March 31st 2012 - Spring Blossom

31st March 2012

It's beginning to look a lot like spring out there.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 30th 2012 - The Gherkin

30th March 2012

30 St. Mary Axe, also know as The Gherkin due to its unique shape was opened in 2004, and designed by architect Norman Foster.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 29th 2012 - So Much Editing To Do

29th March 2012

Being on call this week has helped me get through a lot of photos from my holiday.

Still a lot more to go however!

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 3 (-2, 0, + 2)

March 28th 2012 - St. James's Palace Sentry

28th March 2012

For week 13 of the SEUK Photography on the Net 52 project, the topic was uniform. After work I popped down to St. James's Place to grab a shot of a guardsman (in this case of the Coldstream guards) on sentry duty, alas still in winter overcoat, and not the red as worn in the summer months.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 27th 2012 - Fall Of The Samurai

27th March 2012

I'm a bit of a mad total war fan, and this has been consuming a fair amount of my free time since it came out last Friday!

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 26th 2012 - London Bridge Station

26th March 2012

London Bridge station is the oldest railway terminus in London and among the oldest stations in the world, opening in December 1836.

Today it's London's 4th busiest station.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 10 (-5 to + 4)

March 25th 2012 - Santa Pod

25th March 2012

Another day filming CrewsVs (due to begin airing on Showcase 2 and over the Internet on April 1st at 9pm), this time at Santa Pod. Suspending my 7D off a 2 metre jib 20 feet in the air was a nervous experience!

Camera: Canon EOS 40D

Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II USM

Exposures: 5 (-2 to + 2)

March 24th 2012 - Old Father Time

24th March 2012

Spent most of the day working so took the chance to grab a shot of the clock tower at the Palaces of Westminster (AKA Big Ben) lit up shortly after sunset.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 10 (-5 to + 4)

March 23rd 2012 - Girl With A Dolphin

23rd March 2012

The David Wynne sculpture, "Girl With a Dolphin" sits overlooking Tower Bridge at St. Katherine Dock.  David Wynne was born in London, and seems to have had no formal art training, and this is one of several famous pieces that are spread across London, this one made in 1973.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 22nd 2012 - Cooking Up A Storm

22nd March 2012

Cooked up some home made shepherd pie last night, was totally nomarific!


Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 10 (-5 to + 4)

March 21st 2012 - Car Shoot

21st March 2012

It was 80 days so time for another shot of my car, being used as a stand in to set speedlite levels for a South East Customs Photoshoot


Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 20th 2012 - Sidelit St. Paul's

20th March 2012

London can look so beautiful side lit by sunset sometimes.


Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 19th 2012 - Sunset Behind The Shard

19th March 2012

The Shard is almost there now.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 18th 2012 - Start Of The New Season

18th March 2012

What better way to see in the new F1 season.


It's okay to drink before breakfast right?

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 I

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 17th 2012 - Waterloo Bridge Book Market

 

17th March 2012

What better place for a book market than under Waterloo bridge?

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 16th 2012 - The Good Food Market

16th March 2012

Every Friday afternoon, the Good Food Market comes to St Katherine Dock. There's a good variety of international treats to tempt and almost every cuisine is represented from Morrocoan, Greek and Portugese, to Iranian, Jamaican, Spanish, French and Chinese.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Exposures: 3 (-2, 0 +2)

March 15th 2012 - Mind The Gap

15th March 2012

Quick snap on my way home from work.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Exposures: 3 (-2, 0 +2)

March 14th 2012 - Book Launch

14th March 2012

Tonight I went to a book launch for my friend Ellen's new book on roller derby fashion, of which I have a few photos in!

Buy it from Amazon here, it's very good!

Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Exposures: 3 (-2, 0 +2)

March 13th 2012 - HMS Belfast

13th March 2012

The HMS Belfast is a museum ship permanently moored between London Bridge and Tower Bridge.

During World War 2 it was one of the Royal Navy ships used to battle the Scharnhorst.

