I was in Barcelona a few weeks back, this market, just off the Ramblas was one of my highlights. There was all sorts of fresh and brightly coloured produce, from fish to cheeses, but the stalls that caught my eye photographically were the fruit stands which all seemed to do a sideline in fruit juices.
Of course, I had to make sure that the juices tasted as good as they looked and can confirm that the coconut and mango certainly was!
For a while one of my photography goals has been to get accepted to the Alamy stock agency, I particularly wanted to get accepted as they are a proper agency, rather than microstock and they are pretty strict about who gets in, with your images having to pass a stringent QC test.
To view my images click on the links below:
Stock photography by Lewis Craik at Alamy
My favourite image of the four from my initial upload was this image of Kinnoull Tower near Perth, Scotland:
Kinnoull tower and the river tay, looking over towards Dundee
Browsing around Flickr I came across quite a few light trail images, which reminded me of a few images I took at Silverstone, when Ma5da Racing were supporting the Silverstone 500 in 2009, this one is my favourite.
When I’m visiting family in Perth, Scotland I usually take a trip over to the harbour town of Arbroath in Angus, mainly to get Arbroath Smokies (a very tasty local speciality of smoked haddock) but also because its really photogenic, it’s a small harbour surrounded by brightly coloured buildings, there are sea defences being battered by the waves and the subject of this shot – the signal tower museum, although this image is black and white the building is white with red details, which always seems to go down well in photographic competitions.
For more images of the harbour, signal tower and sea defences have a look at my Arbroath album on Flickr.
Every Flickr account seems to have a picture of a random door, so when I spotted this whilst out with my Dad (Bob Craik LRPS) in Rothwell the bright blue door on the orange brickwork really caught my eye. It’s just a shame about the flaking paint…
Something I have been meaning to do for a while is to get a rogues gallery in my office of people that I don’t really see enough, so after collecting some prints (at the same time as a processed roll of Velvia!) from the lab, some frames from Ikea and a few hours cutting/sticking I have the following 4 pictures on my office wall of some people who are important to me.
Simon:
Ali & Webb:
Partho:
And of course, Jen:
This picture was taken on a walk along the canal at Union Wharf in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, with an old friend from school, Dan, who has just bought himself and EVIL camera (EVIL as in Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens, rather than with a plan to take over the world). It was good to take a walk somewhere that I’ve not been since the days when I was still shooting film, although I did also finish off the roll of Velvia that’s been in my film body for a while.
I took the usual boat reflection pictures, but it was this image of the smoking chimney after the sun had gone that was my favourite from the shoot as it’s a bit different to my normal style.
Another quick image from my iPhone. Taken from my hotel room balcony on a business trip to Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gothenburg in the snow - iPhone 4 photo
I was down in London the other day and ventured over to Camden Lock for the first time, I didn’t have a DSLR with me, but took the following photo on my iPhone.
Camden Lock - iPhone 4 photo
I can’t wait to return to explore some more, enjoy the vast range of food they have and do a bit of street photography too!
Wow! The summer has flown by in a blur of Ma5da race cars and the large luxury saloons that I work on during the week! I promise I will try to write a Ma5da Racing season update blog soon, but in the mean time I’ll post a teaser for the next round at Rockingham Speedway on the bank holiday weekend:
In other news I have bought myself a Canon S90, so hopefully I will be able to post a few more images from the various trips that I have planned over the next few months.
