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