Drilling for Oil // April 01, 2005
A change from the recent floral shots...
This is the Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre, an amazing building providing office and laboratory space for developing oil rigs. Its roof is made out of Teflon-coated glass-fiber membrane suspended from a steel superstructure - the same technology used for the Millenium Dome. To get an idea of the scale, check out the little guy sat in his office on the far left.
A technical aside...
Fractured // March 26, 2005
This reminds me of one of those sliding puzzles where you have to un-jumble a picture by moving the pieces. The reflection is of St Mary's church in Cambridge.
Ceiling Fan #2 // March 22, 2005
It's interesting how a good idea never goes out of fashion. Compare this ceiling from the porter's lodge of Corpus Christi college with this one.
For anyone that visits regularly, I'm sorry that I haven't been updating recently. I've been overwhelmed by work and haven't really had the energy to take pictures. Hopefully, things have settled down a bit now.
Converging Verticals // February 09, 2005
Another architectural shot - this time of the Old Schools in Cambridge. You know, one of these days I am going to post a black & white shot that actually has a sky - I promise :-)
King's College Entrance // February 08, 2005
This was taken just after yesterday's shot on my Sunday morning trip into Cambridge. Get the right light on this stonework and it is the most fantastic golden colour - get the wrong sort of light and you have to resort to gimmicky selective colour tricks to make an interesting picture :-)
Ceiling Fan // January 29, 2005
This is a ceiling detail from Bilbao airport - just another shot from the archives. I'm really getting fed up with the weather round here at the moment. I want to get out and take photos but it's been so dismal - grey and cold I can deal with, but wet really gets me down.
Kings Skyline // January 27, 2005
This is another silhouette shot - this time of King's College, Cambridge.
I've processed the image quite heavily, which is something I don't normally like doing, but I didn't really have anything else to put up. I passed the original through Neat Image to remove noise and used Curves in PhotoShop to render the college facade as a silhouette and increase the contrast in the sky. This revealed some hideous jpeg artifacts, which I reduced by gaussian blurring the sky. A spot of sharpening brought out the outline of the silhouette. So there you go, not really worth it but hey...
Out of Hours #2 // January 24, 2005
This is a shot from my second night trip to the business park near my home. You can see some similar shots here. Who knew fire escapes could be so funky?
Despite appearances, I haven't done much to process the image apart from a bit of contrast adjustment. I got about 10 minutes of this weird light just as the sun had dropped below the horizon.
Disco Loo // January 12, 2005
I went into Cambridge this evening armed with my tripod to get some night shots of the city. I was hoping to get some really great pictures of college architecture, cobbled streets and the river without the throngs of tourists that invade the city during the day.
This, however, was the best I could manage. It's actually a public toilet just in case you were wondering. It's not just any old toilet though, this one changes colour! It phases from blue, though green and red, to this gorgeous pink.
I'll leave college architecture for another day and maybe another camera. My FinePix will only go up to 15 seconds, which means I need street lighting, and my cheapo tripod is decidedly wobbly.
Out of Hours B&W // December 07, 2004
Some more pictures from Cambourne Business Park taken earlier in the evening than the ones here.
Guggenheim // December 06, 2004
This is a shot of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao (Northern Spain) - an amazing building clad in titanium and designed by Frank Gehry.
Out of Hours // December 03, 2004
As this is my first post on not as if... let me say a big 'Hello' to you. I hope you enjoy the site as it - and my photography - develops.
Down to the pictures. These are some night shots of a new business park near where I live. There are more in the series and I'll probably post them at a later date. Stalking about a deserted office complex at 11pm with a camera certainly gets the attention of the security guards.
