Vertical Panoramics

I have added several new vertical panoramics of Italian towns and cities as well as a couple in London.

They are on the Recently Added pages for the next month or two and can also be found on the relevant Cities pages.

The Gallery pages are all driven by Keywords so just click the Refine Search tab on each Gallery page and you can select country, city, state/county or keyword. This then creates the pages with all images matching the search.

London Burlington Arcade

London Leadenhall Market

Bellagio, Lake Como

 Menaggio, Lake Como

Menaggio, Lake Como

Malcesine, Lake Garda

 Venice

 Verona

New Images of the Shard in London

I have just scanned 7 new images of the exterior of the Shard in London and added them to the website. Here's a selection. They were all taken on 10th January with quite a good sky at times but rain stopped play from 3pm to 6pm. Just 1 night shot as it eased off on our way home.

London Shard at Night from near London Bridge

Shard on Stilts

Shard Panoramic

Shard and Trees

New Images of London

Not wanting to be idle over the break we decided to go down to London just after Christmas to take photos!

Fortunately we had reasonable weather, except for some light rain as we arrived. I mainly concentrated on shots I hadn't already taken, like the Royal Opera House and Hungerford Bridge. Here are a few examples. More on the website.

I will be taking more this Friday 10th January. We have an offer to take photos from the Shard so keeping fingers crossed it's clear, forecast so far looks good. I will do some more around the base of it too.

Shard Framed

Young Dancer Sculpture and Royal Opera House

London Eye and Hungerford Bridge

New Photo of the Shard

New photo of the Shard, this one taken on my phone but proper one taken using my Mamiya 7.

Great day for photos in London today. We finished our whistle stop photo trip with shots of the Shard, Monument, Guildhall, the art deco Daily Express building on Fleet Street, Royal Courts of Justice and the Royal Opera House.

15 rolls of 120 Ilford FP4 to process from the 2 days. It will be a few weeks until they reach the website.

Photo Trip to London

We are in London for a day or so taking photos to add to my picture library. Today was wet and dull until early afternoon and then really good light until dark.

Smithfield and Spitalfields (image attached taken on phone to show what I took on my Mamiya 7) Markets were first. In fact I did Smithfield twice as the light improved so much. Then the Old Bailey, St Pauls (as if I don't have enough already!), then on to the Millennium Bridge for a shot towards the Tate on the south side. Unfortunately, I grossly underestimated the numbers of people who would be there. It was impossible to get the shot. The bridge was a solid mass of people.

We moved on to the Waterloo Bridge for shots along the Thames in both directions. The Hungerford Bridge with London Eye behind was the view I wanted but the other direction to St Pauls (yet another one!) and the Shard was good too. More shots of Hungerford Bridge followed as it went dark but I was thwarted at Westminster Bridge as it wasn't lit apart from a few street lights, nor was the Houses of Parliament apart from Big Ben. Have made a note to return at dusk on a future trip.

8 rolls in total, that's 80 negatives with quite a few duplicates, just in case. A good start.

Tomorrow the forecast is good until mid afternoon so heading straight to Shard for a vertical panorama from below. The rest of the day will depend on the weather and time.

Ideal Home Christmas Show Photos

It was a busy and full day at the Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court today. We were open for 11 hours, closing at 9pm.

I wandered around taking a few photos as the crowds thinned out late on.

The indoor ice rink was a novelty. We've done shows with breweries before but not with an ice rink (Buxton shows excluded of course!).

Still 3 days to go. Show closes on Sunday late afternoon. We are getting some exercise though as the walk from the Travelodge in Battersea to Earls Court is a bit under 3 miles/50 minutes walk each way. It was too late for anything except a Chinese takeaway today, and a bottle of Hobgoblin!

Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court Stand Photos

Our stand at the Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court in London is now finished. We are on the ground floor stand 1F118.

For more information click here. 

www.idealhomeshowchristmas.co.uk

Here are the stand photos to show the display and space.

Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court

Set up and ready for the Ideal Home Christmas Show www.idealhomeshowchristmas.co.uk at Earls Court. Our stand is 1F118 on the ground floor. Lots of show offers. Lots of new pictures. Large stand.

They hadn't laid the aisle carpets when we left so I'll take photos tomorrow morning and do another post. Walls and carpet that they provided are white. Not expecting carpet to stay white though! Looks great with our black and white stand.

The opening times are 10am to 6pm Wednesday to Sunday with late night opening Thursday until 9pm. Ticket info on the website, click the link above. It's a big one, over 650 exhibitors on 2 floors.

PhotoLive 2013

All set up ready for the starting pistol of PhotoLive 2013 www.photo-live.com!

Expecting lots of people today for the dozens of lectures, hopefully some will come to mine!

My lectures today are.
The Art of Monochrome City Scenes, 10 to 10.45 am, room 7

The Art of Monochrome Landscapes, 3 to 3.45 pm, room 1

My stand is 3a. Here's a picture of it. Mostly books and a few pictures.
All books at much reduced prices.

