared one but not sure that they'll accept photos taken with filters. We'll see.

Top prize is a Panasonic Lumix TZ3 with seven runners up receiving a copy of photographer Steve Day's book, Wiltshire Moods