Last year I decided I wanted to try and capture a fly-by of the International Space Station. I’ve seen plenty of pictures others have taken of the ISS and decided I wanted to add one of my own to my…
Every day at 2:15pm, the penguin enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo is opened. The penguins that in the mood for a stroll gather at the door and as a group make a lap around the area near the enclosure and then…
Just east of Edinburgh at the East Fortune Airfield, there is a museum dedicated to.. well, flight. Its an old airfield from the second world war that has been converted into a museum. All the hangars are full of planes…
Warning – some of the images in this gallery may be deemed nsfw. The annual Beltane fire festival took place last Wednesday night April 30th on Calton hill in Edinburgh. Its a great opportunity for professional and amateur photographers…
I have done some tilt-shift photography in the past, but I’ve always had to apply the tilt-shift effect in post. If you know what tilt-shift is then you know about tilt-shift lenses and how this can all be achieved in…
The field of light exhibit is an art installation piece created by Bruce Munro. Its made of about 9500 lights all connected to various light source boxes by fiber optic cable. The exhibit opened February 3rd and is on until…
The Terracotta Lantern exhibit. I’m a little late in posting this, sadly my blog has been the victim of neglect in the past few months. So about the exhibit: The exhibit is comprised of a series of lanterns that resemble…
My first foray into urban exploration. Waverley gate is an old building in Edinburgh that has been re-tasked. In Britain they have a wonderful practice of taking historic listed buildings and gutting them while leaving the exterior intact. Then they…
The day after Christmas the family was looking for something to do that did not involve shopping. We had a toddler to entertain so I suggested we go to Seaworld just outside Edinburgh. Sadly no Shamu, but they had plenty…
Just before the Christmas break I met up with a friend of mine. She’s a stage actress with a wonderful voice. She even spent some time in Paris as Ariel the Mermaid in Disneyland. She wanted to update her portfolio…
Every Year Edinburgh gets a Christmas Market in the centre of town, and every year an army of local photographers descend upon it armed to the teeth with cameras and tripods. I am no exception. The market provides a great…
There are several steps to HDR photography so this will be a multi-part tutorial. We’ll cover the basics first such as what HDR is, when you’d likely want to use it, equipment, software and the best camera settings to get…
At the very end of August as the Edinburgh fringe festival winds down and most photographers are madly snapping away at the street performers I decided to go to holyrood park instead. I knew the sun would be setting right…
The Nelson Monument is an interesting structure. It’s architect designed it to look like an upside down telescope. It sits atop Calton Hill in the centre of Edinburgh and affords a view of the city that you cannot get anywhere…
Happy Halloween everyone! This year I got a little more into the spirit of things than I usually do. Normally I work Halloween night. Why? Because I moonlight at a ghost tour company in the evenings and Halloween is to…
The Meadows is one of the biggest and most well known parks in Edinburgh. Its a cool place where on sunny days many gather for bbqs, cricket, football (soccer), sunbathing and drinking. There are festivals and other small events that…
I spent a day walking through the new refurbished National Museum of Scotland. It’s free to get in but the occasionally have exhibits within the museum that you have to pay to get in. They’re special exhibits, one year it…
This is one of my favourite locations in Edinburgh. It’s called the shore probably because this road is called shore place. This is the old harbour district of Leith, which used to be its own city outside of Edinburgh but…
Doors open day was last weekend (sept 28 – 29). It is a weekend every year in Edinburgh where certain buildings and venues, usually not open to the general public, open their doors and allow people inside. Some places offer…
My girlfriend and I went to Cramond Island one a rare day where we were both off work. It’s a great place. When the tide is low you can walk across from the mainland right onto the island. You have…
Earlier in the summer I made an evening excursion to the Newhaven Lighthouse. It’s located just west of Leith along the coast in a small harbour that is home to a small number of fishing boats. The lighthouse itself is…
