Old Harbour Bay part 2

Part 2 as promised.

This is an empty shell I found on the beach.

The first kinda looks like a planet that is on the verge of falling apart. The surrounding environment seems fiery and harsh, the surface of the planet is anything but lush and green, and there's a hole in the center, almost as if it has lost its soul. Thats what i see anyway....

Next set is a potential series:

And a few more landscape:

In this one I see a woman in the sky dancing. Does anyone else see that?

And a few of these are available as prints for order at http://dillyseyes.exposuremanager.com. Enjoy!

Delayed post: A bit of the Palisadoes

These photos were taken on October 25 2008 on a club trip. The UWI Camera Club met up at UWI at 4 am I think it was to be out to Palisados by 5:30 am to do some shooting. Below were a few of what I captured:

8 second expourse of i recall correctly:

Also 8 seconds

Old Harbour Bay part 1

Ok, so ive never been a landscape person, never really had an eye or much of a feel for it. However, these actually did not come out too bad..

Saturday August 14 (i know, long overdue) saw me leaving home at 5 am to get to Old Harbour Bay by dawn with a few other members of the UWI Camera Club. We were to do a 3 hour tour of the harbour in a fishing boat. Pretty cool if you ask me.Started off rocky (no eye for landscape) so the first few were pretty much rubbish. Eventually started to get into it a bit:

We were also blessed with a rainbow:

Then, further down, coming towards us, RAIN:

Thats right, rain. In the middle of the open seas. In a fishing boat. Yah. Our giude said that during rain we cant go anywhere, we just have to sit tight and wait it out. And so we did. I wasnt sufficiently prepared, luckily a fellow member had a spare "poncho in a pack" that i was able to use to shelter from the rain.

Eventually the rain stopped and we were on our way again, and stopped by the 1st of 3 intented quays around the harbour (the name escapes me at the moment). Can you say PRETTY!!

Think this was most of the landscape shots. In part 2 i'll post some non-landscapes I took on the quay(s).

...and more flowers

A bit more colour this time. I think this might be it for a while....maybe...need to move on to something else.

My next post is actually long overdue....did a photo trip two saturdays ago with a few people from the UWI Camera Club in Old Harbour Bay...literally in the bay...you'll see what I mean...will post when I go through those photos.

Some tabletop photography

Ok, so we have a glass table, a white tablecloth, an external flash with wireless trigger, and some flowers. Spread the tablecloth over the table, flowers on the tablecloth, and flash under the table. Below are some of the very cool results. I think I will be doing more of this...

Strawberry hill flora

The little woman had a function up Strawberry Hill and she strong armed - I mean, suggested, :) that I tag along for the ride. Ive never been up there before so I figured id take my camera and make the best of it. Beautiful place to say the least. The below are a few of what I got:

Im working on doing more nature shots with very shallow depth of field:

The below wasnt taken at Strawberry Hill but included it as another with shallow DOF:

Gwendolyn Phillips

a.k.a Grandma, more specifically my fiance's Grandma. The head strong woman that raised her granddaughter to the woman she is today, with the title of Dr. before her name and VP of an organization. She led quite an interesting life, being an orphan from very young, surviving the Kendall train crash, and an ardent political supporter having worked on several campaigns for her party of choice. Not to mention raising her 6 children and her granddaughter. Unfortunately she fell ill and passed a few weeks ago.

RIP Grandma, you will definitely be missed.

JCDC

I entered JCDC this year, entered 3 prints and got a Ceritificate of Participation for two. So I have two prints hanging on the walls at the National Gallery, thats pretty cool. The two prints are:



I get the feeling that JCDC looks for work that is more abstract and conceptual, which I dont do much of. So some motivation to work on that :)

Rains and Nature

So ive been making the best of the recent rains and going out and shooting whatever catches my eye outside my gate. Im happy with the results, seems I have a series in the making. Tell me what you think:






















































































































These photos can also be purchased here