Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Waiting Place

The most useless place as Dr. Seuss described in 'Oh, the places you'll go!'. And the first line as he describes what the waiting place is - 'Waiting for a train to go'. So that is what gave me the inspiration for this picture. Of course I wasn't thinking about Dr. Seuss when I took this picture but I was certainly inspired by the scenery. I was going for more a compositionally sound picture at the time, with the Windsor train sign placed so I could also capture the man sat waiting and the clock and telephone boxes at the end. The art of it struck me afterwards and that's when I began to think of Dr. Seuss' famous book. I took this picture just last Saturday after visiting Windsor Castle. I'm sure some of my pictures of the castle will pop up on here soon but I was much more excited about this picture after I took it than anything I captured at the great fortress.

I'm now a published author as well!

I'm not trying to modestly overexert my achievements but I have written a book you can find online. Ok so it's unlikely to become a bestseller or sell any outside the Newbury area but yes with my one-day upcoming exhibition in Newbury Town Hall (March 3rd), I thought I'd like to give people something else to look at, other than the pictures themselves. So I wrote and compiled a book called 'West Berkshire in HDR' which would showcase the HDR photos from my local area and also write about the pictures individually. Similar to what I do on this blog actually. There is a bit about the HDR technique in there as well, but the book is really aimed at none-photographers (more specifically Newbury locals) who haven't seen HDR before.

The hard copies are on their way to me but it is also available online as a downloadable ebook. So if you want to have a preview of it or indeed order a copy, please click this link:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2996848


4 comments:

  1. I love your HDR "the waiting place" and your other work, I also do HDR in the site "HDRCREME" my nick name is "Pandarino" i have about 240 images. I want to know how do you give all this beautiful luminosity to your HDR? If you can and have time to give me an answer thank you. You can replay to my mail pandarino2005@hotmail.it

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    1. Thanks for the comment Leonardo! Will definitely have a look at your website. Thanks for stopping by....

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  2. Really nice image, man. Love the processing on this. :-) Nice work!

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    1. Thanks for the comment Jimi! It's much appreciated and good to see yourself on here!

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