Wow. What a mad week it has been where my blog is concerned. The 5DMKII images have caused some serious traffic - nearly 50,000 page views in less than a week!! Thankfully the traffic levels are getting back to some sort of normality, so it is probably safe to post some proper images again without my website hanging :-))

The first two images are from the past week. Both were shot with the 5DMKII Beta camera with some post processing applied with my own actions. Before the pixel peepers and the conspiracy theorists on DPReview et al get their soap boxes out - I have added a lot of grain to these images in keeping with my style!!! Yes, I am allowed to do that :-))

I had some great news today.  One of my landscape images has been highly commended in the Landscape Photographer of the Year awards, in conjunction with The Sunday Times. This is the first time I've entered these awards, and I am thrilled to have had three images make the finals, and one image that has gone on to become highly commended. The images that are regularly entered into these awards quite literally take my breath away.

My image will now be exhibited in London, and will be published in the book that accompanies the exhibition. The interesting thing to me, is that with all the excitement over the 5DMKII and it's high iso, 21MP sensor etc...this image was taken with a mobile phone!!

 

The first image shows a boat keeper trying to get to grips with the notorious mud flats at Morecambe.

 

 

This second image is my interpretation of one of the 5DMKII test images that I showed earlier.

 

 

Finally, this is the image that has been highly commended in the Landscape Photographer of the Year awards. It was taken with a Sony Ericsson K800i phone, on the estuary near to where I live

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