Streets of Milan

On one of our days in Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy last year, we drove to Milan for the day. Driving in northern Italy is surprisingly easy and efficient, and outside Milan there’s a network of park and ride stations where you can park cheaply (about €2 – €3 for the whole day) and then catch the metro into the city. You probably don’t want to drive in Milan centre, it’s maze of streets perpetually congested and slow. We parked at Lampugnano and head into town on the train, emerging at the Piazza del Duomo with the superlative Milan Duomo standing like a golden beacon. Milan is a great place to visit. The narrow, twisting streets are as good looking as its inhabitants. It was the amazing light that drew me to this street scene. A rainstorm had just hit close to sunset, but it was over quickly and the sun was poking through holes in the clouds. The reflections on the street were sublime and turned a regular street scene into something more asthetic, while the tramlines vanishing into the centre of the image from the lower right add geometric interest. One of my fave shots from the trip. See more pheatured photos →

Christmas in Brazil.. not a bad time at all.

I love the beachfront promenade in Rio de Janeiro. Though it mightn't look that attractive in aerial shots, when you're on the ground you realise those black and white patterns are actually formed from cobbled mosaic, and it looks very, very pretty. The locals use their promenade for all sorts of things- lounging about, jogging, and on Sundays all manner of personal transportation such as skateboards and rollerskating as it is closed to traffic. On Christmas day I was hanging out in a beachfront apartment and snapped this guy out the window from above. I used my go-to F8 aperture. I love the conflicting geometry of the cobblestones and the tropical plants. See more pheatured photos →

Arlington row at Sunset, Bibury

Arlington Row in Bibury is one of the most photographed sites in all of Britain. Built in 1380 from the local golden stone of the Cotswolds, the buildings were oringally a wool store attached to a monastery and later provided housing for weavers for the local Arlington Mill. I first shot here at sunset after arriving in town. I used f8 as my regular go-to setting to get a decent amount of depth of field in the houses coming towards the foreground while still allowing some fuzz in the background for perspective. Really, the art here was mostly in the framing. The light was not ideal because it was behind the subject and as a result I had to blow out the sky to capture the darker details, but there were some nice lens-flaring effects as the sun went down. I came back and shoot again at sunrise, but surprisingly ended up liking the sunset shots better. See more pheatured photos →