Cats.

In the past couple of years I've learned something about myself, as much as i like dogs, i really am more of a cat person, which is why i found myself taking photos of cats today :D

Ocean.

 Ocean here is my next door neighbours cat, her along with her sister Socks are often in my back garden :D

Teddy Bear.

Teddy Bear, or just Bear for short is a silly old tom cat that lives (& mooches food off of people) in my neighbourhood :D
...god I love the high contrast monochrome & toy camera modes on my camera :D

The Mist.

It was a foggy day in Brighton today...

The Mist.

Panoramic of the Palace Pier in black & white :D

Beyond the Horizon.

I mentioned before that one of my favourite subjects of photography was light trails, well another of my favourites is cloudscapes, & with this sunsets/sunrises, which provide for some interesting photos, like this :D

Beyond the Horizon.

Morning Glory.

Another photo from December, I love trains, particually steam trains like this one, the Pacific Steam Locomotive No. 34067 Tangmere. as it goes through Portslade-by-Sea station travelling to the Bath Xmas Market, aprox. 120-150 miles away.

 Morning Glory.

Winter.

To me winter only means one thing to me, it gets darker early in the afternoon, & because it gets darker earlier it means I can capture one of my personal favourite subjects of photography, light trails. Now as its January, its gradually now starting to stay lighter for longer, so I thought i;d show you some of the light trails I caught during the nights of December. :)

Rainy Days I.

 Rainy Days II.

 Driving Home For Christmas.

 Untitled.

 Untitled.

 Rush Hour.

Ok, technically the last photo here was from the year before last, but its still one of my favourite light trail/long exposure photos i've ever taken. These were all also taken with my older camera. :)

Haunting.

These were the first proper test photos from my new camera, taken of the full moon from my back garden, both with the full moon in focus & out of focus. I thought they both looked good, they had a chilling feel to them, so I named them Haunting.

Haunting I.

Haunting II.

I don't use generally use the manual setting on my cameras, usually preset ones such as portrait etc. These photos are no different, but as this was a test of my new camera, I decided to try a preset mode that was new to me, Toy Camera mode, an in camera photo edit mode, it makes the colour pronouced & gives a shading effect around the edges of the photo.

2012.

Well, how to start this new blog then? I would say happy new year, but, that was two weeks ago. So this will be my photogaphy blog, which you guessed it, i'll be showing my photography on, so enjoy :)

So to start off the new year I got a new camera, the Sony SLT a35, which i've had my eye on for a while. Previously I had (well, technically still have) the Sony a200 DLSR. I bought a flashgun with some of the money I got for xmas, I also got rain mack for my camera at xmas too.