Keeping it simple and doing a high contrast black and white conversion to keep the water dark, and clipping the shadows slightly to get that black, oil like look.
Reflections
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Waves, Beach
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More Office Buildings
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The glass facade of one building acted as a mirror for another building nearby. I had to tilt the camera back to get the reflection of the other building into the frame. I like the way the keystone correction emphasizes the slightly aggressive posture of the mirrored building. Perhaps I should edit out the fluorescent light on the right. It breaks the pattern, but it somehow feels a bit distracting.
Sunrise Embleton Bay
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Northumberland, Embleton Bay, looking south towards Dunstanburgh Castle
Office Buildings revisited
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This is a location I have visited a few times, and here is a slightly new take on a scene a shot last autumn. This time I decided to move a little to the left and make the shot wider.
Concrete Glass and Steel
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The contrast between the straws and the surrounding buildings caught my attention. In the jungle of glass, steel and concrete these straws just seemed out of place, yet made an image where I though none was to be found.
Old and new Defenses
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The concrete construction in the foreground is a WWII pillbox, or small bunker. It is built to blend in with its surroundings, whereas the castle in the background is quite the opposite. Built on a hilltop clearly visible from both sea and land, sending a clear message to friends and foes.
WWII pillbox bunker north of Dunstanburgh Castle
"Blood, Sweat, Toil and Tears"
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This image is from harbor at the isle of Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, and the castle in the background is Lindisfarne Castle.
The two upturned boats in the foreground have been cut in half and made into sheds - I guess to store tools, nets, ropes; tools of the trade for the fisherman who owns it. Life as a fisherman is hard with a lot of toil, sweat and blood, and even tears for those lost at sea - sons, brothers, husbands and fathers.
To me the two upturned boats represent a much more interesting bit of history than the castle in the background. Their history started just a few generations ago - it could have been my grandfathers boat, my fathers shed.
Lindisfarne harbor, Northumberland
Spring
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After a cold, windy few weeks it feels good to have enjoyed a mild, sunny day again.
"Lump of Trees"
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Northumberland is an open, rural stretch of english countryside and I developed a thing for these isolated groups of trees dotted around the landscape. So it became a kind of quest to find a nice group of trees without too much clutter next to it.
Northumberland, near Embleton
Northumberland, Bamburgh Castle
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This shot from my trip to Northumberland is from the beach just north of Bamburgh Castle. I have tried to keep it simple, with the concrete blocks in the front pointing in the direction of the castle on the horizon, and leaving a bit of breathing space on the left hand side of the frame. The concrete cubes in the foreground are anti-tank defenses from the early stages of 2nd world war when German troops seemed unstoppable and the threat of an invasion of the British Isles was overhanging.
Bamburgh Castle and 2nd world war tank defences
Northumberland, Lighthouse
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After starting at the beach of Embleton Bay for a sunrise shoot, we went north to Bamburgh Castle. We started at this lighthouse and made our way back towards the castle. I have used focus stacking to make sure I would have the lighthouse and the rock in the foreground in focus in the final image.
Lighthouse north of Bamburgh Castle