365/74: 04 May 2010: I need to get out more…

..or at least get out of the hotel more. In Largs tonight, at the Brisbane House hotel, which has been done up very nicely since the last time I was here. Should really have gone into Largs and taken some photos across to Cumbrae, but the light was not great and i was a bit short of time so here’s another B&W of bathroom fittings:

Rather fancy shampoo bottles – don’t you think?

365 Challenge Day 36 – 27 March 2010 – Playing with Photoshop

Started out with good intentions today – while I was waiting for my youngest to complete her keyboard lesson I was going to walk along Silloth seafront and take lots of photos. Then I discovered how cold and windy it was! Fortunately you can get close to the edge in the car, so I settled for some shots of gulls from the car window. Sat in front of the fire at home, I thought I’d give one of the a working over with Photoshop and came up with this:

Got to this point fairly easily by being a bit rough with the sky in a Levels layer.
And, as it’s the weekend, I thought I’d go mad and take some more photos. Particularly liked the way the sunlight was catching my shaving kit on the window ledge.

365 Challenge – Days 24-27 : 15-18 March 2010

Another four days on the road. First night (Monday 15) was yet another late arrival at the Park Royal, but the bathroom came up trumps with this one. Quite like shooting in hotel bathrooms (sounds like a Psycho remake) because all the white tiles make for more uniform lighting. This one shows the distortion you get with an ultra wide angle – if you’re in to photo geekery.

On the second night we moved to the rather pleasant Lowry Hotel in the middle on Manchester for a big two–day meeting. Just love city architecture, and the Lowry has some really interesting stuff quite nearby – like this bridge over the River Irwell. Wished I brought my proper tripod with me as photographing in light this low is always a challenge with just a monopod.


The first full day of the meeting finished early enough for me to get out in the evening light  and have a go at catching the spirit of the odd-shaped building in the top left of the previous photo. I shall have to find out why it was built like this:

And finally home again (18th March). As I wore a collar and tie for most of the conference I thought I’d celebrate this unusual feat with a picture of one of my ties.

So there we are. Back on blogging schedule – with the first month of the challenge in my sights.