No, not glamour model (now there's a challenge), but the effect of making real life look more like a scale model.
The first image makes good use of the "Tilt and Shift" effect, the art of warping the depth of field effect to such an extent it "fools" the eye in thinking you're looking at a scale model instead of the real thing.
The second image might as well have been a still out of Half Life 2, but it's the stairway at Sainsbury's car park.
Oh I know they're not called sunflowers, but they should be called that!
As it passed through the Warren earlier on today.
The third photo shows one of the newer Javelin class train sets.
Noticed this lovely skyscape while walking through the town to get the newspaper earlier on this morning.
I was the "official" promotional photographer for Folkestone Athletics. These are some of the players in training.
As well as this Spring turning out to be the driest and warmest for 30 years, it is also the sunniest - as this run of photos taken from my hobby room proves . . . and they are all in one consecutive run (four days on the trot with no breaks).
Looks like a still out of "Tron". It is a metal grill-type fence set in front of a brilliant clear blue sky.
Yet another HDR shot of an abandoned garage near Hythe. This shot comprised of six identical shots (but all varied exposures) merged into as one "super" image. I do like that First Person Shooter computer games effect HDR seem to be so good at creating.
That "glare" in the middle part of the photo was strong sunlight shining through a gap in the roof. It was that which provided the illumination alone!
White cats, strong sunlight and backgrounds all seem to go together so well.
The first image, of Princess, was actually the result of an accidental overexposure but I like the way it turned out.
Sea fog being forced upwards as it came up against some cliffs. Taken at 8 am this morning.
Usually appears when moist and warm upper air try to shift the cooler and drier surface air but instead the warmer upper air rides over it and this cloud layer just happened to have got caught up in it.
Think of warm water sitting on top of chilled cooking oil and you stir that warm water around (but not the cooking oil below).
This cloud effect is usually very short lived as the warmer upper air finally wins out, or the sun heats up the cooler surface air and the lot breaks down.
A group of kids went on a sponsored walk to get new gear for their up and coming football team. I was their "official" photographer for the day.
