Howard Stredwick

Climbing the Monument

I’m mucking around with the “desperate for comments” groups on Flickr. You know, like 1-2-3 and Hit Miss or Maybe. I want comments too, damit.
So I was chuffed to bits when I gotta stack on Climbing the Monument.
So many, in fact, I thought I would splurge it across my homepage for […]

Tornado GR4s over East London
EOS 10D + 70-300mm USM IS. 1/1000 F9.5 280mm.

Trooping the Colour shinanegins.
The flightpath was straight over my flat in east London. I saw the Spitfires escorting a Lancaster through my balcony doors, but my camera wasn’t to hand, and besides it had the 50mm stuck to its face.Thinking there […]

Most viewed photo on flickr was not shot with a camera. Bah.

Oh fudge it’s 2006.

Featuring a solitary turban wearing stranger and harsh midday light, this over saturated shot looks more like Lakshadweep than London.

Further proof that in good enough light anything can look good.

Water, rocks… gravity. It’s another waterfall picture. It’s not like the world, let alone my website, has enough already.

My photos worth seeing…

A very big communications tower looks like a cheeky robot in this colour transparency scan.

Canary Wharf, shot from the west, glows gold in evening light.

What it says on the tin - night time shot of the Moulin Rouge, Paris, France.

Single shot of the London Eye taken from a colour transparency.

Look at those little guitars fly.

Colour transparency scan that could have been shot on another planet…

Single colour negative scan from my paraglide in Switzerland 2005.

The flags in the Jazzworld field at the 2004 Glastonbury festival went down a treat. So for 2005 they went flag mad. A couple of pics to give you the idea.

Wacky cow sculpture at the 2005 Glastonbury festival

Big fat blue skies and warm wood tones on this image abstracted from a wood sculpture at Glastonbury 2005.

I confess - more slightly Photoshoped Swiss waterfall shenanigans. But this fella has been sharpened slightly. Unlike one and two, there was no need to darken the image due to over-exposure; clouds had gathered darkening the scene

Single colour shot of a largish waterfall, Switzerland.

Single colour shot of a small waterfall, Switzerland.

Scanned colour snap: the spires of Gauidi’s unfinished bonkers cathedral thing. With cranes.

Single black and white shot of a dock loader crane, Isle of Dogs, London.

Single scanned portrait image

Single scanned image of the Olympic stadium, Barcelona.

End of season pic from Chamonix, France.

Single colour snap of the union jack.

I went to NY. And it was covered in snow. And it felt just like London, except taller.

Single colour shot of an office block bathed in midday sun, Covent Garden.

Single abstract colour image.