APOY Entry Feb 2010

Today I went to South Gare near Redcar, behind Corus Steelworks that’s being mothballed (i.e. shut down). This is a place called Paddy’s Hole, with a smal harbour leading out to the mouth of the Tees. I went there a year or so ago on Christmas Eve for a walk and it was a really cold, windy day and we decided to go home. I’ve been meaning to return for ages.

One of my personal (not New Year) resolutions was to get out and take more photographs, and this was the first day of this resolution. I was also looking to take a photograph for this months Amateur Photographer of the Year competition which is ‘Islands in the Stream’, where land and water meet, and I thought I would get a few photographs from here to illustrate this.

The gallery below holds some of my favourites from the couple of hours I had there – I’m pretty certain that the main photograph is going to be the entry but I do like the one with the telly, which is similar to one I took over a year ago at the same place.

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May entry

These are the photographs that I entered for the Amateur Photographer of the Year Competition 2009, I only entered four as other things intruded on my planned photography.

The shot of the leaves of the Japanese Maple was taken in our back yard during an early spring shower, the droplets on the red looked really nice and seemed to magnify the colour of the leaves.

The portrait of the Pizza Man is from the Durham covered market, he was watching us approach and I had my camera in hand and he exclaimed, “I’m going to be famous” whilst gesticulating and I caught him in the process.

The footbridge is a new footbridge (to me) in Edinburgh from the St James Centre to the base of Carlton Hill, just everything seemed curved which was emphasised by using a wide-angled lens.

The shot of the group of friends was a lucky chance shot waiting for someone, the configuration happened just before we went home, I liked the vertical boy and everyone else gradually leaning into him.

This year I’m hoping to produce new photographs for each of the rounds and I’m in the process of planning this months (February 2010) shot already.

Steve

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