Cityscapes
If you're looking for photographic inspiration, then search no further than your nearest city.
By day or by night, the city environment is one of continuous change where the old and the new sit alongside each other often with a surprising degree of harmonisation. The never ending hustling and bustling of people add movement and vibrancy to the modern urban environment.
Architects with ideologies sit in their futuristic towers, designing bigger, taller and more flamboyant skyscrapers to create dramatic skylines that the world will recognise and gasp at in awe.
The phosphorescent lights of a million bulbs in every conceivable colour are cleverly utilised to add shape, colour and form to the network of city streets, whilst incandescent street lamps create rows of dynamic lines for the photographer to use.
Yes... the city is a great place for inspiration and the following images are just a small sample from my ever-growing library.
By day or by night, the city environment is one of continuous change where the old and the new sit alongside each other often with a surprising degree of harmonisation. The never ending hustling and bustling of people add movement and vibrancy to the modern urban environment.
Architects with ideologies sit in their futuristic towers, designing bigger, taller and more flamboyant skyscrapers to create dramatic skylines that the world will recognise and gasp at in awe.
The phosphorescent lights of a million bulbs in every conceivable colour are cleverly utilised to add shape, colour and form to the network of city streets, whilst incandescent street lamps create rows of dynamic lines for the photographer to use.
Yes... the city is a great place for inspiration and the following images are just a small sample from my ever-growing library.
FIRE IN THE SKY
This image shows office blocks sretching along the King Faisal Highway in the Manama area of Bahrain in the Middle East.
For this image my tripod was set at its lowest possible level. A wide-angle lens has ensured a pleasing and dynamic perspective, where the road appears to 'flow' into the lower corners of the frame allowing the viewer to be part of the scene.
The afterglow of a magnificent sunset has provided the 'fire in the sky,' and the long exposure has created the red traffic trails to balance the burning sky.
It was important to allow the highway to seemingly vanish into a position still within the confines of the image, as allowing it to disappear beyond the frame would have led the viewer away from the scene.
This image shows office blocks sretching along the King Faisal Highway in the Manama area of Bahrain in the Middle East.
For this image my tripod was set at its lowest possible level. A wide-angle lens has ensured a pleasing and dynamic perspective, where the road appears to 'flow' into the lower corners of the frame allowing the viewer to be part of the scene.
The afterglow of a magnificent sunset has provided the 'fire in the sky,' and the long exposure has created the red traffic trails to balance the burning sky.
It was important to allow the highway to seemingly vanish into a position still within the confines of the image, as allowing it to disappear beyond the frame would have led the viewer away from the scene.
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