Ripples In The Sand

     Here's a fairly bleak shot, a beach bereft of sunbathers, a sea without any swimmers, nature at its finest, creating its own patterns and fun in the surf, notice the ridges of sand like long pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, as the water returns to the sea, each is a separate river, and the light creating a nice three dimensional feel to those tiny mountains and valleys, i like the way the clouds mimic what's happening on the beach, wispy patterns, and the two different but equally beautiful blues, the warmer greeny sea blue, and the colder purple sky blue, a lovely peaceful feeling, really therapeutic, i could sit there and watch it for ages.

The Underbelly Of The Eiffel Tower

     Here's a not so usual angle of the Eiffel Tower, from underneath!, the tower ends up wider than it is tall!, this pic doesn't represent it's huge height, the top two thirds of the tower become quite insignificant, however because the structure towers over the viewer, you can feel the weight of the enormity of all that metal, the wide angle gives the extra weight of oppressiveness, it works in the dark with the tower lit up, and the sky goes from pink at the bottom, to dark blue and black at the top, giving an extra sense of the monolith, i'm sure coloured filters must have been used.

Dark Clouds & SunRays

     Wow!, what a shot, it actually gives an impression of being shot underwater, and light is filtering down into the depths, that beautiful golden brown colour really makes an wonderful effect [i take it there's probably a colour filter used here], the clouds have this effervescent bright halo around them, and it's just those clouds full of interest and power, dark an ominous at the bottom, but bright and golden towards the top, it's the powerful rays which make the photograph, fanning out in light and dark beams, this shot really makes me feel part of the universe.

Windows / Reflection

     Here's a nice shot of a building, by shooting a shot of a different building!, the actual building being shot, is horizontally straight, and in the middle vertically straight up, but fans out as the upper floors reveal an increasing number of windows, you can see the overhead lights inside some of the floors, the reflected building opposite also has vertical lines parallel to first building, but the horizontal lines are at a nice angle, creating some lovely shapes, the sky / clouds are also seen between the two reflected buildings, a really nice photo with lots of interest for the eye to move around.

Golden Silhouette

     Now here's a really classy shot, i didn't realise how good this really was until i had another look today, it has truly stunning light in it, of course there's some fairly strong filter involved here, but it's a great effect, it looks as though an extra filter was involved in a big portion of the top right hand corner, and a little bit of the top left, makes the clouds there look dark and angry [the reason for the umbrella?], the sunlight is powerful, and gives a nice idea of fanned rays shinning down, the trees on the horizon give the picture a nice sense of scale, it looks hot!, only the bottom foreground is not greatly interesting, but it does frame the picture at the bottom.