A new issue of 28mm has become available after a few months of absence, this issue contains one gallery entitled ARKHEE by Eolo Perfido that is absolutely stunning.
28mm showcases work by amateur and professional photographers and comes out when enough material has been submitted.
A few weekends ago I was bored and it was too hot to go outside so I started playing with some of my nearly 4 000 photos that I have taken over the last 4 years.
I wanted a good selection of high contrast black and white photos and finally settled on 72 of my favorites. Eventually I had to get that down to 20 and today I have a collection of what I consider my 20 best photos for the black and white medium. I have a number of photos that contains people in various activities and specifically did not include them here, watch out for them later on.
The photos were all taken with either a Olympus C3000z, Nikon 5700, Canon IXUS v3 or my latest camera a Canon IXUS 400. Be sure to have your display to at least 1024 x 768 for optimal viewing. Any comments would be much appreciated.
The photos are here, all the work is licenced under the Creative Commons license that allows you to copy and display as long as you give me credit and do not modify it in any form or use it commercially. I have printed some of these in larger formats and they do come out quite nicely, if anyone would like prints I will be glad to oblige.
I came across a site that has some very good free photoshop actions, the black and white conversion action is particularly great for giving full control of the final result to the user.
Bob Geldof and Orange are collaborating to Brighten up London for the Christmas season, I have seen a few of the buildings but nothing quite compares to Buckingham Palace lit up, it is absolutely amazing.
After not having much time recently for photography I decided to go out today and take some shots since it was a perfectly clear day and wonderfully cold. I packed all my stuff, even remembering a spare battery, and headed down to Blackheath for some lunch, I looked around for a place to go since the only place there is terrible with service (but has great food) and in the end I decided on them after all.
After lunch I forgot my tripod in the shop, I should have given up here already. I only realized this after I was like 10 minutes away and had to turn back, after another 10 or 15 minutes I made it to Greenwich Park and saw something I wanted to take a photo off, turned the camera on to the “no data card” error message, I forgot my CF card in my computer! So I head back home to fetch it, another 30 minutes each way down the drain.
As it is winter and the sun pretty much just falls from the sky now and so I missed the best time of the day and could not take the kind of photos I had in mind anymore. I walked around a bit and found some other stuff to take photos of but I then realized that my remote control for my camera had a flat battery and was of no use to me, the end result is a whole pile of blurred photos due to tripod shake from having to press the shutter by hand ๐
For all of this I only had one semi decent shot – Greenwich University with Canary Wharf in the background for a nice contrasting scene – click on the thumbnail below to see the 800 x 600 version.
It is amasing how in a large city you learn to completely block out the world sometimes, you are never alone and people tend to have an amasing ability to just ignore others completely, you see this especially on the Tube where people just completely turn off.
