Latest sale from Alamy, a detail from a stained glass window in Bath Abbey. Not a huge sale (not many are these days) but here’s the sales info used: Country: United States Usage: Editorial Media: Retail book – print only Print run: up to 250,000 Placement: Inside Image Size: 2 page spread Start: 23 August 2010 End: 23 August 2011 … Continue reading
A telephone box and a church. I was struck by the juxtapostion of a telephone box and a church in Heaton Moor. Made me think of prayer. I also like the way the steeple was pointing upwards as if it was signally who we should be talking too. As the old BT advert used to say “It’s good to talk”…. … Continue reading
Gravestones in the snow For today’s POTD/365 image I headed up to our local church to take some photos of the churchyard in the snow. Nice to see a few graves with red flowers or wreaths attached to them. Needed to use an off camera flash camera right to fill-in the shadows on the front of the grave. You can … Continue reading
The old and the new. The dome of a Russian Orthodox Church and a modern office building, Tunis … Continue reading
Main entrance Lichfield Cathedral. Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Another image from Lichfield today – this is the main entrance to the Cathedral. Photographed in March 2007. … Continue reading
HDR: The nave at Gorton Monastery. Gorton, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Yesterday the C3 Photographers group went to Gorton Monastery. Today I’ve been working on those photos. I took quite a number of HDR images durring the day. Including this one which shows a number of photographers taking photos. Perhaps the most remarkable fact is that this image is … Continue reading
Dome of Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Valletta, Malta. The request at Photographers Direct asking for images of El Jem in Tunisia (the reason I’ve been posting El Jem pics on the POTD last few days) is also asking for images of Valletta in Malta. So today I uploaded a couple of my Malta photos to Alamy. Maltese Balcolnies … Continue reading
Those *&^%$ kids! A repeat peformance of football, shouting and yelling. At quarter to one in the morning I ask reception to deal with them. I am amazed to see as I go to the reception desk that come of the children can be little more than about 6 years old. Today we return to Damascus, but en route we … Continue reading
Statue of Ananias baptising Paul in the court yard of St Ananias. Old City, Damascus, Syria. Our first full day in Syria begins with a tour of Damascus. An early start and we are on the coach into the city. The tour starts with a visit to the Christian quarter of the city. We see the Biblical “Street Called Straight” … Continue reading
Woodford Church Grabbed a couple of quick shots in the church graveyard at Woodford this evening before the Witness for the Prosecution rehearsal. The shots are OK for the POTD but I forgot to check the ISO rating and they have all been taken at ISO 3200 and are all very grainy. At least my PC hasn’t crashed yet! … Continue reading