tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55577578197824631182012-02-29T02:12:00.666-08:00The (ir)regularly updated companion site to pelicanImages.comLee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.comBlogger1291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-45037721289269231972012-02-28T13:13:00.001-08:002012-02-28T13:25:55.742-08:00

As well as getting through a good few rolls of film back in January with Raphaella, we also shot a set of digital images. With time to spare after my final film set-up, the inologist, Raphaella and I had a quick think and pulled together one last shoot for the day.   A load of black fabric and two gridded lights, (balanced in power but one through a strip and the other through a soft box) gave a

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Recently a certain iNologist asked if I wanted to join him in a studio model shoot. I've not worked with a model in a studio setting for a long time, but I did have a few ideas that I'd been thinking I'd like to try out. So, after a quick diary check, a date was set and a model booked. I didn't get much as planning/per-viz work done as i'd hoped, but that wasn't a big problem as Gordon already

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A while back I posted the first phase of some time-lapse work that myself and a colleague had concocted and developed. This work was well received and lead my co-collaborator (Lianne Christie) and I to experiment, develop and explore further a more in-depth project on how material behaviour could be captured, studied and, potentially, influence digital interactions and character. As you can

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I've managed to talk myself out of buying a(nother) camera! Instead I've added options to one that I bought a while back but don't use nearly enough... As enjoyable as it is shooting with my old Pentax 6x7 medium format, it is very under used. But I finally figured out that it's possible to run 35mm film through it instead of the usual 120 format. Why would I want to do this? That other camera I

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A collaborative project developed by Angeline Moura and myself for xfxthemag.com Our (self-written)brief was "to capture urban movement, light, shape and femininity" that matched the pacing of a soundtrack composed by ObliqueSound The shoot was done over a few hours on the streets of Soho and Oxford Circus, London as a large selection of stills. Initially we were tried getting movement and

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Recently, I stumbled upon some amazing work by German photographer Volker Steger. In particular, the beautiful electron microscopy work. And I found myself inspired. But with no high powered microscope to hand I had to think of something else... something like a 50mm f2.5 macro and it's corresponding Life Size Converter in my bag. A couple of test shots confirmed that I was, for some reason

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There's something quite forlorn about the soft porn litter in Las Vegas. I decided to shoot them as I found them on a walk down the strip and Use them to test a potential phone -> iPad2 workflow... These were all shot on a Nokia N8, edited on an iPad2 and shared via photoshop.com. This is not as easy as it sounds. Here's my experience of trying to use a Nokia phone with an iPad: I'll preface

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I was strangely drawn in to a great 2nd hand camera shop in Edinburgh a few weeks ago. So it was of little surprise that, after staring at the displays and wee chat with the owner, I walked out with a new second-hand lens for my Pentax ME Super. The ME Super was my first 'proper' camera (Christmas 1989 if I remember correctly) and it periodically gets a new lease of life as I re-discover it and

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Following the positive response to my previous post on the B&W images of Heather, and Heather and I catching up and talking about other shoots we'd done, I dived back into my archives last weekend. And found these: Fuji Provia (E6) processed in C41 chemicals I'd date these to roughly '94(ish) but other than that all I know is that is was a summer day in The Meadows in Edinburgh. And, I was right

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One final image from the La Fouly trip. I've wanted to do a shot like this for a while, but have always been put by the weather, cloud cover, technicalities of setting up my SLR to shoot so many consecutive frame, or, the big issue, not finding a good subject in daylight and figuring things out before it gets dark and cold. The big issue above is quickly resolved by staying in a lovely chalet in

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I was going through some old boxes and folders recently and stumbled upon a 10x8" black and yellow box. The smell and feel of opening up a big yellow Kodak box is one thing that digital will never match. Especially when it contains a load of prints that had slipped from memory.These particular prints stood out for immediate scanning (mainly because Heather and I joked about old photos a while

