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Iceland: colour

Nick Miners — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:19:52 +0000

South coast of Iceland, 28th-31st August 2010.

Iceland: water and ice

Nick Miners — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:19:25 +0000

South coast of Iceland, 28th-31st August 2010.

The Long Line

Nick Miners — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:31:51 +0000

The long line is here.

Just an experiment.

Un jour à Paris

Nick Miners — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:13:21 +0000

Earlier in the month, pretty much on a whim, I booked a return train to Paris for my family and me so we spent most of yesterday in this famous European capital. We started (as we almost always do) in Montmartre, which while very touristy, has some very colourful shops to photograph and an unbeatable view of the city from in front of the Basilique du Sacré Coeur. Despite this, I enjoy visiting the area less and less each time, as there are an increasing number of hawkers, blaggers and outright con artists, all trying to take advantage of the gullible tourist, and it’s a real effort just to avoid making eye contact or engaging in a conversation with one of them.

After getting our fill of the panorama, we headed south to the Centre Georges Pompidou, a gallery and modern art museum. Designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano in a style reminiscent of London’s Lloyd’s Building, the building has most of the infrastructure and structural support on the outside, leaving the interior free of clutter and with ample room for the interesting stuff. A set of escalators take you up inside a glass pipe which runs outside the front of the building, all the way to the viewing gallery at the top, where the Eiffel Tower can be seen to the west, and while one of the two galleries is currently closed, there is a very good exhibition of the work of Pierre Soulages.

Before leaving we visited another famous Parisian cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris, which stands on a island in the middle of the river Seine, and I created some abstracts using the various coloured lights of shops, cars and traffic signals. Then with sore feet and tired eyes, we headed back to Gare du Nord to catch our train back to St Pancras International and head home.

Cornwall

Nick Miners — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:23:30 +0000

To recover from my visit to the Lake District, but primarily in order to have a holiday with my family, we all travelled down to Cornwall for a week to stay near the town of Mullion on the Lizard peninsula. A smaller collection of photos this time (this WAS a family trip) but there are some here I really like.

Manchester

Nick Miners — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:29:19 +0000

A few black and white abstracts from the city of Manchester.

The English Lakes

Nick Miners — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:27:45 +0000

The Lake District in Cumbria is a region of mountains, valleys and lakes in the north west of England, and is one of the most beautiful spots in the country. Mark Casey and I visited the region for a week with our cameras to capture the height of autumn in all its glory, after first scaling the second highest mountain in England, Helvellyn, via the famous, treacherous Striding Edge.

Northern Ireland by Camera

Nick Miners — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:12:00 +0000

I have just returned from a tour of Northern Ireland as part of the occasional, ongoing By Camera series of galleries, where I tour a location with some friends with the sole purpose of taking photographs. Until the others have picked their photos for the minisite, I have put up a selection of mine.

Into the MMIX

Nick Miners — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:35:04 +0000

Happy New Year to all (both?) of my readers (is there anyone there reading this? If so, please say ‘Hi’ in the comments)! Here are some end of the year pics from London; we were let out of work early so I brought my camera in for some late afternoon abstracts…

I hope 2009 brings everything you want and more.