Blackford Dolphin, Harland and Wolff

Harland and Wolff at Night

Famous for boat building and not just the Titanic, the Harland and Wolff cranes (Samson and Goliath) are an established trademark of the city of Belfast. I had paid the area alongside the also famous Titanic...
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Backstage at Belfast IF with the X100s

During Belfast's BigIF event the serenity and relative dry of the backstage area was my only safe haven from the weather. There was a remarkably relaxed atmosphere given the scale of the project and this...
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Exhibition : TWENTY

I hosted my first solo exhibition in the Island Arts Centre back in 2010. Through the Mill was a series of images documenting the sad demise of the four hundred year old Barbour Mill in Hilden. DATE:...
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Long Exposure Divergence

The technique of capturing long exposure photographs never gets dull. You can exhaust every jetty, bridge and waterfall in your area but there will always b somewhere or something else to explore with the...
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A Dozen Doors of University Square

I walked down University Square nearly every (term time) day in the early 1990s and today, for the first time in ages I parked in the street while meeting Phil Harrison of The Good Man fame. The street really...
Happy in the Rain

Belfast Summer

Ask anyone from Belfast the first word that comes into their heads when they think of summer 2012 and it is likely to be "rain". It has rained non stop for a number of weeks and we have dealt with local...
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Titanic Belfast

I am always a little cynical about celebrating failure but despite the tragic end there is no doubt the Titanic was one of Belfast's biggest success stories. Today we (and the now permanent companion of...
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Winter : Helen’s Bay

Having finally manage to get my hands on a Canon RC-6 remote control I decided it was time to go beyond my normal 30 second exposures and push to the 2-3 and even four minute captures. It is amazing just...
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Long Exposure Carnival

Newly acquainted with the 17-40 after a costly repair I wanted to create 2-3 examples of night based long exposure photographs. Set at 15 - 30 seconds it was time to capture the moving lights of a funfair....