sky on Oxymoronical

Antiquey Chrysler Building

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:09:41 +0000

I took this from the Empire State Building on a recent trip to New York. Most of the photos I took were of a fairly stock skyline variety but as I was editing this one it started looking like a vintage photo so I played with that a bit and I am pretty happy with how it turned out.

London skyline at night

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:42:09 +0000

I was staying near the O2 Arena in London for a conference and went out for a stroll one evening. The skyline was so pretty I had to spend some time trying to capture it. I love taking long exposure night photos but this was tricky because I didn’t have a tripod with me. Still I managed to get a 2 second exposure to come out, partly thanks to my camera’s image stabilisation.

Mobbed

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:23:11 +0000

It’s a common sight in California. A red tailed hawk just minding his own business and along come a bunch of crows to chase them off.

Bay bridge at night

Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:38:33 +0000

Long exposure night photos are one of my favourite things to do. They’re tricky, you have to be perfectly still so normally a tripod is needed. And often you won’t know how it turns out until you do it a few times. The human eye (and brain) is so much better at processing what it sees and generating a great image compared to a feeble lens and sensor. So this photo was kind of ridiculous. A 3 minute exposure, hand held thought stabilised against a windowsill, and I had to lean so far out of the window to get it that my wife had to hang on to me to make sure I didn’t fall out.

Ship at night

Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:55:25 +0000

Me and my wife took a cruise down to Mexico and on one of the days when we went to eat ashore it got dark as we were on the way back to the boat. I forget now how I managed a 30 second exposure without a tripod but I guess I must have used a handy post or something to keep the camera stable.

Flying overhead

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:37:11 +0000

After NASA decommissioned the space shuttles the Endeavour as flown to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. As part of the trip it did a low flyby over the NASA Ames Research Center and to celebrate they opened their doors for an afternoon of events and the chance to watch the shuttle fly by. We were lucky enough to be living locally at the time, and be on their mailing list having attended a previous event. It’s really something to see a space shuttle mounted to the back of a jumbo jet fly so close overhead.

Scaring prey

Sat, 26 May 2012 19:22:26 +0000

On a road trip to Solvang we stopped at a gas station and found a red-tailed hawk perched in a tree. Suddenly it flew into the air and started screeching trying to scare out some prey. Not super well focused but I love this photo anyway.

Explosion in the sky

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:14:18 +0000

One of our early homes was a condo on the top floor of a 6 storey building with a balcony. In California you very frequently get fantastic sunsets. It is one of the things I miss about the place. I applied a lot of processing to this to make it look even more moody than it actually was but I love the end result.