N Spiers Photography

ITS A MONSTER!!! well not exactly.

Neil — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:36:51 +0000

Quick lunch break and headed for my daily jaunt to the Lea Marsh area near all the Car Garages around Preston Docklands way. Mate Eric from work tagged along to show him the Whitethroat that I was sort of teasing by mimicking its call hahahaha. Anyway walked quite far saw quite a bit and then out of the corner of my eye I saw the mother of all Caterpillars!!!! Black, Orange, bristling with hairs… looked like something from the movie … I cant dam well remember the name AARRGGHHH!!!

Anyway fired off a few shots as suddenly got a strange interest in Moths and Butterflies (going be harder ID’ing instead of birds!!!!) and headed back to work to find out what the hell it was. After only 10 minutes there it was staring me in the face.. a Drinker Moth Caterpillar, quite common alledgly but first time I’ve seen one, 3 inches in length and weird looking!!!

Tools of the trade

Neil — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:39:09 +0000

Taken at Barton Grange Garden Centre. Proves that taking your camera with you EVERYWHERE works. There was a falconry display on, as much as I did not agree with the birds being placed on a stand an shown off I just had to get a photo of one of my favourite birds… the Barn Owl.

As much as I appreciated everyone shoving a camera in the poor birds face I decided to go for a different angle and take a shot of one of the birds tools of the trade… its talons. On converting to black and white I got an image that I am very proud of.

A583 Blackpool – Preston Sunrise

Neil — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:38:00 +0000

Taken on a very foggy trip to work early in the morning, was worth the near pile up caused!!!

Liz @ Skipool Creek

Neil — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:24:50 +0000

Taken on a beautiful clear day at Skipool Creek over Wyre. Finally got Liz to pose for some shots!!!

Bright Foggy Morn

Neil — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:59:57 +0000

Taken at Lawson Road on 02/03/2010

Freezing Fog Stanley Park

Neil — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:23:00 +0000

Freezing Fog Stanley Park

Neil — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:21:10 +0000

Entrance to Stanley Park, Blackpool

Freezing Fog Stanley Park

Neil — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:16:55 +0000

Band stand at Stanley Park, Blackpool

Freezing fog and bloody cold!!!

Neil — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:11:35 +0000

Decided on Friday that I WOULD get out this weekend and find a love for my photography again. Over the past few weeks I have been seriously over critical and also very uninspired with my photography, so after waking up this morning with a seriously bad hangover (heavy night), I looked out of the window to find that it was unbelievable foggy and for some grim reason the first thing that came to mind was….. GRAVEYARD. Yes, I thought that freezing fog would make for some interesting images, this is partly true as you can see below.

Once again I forgot about shooting into the sun so the majority of my shots of lines and lines of grave stones turned out really bad (must beat self until I remember this lesson!!!). After a few more shots of grave stones I came across a flock of Redwings skitting around in the cemetary, if you do not know what one is well… its a migratory bird that spends its Winter in the UK, anyhow the flock was quite far away and not a good enough shot to add am afraid to say.

Decided that I would head over to Stanley Park and check out the scenery in the fog and I was not disappointed, the light and the imagery was amazing. As soon as I walked into the entrance of the park I fired off a few shots and after a bit of cropping this is what I got.

This was starting to make my day as I could see images all around me, therefore fired off shot after shot after shot. The ones I liked the most you can see from the front page of my site, or select the Landscape section from Browse a Category.

Please let me know what you think as this was a great day for me, plus it made me think alot more about my photography.

Low Light Self Portrait

Neil — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:02:50 +0000

Low Light Self Portrait 14/12/2009