where art collides

A plimsoll line on a tea clipper.

I’ve just returned early from an unfortunately rained out holiday to Cornwall.

I had won a camper rental for a week as part of a competition, always nice to win something. Not that it happens often.

Whilst the weather was good, it was glorious, I got the opportunity to visit some of the touristy sites around Penzance and take some great shots.

The one below is definitely the stand out for me, so far anyway. It’s St. Michael’s Mount,just off the coast at penzance.

When the tide is low it exposes a walkway from the beach to the  island itself. A place that would have captured my imagination as a boy. And still does to some extent as an adult.

I took five bracketed exposures using a tripod and layered them into an HDR with some minor adjustments. The clouds were just rolling in, loaded with rain. I could not have picked a better time for the shot(s).

I travelled to Queenstown back in may 2008. It was also the same time that I started screwing around with stitching panoramic images from multiple exposures.

It wasn’t until recently that I revisited the original raw images and decided to re-stitch them, and the results are much better than they were the first time, I have definitely come a long way with photoshop.

I took the cable car up to the top of the hill and took 55 images, 45 of which make up this stitched image. The mountains in the background are the Remarkables and the town in the middle ground in Queenstown itself. At the bottom right is the camper park that I was staying at.

Queenstown is a beautiful town and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes snow and extreme sports.

The blog has a maximum uploaded file size, so I’ve put a lower-res version of the image here. If you’d like to see the larger one click here. Be warned, it’s a 21MB Jpeg image that will require you to download it.