After an accident with the gangway last year the museum is currently closed, and is expected to reopen in the coming months.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 12th 2012 - Under The Bridge

12th March 2012

Was still feeling a bit jet lagged, so quickly snapped these lights in the pavement under London Bridge.

 
Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 11th 2012 - I Hate Jet Lag

11th March 2012

Jet Lag really sucks! :(

Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Exposures: 3 (-2, 0 +2)

March 10th 2012 - Swift

10th March 2012

Meet Warren and Kat's adorable Cat/Dog Swift. Such a cutie.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Exposures: 3 (-2, 0 +2)

March 9th 2012 - The Champagne Pool

9th March 2012

The Champagne Pool at the Wai-O-Tapu geothermal park is a hot spring. The name Champagne Pool is derived from the abundance of carbon dioxide in the spring, making it bubble like a glass of champagne. 


65 metres in diameter, and 62 metres deep, it's the largest spring in the area, and has a surface temperature of 72 degrees Celsius. The orange colouring round the edge is due to the depositing of arsenic. 

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 8th 2012 - Auckland Zoo

8th March 2012

Had a visit to Auckland zoo today with the plan of HDRing a Kiwi. This proved considerably more difficult that i originally thought! So I photoed the new native New Zealand enclosure instead.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 7th 2012 - Sheep, Sheep, Everywhere!

7th March 2012

With an estimated 40 million sheep (10 per person living there), they aren't hard to find. These ones live on Kat's parent's farm and I was even lucky to feed them. They are so domesticated they might as well be like pets!

Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Exposures: 3 (-2, 0 +2)

March 6th 2012 - Russell Fig Tree

6th March 2012

Russell was the first permanent European settlement in New Zealand, and once upon a time was known as the "Hell Hole of the Pacific" due to the many brothels and lawlessness in the whaling port. However today it is a beautiful historic town (population 816!!!) and one of New Zealand's most sort after postcodes.


This fig tree was planted in 1870 by the then customs officer. the building next door then became the local police station and is now the local police officers home.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 9 (-5 to + 3)

March 5th 2012 - Sunrise Over Matauri Bay

5th March 2012

Matauri Bay is famed for it's beautiful white sand and totally crystal clear water, In the shot the sun rises over the Cavilli islands, the site is also home to the scuttled wreck of Rainbow Warrior I, the Greenpeace vessel that was covertly bombed by the French secret service in 1985 while moored in Auckland harbour.


Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 4th 2012 - Te Paki Sands

4th March 2012

The Te Paki sand dunes near Cape Reinga are a sight to behold, 5 km deep and over a hundred metres high, this is possibly the most work I've ever had to do to get one photo, since the sand was at a 50 odd degree slope, 15kgs of camera gear didn't make this a fun climb at all, the view at the top was well worth the climb. Going down was a lot quicker, and bouncing down like Neil Armstrong on the moon was amazing fun!

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 10 (-5 to + 4)

March 3rd 2012 - Cape Reinga

3rd March 2012

Cape Reinga is the north western most tip of New Zealand, and as far north as is possible to go due to parts of the country being restricted for scientific protection. The name of the cape comes from the Maori word 'Reinga', meaning the 'Underworld' (due to the fact that in Maori mythology  the spirits of the dead travel to Cape Reinga on their journey to the afterlife to leap off the headland and climb the roots of the 800 year old tree and descend to the underworld to return to their traditional homeland of Hawaiki). The headland features a prominent lighthouse (now solar powered) and a signpost with distance to locations across the globe (at 18,029 km I'm a long way from home!).

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)

March 2nd 2012 - Whangarei Falls

2nd March 2012

One of New Zealand's most photographed waterfalls is Whangarei Falls, where the Hatea River drops 26 metres. The falls were originally known as Otuihau, and have been a picnic spot since at least the 1890s.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 10 (-5 to + 4)

March 1st 2012 - Whale Bay

1st March 2012

Day 1 of the awesome New Zealand road trip, and a stop off at Whale Bay, and this shot of Katrina's old Ricoh.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Exposures: 11 (-5 to + 5)