Photograph Works

My diary in photographs

  • Royal Yacht Britannia

    It’s permanently moored on the Firth Of Forth outside Edinburgh.

  • Rhinos And Roan Antelope Get Big From Eating Grass

    rhino grazing
    Rhino Grazing

    I really have to reevaluate my thoughts about the value of grass and how animals get this big from eating it. It seems so contrary to ‘common sense’ and yet I know that cows and even the rhino subsist on it.

    two roan antelope
    Roan Antelope
  • Image Quality – Panasonic GF1

    As a real-world test of the image quality of the GF1, here is a scene in the center of Leeds with people watching a street performer.

    It’s a messy scene without focus, but also here is a crop of two percent of the frame that shows the detail that the camera can pick up.

    Important: Not sure what is happening with images uploaded here, but they are much more compressed than when they leave my home machine. Must be some setting within WPress at the server end.

    crowd in Leeds city center watching a street performer
    Street Performer
    close up of crowd watching street performer
    Crowd Close-Up
  • At The Taj Mahal

    This photograph didn’t make the cut for the People category of the Focus India section on the site, because the main subject was moving and blurred.

    However, it is perhaps interesting as a shot of the general scene around the Taj Mahal.

    scene at the Taj Mahal
    At The Taj Mahal
  • Looking At The Wall

    I took this photo mainly for the architecture of the staircase.

    Looking back at this photograph I can see that because of the way it is framed, the man in the white top on the right could be looking at the wall or at something on the wall.

    He is not looking straight ahead though – he is looking slightly to his left, and realistically, why would he be staring at the wall?

    That brings to mind that in photography it is a matter of framing and of knowing the back story.

    If it were a scene of a prison and the people walking down the stairs were warders, we could easily believe that the man in the white top was standing to attention facing the wall.

    We just can’t help importing our understanding of situations into the situations we see.

    man on landing looking at a wall
    Looking At The Wall