Smoke Art

Had a tinker with the process I use to create Smoke Art pictures and came up with this, what do you reckon?

Thanks for Looking!

Come on you Clarets!

Congratulations to the Burnley team with their playoff win and promotion to the Premier League!!!!

Hope everyone who went had a great day!

23 players used over a 61 game season now thats teamwork!

See the full Story here: BBC News - Burnley 1-0 Sheff Utd

T-shirts

I’ve been tinkering with a few T-shirt designs what do you reckon then?:

These plus others can be viewed/bought here: Redbubble - My T-shirts

Martin Mere

Went for a wander around Martin Mere yesterday, not the best light for photography at times to be honest but the sun did appear now and then. Here’s a few pics:

Thanks for looking!

More Birds

Went out again today it’s still bloody cold, I think I was there about 3 hours anyway here we go:

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Bird Photography

Happy New Year, how did that happen what happened to 2008? anyway hopefully I will put more effort into this site this year as it’s sadly lacking in new posts! I’ve been trying to teach myself bird photography recently which mainly entails sitting in the woods freezing cold while the birds laugh at you from a distance! Here’s a few of my recent attempts:

Thanks for looking hopefully, I may have some news to share in the near future should things go to plan.

Jay

Burnley Mill fire 21/11/08

The was another large fire last night, this time it was Woodfield Mill on Trafalgar Street. I’ve got to say it was massive, I haven’t been down today to see whats left but there can’t be much! Anyway heres a few of my favourite pictures from last night:

Burnley Mill fire

There was a fire last night at Pentridge Mill Burnley, I happened to be at the Singing Ringing tree at the time taking photos and managed to get some long range shots of the blaze. I later followed the smoke to the mill which was surrounded by fire engines and decided to take a few more pictures. I have sent the following pictures to various newspapers and have had them displayed as part of the news feeds on the following sites:

Burnley Express

Burnley Citizen

This is Lancashire

Lancashire Evening Telegraph

I think a couple of the pictures will be featured in tomorrows Lancashire Evening Telegraph and some in Fridays Burnley Express. Not bad for a Monday night with the Camera! I took the long distance shots from Crown Point in Burnley using my Nikon 70-300mm VR lens with a 1.7x Kenko teleconverter giving me a 510mm lens which I had to manual focus, try holding that still at that range! the pictures aren’t my best but I’ll learn.

The photos I took are below [click for a larger view] or a slideshow from the Burnley Express can be viewed here Slideshow:

I’ve been busy!

I haven’t had chance to update the site much lately I’ve been busy teaching myself photography. I have created a new section called My Photography, which is a selection of my Smoke art pictures all of which can be purchased from here:

I hope you like them!

Pendles Fireworks Fantasia

Just got back from Victory Park in Barnoldswick, it wasn’t a bad fireworks display. It was £16 for my family to get in which I think was a bit steep but at least we managed to get to an organised display, our annual Burnley display (which is free!) was cancelled this year due to building works. All the pictures I have taken were with my Cameraphone (Sony Ericsson K800i) as I couldn’t be bothered setting up my tripod for my proper Camera (Nikon D40x) due to the amount of people.

Anyway the night was fun and alot of people attended if you would like to view my pictures they are here: Pendles Fireworks Fantasia I can’t currently display any in the post as Wordpress wants to view them full size instead of Thumbnail?.

The pictures have all been run through Imagenomic because they were a bit noisy and grainy but they didn’t come out too bad. Hope you had fun at your displays.