Category: Urban Landscape

  • #179 – Thorpe Marsh Revisit part 3 – Railway Miscellenea

    #179 – Thorpe Marsh Revisit part 3 – Railway Miscellenea

    Like pretty much all power stations, Thorpe Marsh was rail linked, in fact it sits alongside the East Coast Main Line. For some reason, the sidings are still intact, albeit heavily overgrown with those trees that seem to grow spontaneously on all disused railway lines. Intriguingly, there are also bits of the signalling insfrastructure still…

  • #178 – Thorpe Marsh Revisit part 2 – Inside The Egg Cup

    Ever wondered what it looks like inside a cooling tower? It looks like this:) Well stripped out ones do. Normally they have all kinds of cooling gubbins in, but this is just a shell.  The fog had just lifted, although the sky is still slightly hazy, but the hint of a shadow shows that the…

  • #176 – The Last Days Of Fernhurst Mill – DoF Tomfoolery

    With the trespassing element of the visit complete, I thought I’d indulge in a bit of creative arty-fartyness. Nikon D700, 28-70mm, 1/1600 @F2.8  

  • #129 – An Unusual Visitor – Part 2

    Just a few more of the River Carrier before it left Preston. I packed a camera and visited the dock on my way into work in the morning, and as expected, I got a nice reflection due to the stillness of the air and the sun being low. Shame about the dockside being on the bottom…

  • #15 – Sardinian Shadows

    I don’t know why, but this scene just caught my eye. I loved all the little streets of Cagliari and when I wandered down this one the way the shadows created this wonderful image in front of me. It was an obvious candidate to convert to mono! All it needed was someone to be in…