Top of the Rock, New York: 3 shot panoramic

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Just a few minutes before taking this image I was on the busy and almost claustrophobic streets of mid-town Manhattan, with car horns beeping, crowds of people everywhere and huge skyscrapers all around blocking out the sky as best they could. And then, after a very quick (and impressive) elevator ride I was high above [...]

My first timelapse test [video]

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If you’re not familiar with timelapse photography, it traditionally involves either speeding up film footage or taking lots of photos…in this case, 2353 photos to be exact. That’s two thousand three hundred and fifty three photos to give me roughly 1min 25 seconds of footage. For those of you that are familiar with timelapse, you’ll [...]

Miami skyline panoramic vantage points

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The Miami skyline is truly spectacular and watching it come alive as day turns in to night is certainly an experience…as was shooting from one of the two locations I’m going to talk about here. But it was well worth it to finally get a better version of this beautiful skyline than the grab shot [...]

Space Shuttle Discovery Launch

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‘Discovery now flying at 6000 miles an hour, 62 miles altitude and 177 miles down range from the Kennedy Space Centre’…Nasa mission control, heard from a fellow spectators radio, just 3 minutes after taking the photo below. Sunday the 15th March 2009, and, at 7:43pm Discovery finally launched on the STS-119 mission after more than [...]