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January Sunsets

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Tuesday, 17th, Jan, 2012

As part of a year long photography project which i will be sharing here at the end of the year, i have these 2 sunset photos that im putting on show here now.
i will continue to put other images from the project up but not all of them.

here are some January sunset photos from the images i have taken this year so far.


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Amazing Halnaker Windmill Sunset

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 3rd, Sep, 2011

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



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The Atomium Brussels

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 14th, May, 2011

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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Sloe Fair 2010 – Photos

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 20th, Oct, 2010

Exactly 2 years ago today I had a go at photographing this ride it wasnt a bad go for a first time, i have tried many times since but due to weather or positioning of the ride i was not able to get the right angle until today, still not perfect but i do like the effect………


For more information about sloe fair and the history see my older post CLICK HERE
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Racing into the Sunset

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 12th, Jun, 2010

Not Much to say about todays post apart from i went out by chance looking for new things to photograph and it turned out it was worth it, not quiet the shot i had in mind but quite atmospheric…..

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Sloe Fair Northgate Car Park, Chichester

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Friday, 23rd, Oct, 2009

Sloe fair at the northgate Car park in Chichester is some thing of a local tradition in more ways than one in more recent times tradition is that it always rains, however real tradition is that the fair takes place every year on the 20th October every year unless the 20th is a sunday in which case its is on the 21st, the right to hold the fair was passed by King Henry I in the 12th century. He gave the Bishop of Chichester the right to hold a fair on land where a car park now stands and the event was named after an ancient tree which once stood in the area. Fairs have changed a lot over the years and these days Sloe fair Comprises mostly of large mechanical rides with a few traditional stalls dotted about. What ever the circumstances at least one stall or ride must be open on “Sloe Fair ” day else the rights to hold the fair will be lost, in recent history (world war II) the rights were kept by opening a candy floss stall. The fair is much annoyance to the Chichester district council as there is little they can do to develop the land or car park without restricting the operation of the fair, whilst also closing its 2nd biggest car park for up to 4 days per year.

I went out on Tuesday night in the rain to do a reshoot of a photo that i shot last year when i was just learning about night photography, the ride in question although present was not in a position that i could get the same shot or indeed a good one ,add this to the rain and i didn’t even get to take a shot so here is the shot that i took last year.

Enjoy
Wayne

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1000 Hits from 25 countries and counting…

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 14th, Oct, 2009

Well as you know my site has been up a while now and after some mathematics and removing every time i log in today i have had 1000 hits on my website from 25 different countries which is above average according to Google… not bad for a 3 month old site.

Thank you to all that have visited and had a look and please come back also feel free to leave your comments under each post you can remain anonymous if you wish just make up an email address.

Heres some interesting facts for you … or maybe not….
when searching Google World Wide for “waynes photos” Ranked 2nd of about 42 million results
when searching Google uk for “waynes photos” Ranked 1st from 400,000 results

The busiest single day was 2nd July with 55 hits
The single most popular post overall has been The London Architecture Poll with 46 visits but only 15 votes :(
The average page view is 2.71 pages per visit, spending 3 minutes 17 seconds viewing those pages.
In reality there are a high number of single page visits staying for 10 seconds or less, but here have been a number of visitors how have stayed and given the site a thorough read through thanks you to Mondays visitor who stayed for 29 minutes reading 12 pages from the Uk. :)

55% of people visiting the site return for another look… :)
33% of visitors arrived from google or other search engines.

Overall there were visits from 25 countries around the globe in order of most hits first here are the stats

  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Italy
  • Romania
  • Ireland
  • Canada
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Denmark
  • South Africa
  • Belgium
  • Poland
  • Slovenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • France
  • Morocco
  • India
  • China
  • Argentina
  • Iran
  • Georgia

    • The 25th Country or region is … Unknown (ip region not set) so it could have come from anywhere

    There are hundreds more stats i could bore you with but i wont, but i will tell you that i can even tell the screen resolution of the pics or handheld devices the website is viewed on and i will be using this in future to maximise the size of the photos i put up.
    shame about the lens flare in this picture

    Sunset at East head, waynes photos

    hope i havent sent you to sleep, come back soon as i have some more images to post this week.

    Wayne

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    Sunset at East head, West Wittering

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Sunday, 11th, Oct, 2009

    Well i haven’t been out much with the camera in the last few weeks, despite wanting too. Every time there has been good weather or a nice sunset i have either had my girls with me or no camera, having a saturday free and knowing that i cant now get out for a week for sunsets i took a chance and headed out to east head at west wittering, always a popular spot for walkers and dogs and rightly so as it is very nice place to be particularly at dusk and sunset some breath-taking landscapes.
    Here is one of my shots from the sunset…..

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    Halnaker Windmill

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 13th, Jun, 2009

    On a recent trip out which was “rained” off by bad cloud, i took this photo of a sunset at Halnaker Windmill (its one of my favourite places for sunsets) while setting up the shot for later.
    Any how later never arrived.
    When I got home I merged several exposures together a technique known as HDR (High Dynamic Range), it basically takes all the best bits from 3 photos and puts them together, but you have to shoot on a tripod for this to be effective. Anyhow sometimes Hdr produces undesired effects or enhances things from the photos that you can see as well from one photo. The following image is one of those occasions, the rainbow effect has come from smears on the lens that couldn’t be seen with the eye, from when it was cleaned last.

    Halnaker windmill

    Halnaker Windmill, West Sussex.

    Enjoy

    Comments welcome

    Wayne

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    “Breaking” The Durdle Door

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 4th, Apr, 2009

    off we went down a very steep hill 20 mins later arriving at one of the most awesome natural coves i have ever seen, all set up and ready to go. Any how enjoy the picture
    Comments always welcome.

    durdle door, waynes photos

    Durdle Door

    Enjoy

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