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During our recent trip to the Outer Hebrides we stopped at an art gallery near to the beach at Luskentyre for a browse and a cup of tea to escape the rain that had blown in off the Atlantic. We did buy a couple of items that were coloured a vivid blue, just like the sea just outside the window.  One of the items we bought were a pair of glass coasters, which were blown full of air bubbles.  This made a fantastic object for a still life I set up in my office, shooting the coaster with the LED video light behind to highlight the textures and colours in the glass. Here are two shots taken on the Fujifilm X-T1 and Fujinon XF60mm f2.4 macro lens.  The one at the top of the page was taken across the glass using an aperture of f2.4 to give a shallow depth of field.   The second image is taken with the coaster parallel to the camera with the aperture set to f5.6 to increase the depth of field. -----------------------------------------------------------------...

Sometimes I find things to photograph in the most unusual places.  We decided to visit the S. Luca Ice Cream Parlour and Cafe in Musselburgh and behind our table was this wonderful floor to ceiling glass wall.  The sun was low in the sky and light was coming between the buildings in the centre of the town and hitting the glass, producing wonderful blue and green colours.  As usual I had my trusty X100 to hand to capture the image before the light faded away. S. Luca is a traditional ice cream maker in this part of Scotland and has been a family run business for over 100 years.  More information on S.Luca can be found HERE   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - ...

One of the best things about living on the coast is beach combing and one of our favourite things to collect is sea glass.  We have a glass jug that sits on the window sill in our living room.  In the morning the sunlight sometimes catches the glass pieces and the colours are enhanced in a beautiful display. On a day when it was impossible to get out and about with the camera and my trigger finger was itching, I remembered the sea glass jug and this gave me the inspiration for a table top still life.   Choosing some of the most interesting pieces of sea glass, I used an old picture frame complete with glass front and arranged the sea glass on top.  I raised the picture frame off the table and used a directional office lamp to put it shining up underneath so the light was through the sea glass.   I then took a series of images using the Fuji X-Pro1 and Fujinon 60mm f2.4 macro lens.    Fuji X-Pro1 - 60mm f2.4 macro - 1s @ f11 - ISO200 ...

A couple of days ago I posted some pictures of The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union and the second tallest in Europe.  There is a lot of new buildings going up in around the London Bridge / Tower Bridge area with a group of shiny new offices in what is now called More London Place. Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 1/1250 @ f4 - ISO400 More London Place is new the Greater London Council offices and near to Tower Bridge and consists of office buildings, apartments, cafes and shops.  The glass sides and strange architecture provided plenty of photo opportunities. Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 1/200 @ f8 - ISO400 Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 1/170 @ f5.6 - ISO200 Nikon D800 - Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 - 1/160 @ f5.6 - ISO200 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSIO...

Nikon D800 - 17-35mm f2.8 - 1/500 @ f8 - ISO400 One of the newest additions to the London skyline is The Shard - so named because it is shaped like a shard of glass - which at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) high, it is the tallest building in the European Union, and the second-tallest in Europe, after the Mercury City Tower in Moscow.  Construction began on The Shard in March 2009, was inaugurated three years later on 5 July 2012 and was opened to the public on 1 February 2013.  Work continues on the interior with a hotel opening on the 34th to 52nd floors later this year. The Shard will also contain offices on its first 28 floors, restuarants above that, apartments with stunning views on the 53rd to 65th floors and the viewing platforms will be at the very top from floors 68 to 72. The Shard dominates the south bank of the Thames from the Millennium Bridge to Tower Bridge so we set about trying to capture images of this massive structure, trying to give pe...