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Amazing Halnaker Windmill Sunset

Wayne Humphrey — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:32:05 +0000

I know another sunset from Halnaker, I wasnt due to go back up the hill any time soon but a couple of fellow photographers from Hampshire wanted to hook up so i said i would take em up there. You can see there shots here both called Mark! Mark & Mark

What a great evening to have off and be able to share such and amazing sunset on the sussex downs.

Update to follow

New Galleries Up and ready for viewing

Wayne Humphrey — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:54:29 +0000

Just a quick update to let everyone know that i have now completed 5 of the galleriess on the gallery page

you can check them out below or via the menu
please leave comments and feedback on the website

The Atomium Brussels

Wayne Humphrey — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:04:47 +0000

Part 1 of a recent 4 day road trip across France, Belgium and Holland / The Netherlands.
Stopped off at Bruges firstly to get some fuel for the van but mostly so i could say i was “in Bruges”, then onto Brussels to visit the Atomium Building, built for the 1958 expo world fair and originally was supposed to be a temporary 6 month installation it still stands strong after over 50 years, the Atomium its self it has nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times and is situated in Heysel park just across the road from the Heysel football stadium.
To give and idea on the size of this for those of you that are local reading this the Height of the Atomium is 102 meters which is the same height as the spinnaker tower viewing deck give or take a few cms, however the main difference is that the Atomium is also nearly the same width as it is high thus in size dwarfing the Spinnaker tower.
Other random specs:
The spheres have a diameter of 59.0 ft. (2 buses)
The diagonal tubes are 75.4 ft. long and of 10.8 ft. diameter
The escalators installed inside the tubes of the Atomium are amongst the longest in Europe. The largest is 114.8 ft. long. They can take 3,000 persons per hour.
The elevator speed – the highest in Europe – is 16.4 ft./sec. It takes visitors up to the top sphere in 23 seconds and its capacity if 22 persons.

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Arundel Castle Sunset Silhouette

Wayne Humphrey — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:36:48 +0000

Recently i haven’t posted much due to me thinking most of my pictures taken recently were poor quality, turns out my monitor had some freaky settings, i have gone over some recent shoots and will be pulling some stuff from the archives over next week or so, on a similar note. I have realised that while i set a high standard for my images which is a good thing there are loads of photos that never even get seen due to my critical eye. After browsing the net for reference images i realise some of my poor work is better than the average posted work by other amateurs, after all i am still an amateur so why not post the average stuff too I take the picture to show people after all.

On that point here is what i consider to be a not so great shot of Arundel castle in silhouette at sunset, I only stopped because I was just loving the red colour of the sun. The sky was very hazy and the castle looked blurred so went for the silhouette instead

Manor Road Garage “Open”

Wayne Humphrey — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:41:12 +0000

An Image from the archives Manor road garage in east preston will shortly re-opens its doors this time though not as a garage, it has been refurbished into flats, I’m yet to revisit to see what it looks like but hopefully soon will go over and do an “after” picture but for now i gave this one a bit of a tweak in photoshop ……

NFL @ Wembley 2010

Wayne Humphrey — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:39:27 +0000

Yesterday i was lucky enough to go see My team the San Francisco 49er’s play NFL in the Uk v the Denver Broncos. After seeing them play twice at their home stadium at Candlestick park San Francisco, both game lost i really was hoping they would make it a third time lucky for me and I’m glad to say they did final score 16-24.

I havent had chance to look at all the photos yet but i saw this one and thought i would post it, if there are any good game images i will pop them up later as an addition to this post.

Photos now up click here to view

Festival of Speed Gallery 2010

Wayne Humphrey — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:46:22 +0000

Festival of Speed Gallery now up
The top half of the gallery will focus on pictures taken of moving objects, cars, bikes, planes from the moving motor show, the hill climb and the Forrest rally stages as well as the red arrows display.
and the lower half to follow in a few days will be of the static display cars
click on FoS Gallery above in the menu or …

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Festival of Speed 2010 center Piece

Wayne Humphrey — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:23:46 +0000

After the weekend has gone and i have sorted through all my images i will do a specific gallery for all the images rather than lots of posts, but mean while here is a slighty enhance hdr image of the center piece at the festival of speed 2010 right on the lawn in front of Goodwood House, this year celebrating 100 years of Alfa Romeo.

I will back on saturday to take shots of the racing, rally stage and the red arrows display and maybe some F1 cars.
check back for more pics soon……

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Bosham Harbour Sunset

Wayne Humphrey — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:39:06 +0000

Today im going to contradict myself, while out walking yesterday, I decided that I don’t post nearly as many images as I should and mostly its because I’m too critical of my work and that I only want to show the good stuff, but maybe that’s not how it should be after all if I take a photo it must have been for a reason right? So I thought why not share some more…. and as and when I take a good shot every time I can start weeding out the rubbish afterall im not a professional photographer so im bound to take a few bad ones.

That said here is todays post taken a few weeks ago i just havent got round to it and it just so happens i think that this is one of my betters ones. Sunday evening after a long hot weekend I went down to Bosham harbour at high tide as the sun was setting I sat for about an hour and watch the sun disappear and then smiled as the sky turned a fabulous colour and here is the result…….

The panorama is made up of 5 images side by side and stitched together

Comments welcome.

Racton Ruins – monument – folly light painting

Wayne Humphrey — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:16:40 +0000

After many trips and nearly 2 years of trying I have finally ticked of another one of my sites, on a long list.
Below is a shot I took while messing around (in -6 temperatures), just for fun, the folly is lit by the full moon coming through the tree which was casting shadows onto the walls, giving that extra spooky feel.

Racton Folly:The tower was built around 1772 for the nearby 1,750 acre Stansted Estate, probably as a summer house although it is shown on maps as a monument. It consists of a two storey triangular structure with three corner towers attached, from this rises a large tapering central tower which has three floors to it, this originally had a conical roof. The central tower, as well as the three corner structures, were also castellated at one time, although this feature like all the interior floors, has now disappeared. Some say that its original purpose was as summer house however, an alternative possibility is that it was built by the then owner so that he could see his trading ships berth at Emsworth, then a major port. Either way, it perhaps qualifies today more as a curiosity than a folly.

Wikipedia: Folly

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