So I almost froze my fingers and toes off, but I finally managed to get a half-decent sunset shot of Tower Bridge, after many attempts that were foiled by clouds rolling over.

Beautiful sunset for about 2 minutes this evening as the sun poked
through the clouds

Not the classic sunset sky that I was hoping for, but the blue was quite pleasing.

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Whilst driving back to London from Hereford a few days ago, I saw the most amazing sunset, with a range of colours from dark blue, through purple, red, orange to yellow. Just a shame that I had to enjoy it from the M5, rather than from a nice hilltop somewhere. Being a clear, bright and cold day today, I was hoping for something similar, but was somewhat disappointed. However, I had never taken in the view over the Thames from Richmond Hill before, so I wasn’t completely dissatisfied with my excursion this evening.

I took this last year, but was never really happy with the processing. I’ve revisited it again as I haven’t been out taking shots recently and I felt like posting a photo. This is an HDR image from six shots; three exposures were used for the sky and then a further three for the foreground once the lights of the buildings had turned on.

My first post for a while – apologies to those who had been following my daily updates. I managed to post a new photo to this blog every day for the first three months of the year, but lately I just haven’t had the time.

Anyway, I have just returned from a few days in Paris, which was lovely. Here is an often-photographed view, but this is an image that I am really proud of.

I’m a sucker for a good sunset and I love the clouds formations on this one. This one was taken ages ago, but I just rediscovered the file on my computer. The shot was taken with my old Ixus and I’m impressed how well it coped metering the scene.