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Sunset over St Wulfram's, Grantham. This weekend we spent two days up in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. We stayed in Berwick-upon-Tweed and visited North Berwick, Kelso, Newton-on-the-Sea and Durham. I will be posting images on these visits in the next few days. After a long, boring trip back down the A1 to Grantham, we were greeted home by a spectacular sunset over the town. A quick stop to capture the colours over St Wulfram's Church before heading back to the house for a much needed cup of coffee. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION If you like what you see on this blog please visit our  Facebook  page and click 'like' MORE IMAGES CAN BE VIEWED ON  FLICKR  AND ON OUR  WEBSITE

This shot was taken at Curbar Edge in the Peak District this week.  This is one of the millstones that were cut   at the site and then were left below the cliff for some reason. Nikon D800 - 17-35 f2.8 AF-S (at 17mm) - 1/60  @ f11 - ISO200 - Tripod - Lee 0.9 Grad ND Soft Filter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION If you like what you see on this blog please visit our  Facebook  page and click 'like' MORE IMAGES CAN BE VIEWED ON  FLICKR  AND ON OUR  WEBSITE

A camera armed with a macro lens opens up a whole world of opportunities for photographers.  A lot of cameras sport 'macro' functions or a lens will say it has a 'macro' facility but unless a lens can reproduce a lifesize image (1:1) or better then it isn't a true macro lens. Macro photography is described as extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is equal to or greater than life size. These shots were taken on a Nikon 60mm f2.8 AF-D micro lens, which does give the magic 1:1 reproduction.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION If you like what you see on this blog please visit our  Facebook  page and click 'like' MORE IMAGES CAN BE VIEWED ON  FLICKR  AND ON O...

A trip to the Peak District in Derbyshire today didn't start off so well with grey clouds and driving rain.  Sometimes you have to wait to see if the weather conditions will change and our patience was rewarded with a fantastic light show as the sun broke through the clouds to light up the landscape. Standing on top of Curbar Edge, we set about capturing the ever changing sun bursts and here is a small selection of images from today's shoot.  There are still more to come as I still have several more images to look through. Nikon D800 -  Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 Nikon D800 -  Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 Nikon D700 - Sigma 50-500 f4/f6.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION If you like what you see on this blog please visit our  Facebook  page and click 'like' M...

This was a tree branch that had an array of small brown growths along the length of the branch. This was taken in early January on the Fuji X100 with a shallow depth of field to emphasise the textures and colours.  The light was from the low winter sun to my left filtering through the trees. Fuji X100 - 23mm f2 - 1/250 @ f5.6 - ISO 800 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION If you like what you see on this blog please visit our  Facebook  page and click 'like' MORE IMAGES CAN BE VIEWED ON  FLICKR  AND ON OUR  WEBSITE

A day in Paris for a Media and Marketing seminar didn't give me much time for any photography so I decided to take the 30 minute walk back to Gare du Nord from the Hotel Concorde Opera and see what I could capture with my new D800 along the route. Église  de la  Sainte - Trinité The Église  de la  Sainte - Trinité caught my attention and I managed to get some shots of the church from the road with the 17-35 f2.8 lens.  There was a lot of construction work going on around the church at ground level so I had to be careful how I framed the shot.  Using one of the ornate lamp posts as a bit of foreground interest I managed to frame this shot. Gare du Nord I was running out of time so I headed to the Gare du Nord to catch my Eurostar to London but not before I took a quick shot of the station from the Eurostar check in area. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

The Thames from 10000 feet One of the joys of my job is the travelling to distant lands but that means a lot of long haul flights, which can be a bit boring to say the least.  When I flew back from Shanghai via Abu Dhabi last November I relieved some of the boredom by experimenting taking pictures out of the aircraft window. Northern Turkey Now anyone who flies regularly knows aircraft windows are not the cleanest and the material they are made create some distortions.  However on this flight, while flying over Turkey, the light was just perfect and the windows pretty clear, so using my X100, with its near silent shutter, I captured some shots over northern Turkey. Later when we were coming into Heathrow, the aircraft had to circle over London and again the light was beautiful. Flying east over the Thames, I saw the Queen Elizabeth bridge at the Dartford crossing, so once again the steathy X100 was brought into play.  As ...