A nightime long exposure photo that I took at the end of last year at Fiddlers Ferry coal fired power station in Merseyside, England showing two of the enormous cooling towers.
Street lights from a nearby town and the artificial illumination of the power station itself have made the underside of the clouds of water vapour glow with light in sharp contrast to the shadowy darkness of the concrete cooling towers.
As with all the power station photos that I've taken over the last two years this image was inspired by the wonderful work of the professional fine art photographer Michael Kenna (see link below)
Like what you see here and are interested in photographic composition?.....the blog section of my website now has a complete set of 5 articles covering my personal approach to the subject: Ian Bramham Photography - Blog
For purchasing high quality archival prints of any of these photos you can send me an email by clicking here or by going to my website Ian Bramham - Fine Art Photography where prices are listed in the gallery sections under each individual photo.
@John Leech: No. I haven't tried printing any of them yet but I'll be getting 4 of the landscape format ones printed on matt paper for that comp we talked about.
Yes, this is the one with a flock of birds flying past one of the stacks: http://ianbramham.aminus3.com/image/2008-12-20.html
@sara: aaaaaaah....he's my favourite (famous) photographer so no surprise if you can see that some of his influence has rubbed off on me as I look at his photos a lot and they've been such a major influence!
NIKON D40
14 second
F/5.6
ISO 200
105 mm (35mm equiv.)