PhotoLive 2013 This Weekend

The new PhotoLive 2013 event in London is fast approaching. It is being run by Future Publishing whose titles include Photography Week, Digital Camera, PhotoPlus, NPhoto and Practical Photoshop.

I am one of the 30-odd lecturers for the 2 day event, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October.

My lectures are 10 - 10.45am, 'The Art of Monochrome City Scenes', and 3 - 3.45pm 'The Art of Monochrome Landscapes', same lectures at the same time on both days. There are 10 to 13 lectures going on at the same time throughout the day so lots to choose from.

Use discount code SC_15 for a 15% discount on the day and weekend ticket prices. You can also buy tickets for individual lectures at £20 each.

My lectures are brand new. I'm still trying to learn my words, never easy as I refuse to use a script and generally just make it up using the prints to prompt me. Yes, even in this digital age I am still doing new print lectures from my film negatives! These have 30 prints in each. Apart from 1 poster in the city lecture all of the prints are silver gelatin darkroom prints. A lot of these are new fibre based prints made by me over the last few weeks.

The landscapes lecture is mostly illustrated with mountain photos, the city lecture mostly includes photographs from my new City Light book.

I also have stand 3A in the PhotoLive retail area. You can visit this without paying any fee at all. My landscapes books, Lake Light, Peak Light and High Light are all £5 instead of £15. City Light is £10 instead of £15. Free autograph and bag with every purchase!

I will also have details of the courses for next year, if you want to have a chat about these or private tuition.

The venue is the Novotel London West in Hammersmith.

Still time to book using the SC_15 15%-off discount code!

Hope to see you there.

New Images of London

There are some new images of London on my web site. I tried to add locations that were missing, as well as a few more of the old favourites. There are 15 new ones in total.
Here's the link to the Recently Added pages.
Here's the link to the Permanent London Section.

I still have several hundred images to go through in my picture library, and we are down to London again in November for the Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court so will take some new ones then (while Jan is running the stand!).

Telephone Boxes on Carey Street

Admiralty Arch and Steps at Night

Big Ben and Underground Sign

St Katharine's Dock Reflections

7 More London Riverside and the Shard at Night

International Graphics at Grand Designs Live with Dave Butcher Photograph

I'm at Grand Designs Live and didn't know it!

I have just discovered that International Graphics Walmsley, who publish my photographs as large prints, have one of my images on their stand at Grand Designs Live at the London Excel exhibition Centre.

The show ends on Sunday 12th May 2013 and covers everything to do with designing, building, equipping and decorating your new or renovated house.

If you are visiting they are in the Interiors section on stand L85.

My photo of St Paul's Cathedral from the London Millennium Bridge at Night is displayed centre stage at 1.8m x 0.9m. That's quite large!

Ian Cairns from IGW took these photos to show the stand with my picture and gave permission to use them here. Thanks Ian!

IGW have been publishing and selling my work around the world as large prints since 2008.

All images copyright © Ian Cairns of International Graphics Walmsley GmbH.

New London Photos

I have also added several more London photos from our trip in April (coincided with the London Marathon). For the next month they will be in the Recently Added Gallery but here is the permanent link to photos of London.

Here are a few examples:

New Moon Pub in Leadenhall Market

London New City Hall and Tower Bridge at Night

Gherkin from Mitre Street

Bank of England and Bus

New London Images

I have managed to find some time to scan and edit some of my new images from our recent trip to London. Here are a few examples. I have another 18 scanned and part-edited but unsure when I will find time to have these added too.

I obtained a permit to take the photos around City Hall this time, filling in all 25 pages of the application form, but it was worth it for the shots. The buildings around there are spectacular plus that area has the best views to the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.

The Burlington Arcade shot was taken after being moved on by the security guard. After chatting with him for a few minutes he kindly told me where the limit of the property was (just a couple of feet further back). The shot shown here actually benefits from having the black wrought iron gates in the foreground.

I was disappointed that they have removed the Underground signs from outside Westminster station. I wanted to get an improved shot with the sign in the foreground and Big Ben behind. I'll just make do with what I took last year. The bus light trails shot worked quite well though.

What a relief to finally see the Albert Bridge (Victorian vintage) resplendent after a lengthy refurbishment. Last year (and the one before) it was covered in white plastic as they worked on it. Now, it looks spectacular; I can understand why it's known by many as the prettiest bridge across the Thames in London. The Prince Albert down the road on the Battersea side is a good one too!

The Shard from The Scoop theatre near City Hall

Albert Bridge at Night

Big Ben and Light Trails

Burlington Arcade

Battersea Power Station and Telephone Box

There are more on the Recent gallery on the web site:

www.davebutcher.co.uk/gallery/recent

To see all of the London shots on the web site click here:

www.davebutcher.co.uk/gallery/cities?place=London