Liverpool Museum 28. 6. 2012

We had planned an educational trip out to Liverpool's newest museum, based near to The Albert Dock and The Liver Buildings. On this trip I only took my basic camera with me for convenience, thinking most of my shots would be inside the museum.

I really like this image but personally I feel that the gloomy sky lets it down.

This picture above gives all the information about following photos of embroidery and it was interesting to put faces to such talented pieces of work.

Each separate image is one person's hard work and together they are stunning.

This is the second of three separate bodies of work that went towards Liverpool's Capital of Culture display.

You have to see these pieces of work in reality to appreciate how much time and effort has been put into it.

This is a piece of artwork that I captured in three separate images and then framed as one.

The layout of the staircase reminded me of a similar  image of a staircase in the Arc de Triomphe.

The information above was part of a handheld, listen to documentary about how the painting was made. This is quite impressive when see with the naked eye and was one of the highlights of my visit. 

This image above, I took in 5 sections and then pieced together and framed to finish off. I wish I had known about PhotoStitch!

This piece of artwork was visually amazing! It is a statue of Mary Bamber who was an ardent supporter of Votes for Women.  It is a fantastic example of mosaic which was made by Carrie Reichardt and Nick Reynolds.

This image is only a section of a War Memorial designed by the sculptor Trevor Wheeler.

                                              The view from the museum window

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/things-to-see/

I liked this statue because it looks so life like and represents the past working life of the dock.

A great modern twist on the old building

The triangle effect, me taking a photo of them taking a photo!

I wanted to use the top of the anchor to frame the iconic building, I felt it made a good effect.

The repetitiveness took my eye but as an overall image it didn't seem to work

http://www.cycle-routes.org/cycle-gateshead/general/sustrans.html

I can never resist a visit to the walker Gallery to see Puck and his friends!

I was drawn to this painting of Elijah in the Wilderness because of the elegant angel's wings.

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/

These railings appealed to me as an image as I had never seen them displayed in this double-ended way before.

A face in the environment!

The last few images are taken in Lime St train station, all though I had been to Liverpool so many times before, I hadn't seen inside this station and boy oh boy had I been missing a great photo opportunity. I found many images that I wanted to capture here.

http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/liverpoollimestreets/

These were taken on the train journey home.

Experiments with filters June 29.6.2012

The collage above are all images taken by Alfred Stieglitz

I hadn't worked with filters before so it was a nice change to take this opportunity to see what results I would get with different colours.  The images of Stieglitz I used as a guideline for me to work towards.  I didn't really want to replicate them, but create a version of my own.  I used my camera's built-in filters first, funnily enough I hadn't realized that my camera had such facilities on it.  I started off using green and went through the different colour choices, but not all were selected for this blog. 

My friend, Sue who had come with me on this day out had brought along with her some external filters which luckily enough also fitted my camera - blue, red and sun set.

Personally, I feel that the outcome of the blue filter shown on these images worked the best.  Maybe due to blue being a colour that we're used to seeing in the sky made them more pleasing.

Some of the images below vary from being a very dark black to almost a grey colour.  I'm torn which I prefer, personally I think my preference varies from image to image.  One or two even look like images of Earth from space which gives another outlook on the pictures. These are taken using the red filter.  

This image is enhanced by the line of the airplane emissions.  

The images that have the sepia look to them I don't think worked very well.  They seem too flat and lifeless.

I can't remember what filter I used for this image above, but its got an interesting twist to it. 

The filter I used on the images below I feel made the wheat have more depth to them and look more 3D

Again the sepia effect didn't seem to work on the wheat either.

My conclusion

I felt a little out of my depth working with the filters.  Personally, I will work with filters again if I think it results in the type of image that I want at that time.