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My fascination with CHDK and timelapse shooting continues... On a recent trip to the Swiss alps I decided to shoot a whole load of timelapse footage to really get to grips with CHDK and interval shooting with the G9. Luckily the weather was in my favour and the views and mountains obliged by doing their big and magestic thing for the camera. Sunrise: La Fouly from pelicanImages on Vimeo. CHDK,

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Following on from my previous timelapse work, which was shot in a controlled, studio environment, I really wanted to be able to shoot timelapse outdoors. Capturing changing light and landscape and bringing it to life is fascinating and an obvious extrapolation of still landscape photography. But, the previous timelapse work had been mains powered and laptop controlled; not ideal if you want to

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-66736533354912984302011-03-24T13:30:00.000-07:002011-03-29T14:18:32.142-07:00

As part of an on-going side project I've been getting more and more involved with using time lapse to capture things the eye would normally never see. I've always been fascinated in timelapse and it's cousin stop-frame animation. From Harryhausen's Jason And The Argonuats, through Morph and the BBC's Private Life of Plants, the ability to mess with time is intriguing, and, when it's done well (ie

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Like a lot of people I've been outside tonight marvelling at the size of the so called "Super moon," or Lunar Perigee to give it it's proper name. It's pretty damn big.I don't shoot the moon that much (maybe four times in total now) but I did have a few shots of a lovely full mon from last year. Just to see exactly how much bigger it is tonight I took two images, shot using the exact same camera

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What is it with blog posts that you always feel obliged to strart with an apology for not writing enough recently!? Anyways, I've not updated this for ages again, 'cause I've been crazy busy. However, I now have a new resolution of writing up blog posts on the train to distract me from my mind numbing commute. First up is a few street shots from a short work trip to Beijing. I only had the

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Working through a selection of personal shots taken over the christmas break and the ones that are really working for me are the panoramas from the Canon G9. Its "Stitch Assist" mode is pretty damn good for (almost) getting everything lined up. The sequences of images are then good to go in CS3's Photomerge function too. At 13200x5100 pixels I can't really complain about resolution either. It

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  I happened to look out the window and caught a glimpse of a huge ring in the sky. My first thoughts: 1-Moonbow! 2-Get camera 3-Get Tripod It turns out it's not actually a "moonbow" it has the slightly less catchy title of a 22° halo. The halo is caused by sunlight being refracted by the thin clouds. With a lunar halo, the sunlight is first reflected off the moon. Thin clouds, very high in

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I recently had the pleasure of shooting the wedding of Laura and Joe. They were married in Cannon Hall, South Yorkshire. There was much talk of impending rain and everyone was well prepared with wellingtons in advance. Not that anyone needed them though, the rain stayed away, the location was lovely, and the people made for a great days' shooting. Previously I've shot weddings on my own but,

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I was in the french alps recently to ride the Megavalanche downhill mountain bike race and to shoot some mtb work based around the location, event and riders. Most of that work is making it's way on to slikimages.com in shoot-based instalments. However it wasn't all bikes and due to an iunjury I found myself with a few days in Chamonix on my hands where I wasn't able to ride. The weather for

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I shot my first English wedding a few weeks ago. There was none of the usual kilts and ceilidh but just as much red wine and smiles (and hangovers, but that's another story ;o) I was there in a semi-official capacity along with other friends from our local photography gang. Fortunately Miko and Nick are both accomplished photographers (MMY Photography) and were equally relaxed in front of the

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While we were in Cornwall to visit The Eden Project at the weekend (previous post) we stayed in the fishing village of Mevagissey. It's a nice little town (apparently I've been there before on a family holiday as a child, but I don't remember anything other than the name!) with an abundance of chippy's and eateries as well a very cool old harbour. The sun was out for our trip and I managed a few

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We were in Cornwall recently for a bit of a birthday weekend, part of the plan was a visit to The Eden Project. It's stunning, the architecture is spectacular, the plants are beautiful and, inside the bio-domes, it actually feels like you're in the jungle. The Core roof reflected in a window panel The beautiful "Seed" sculpture and random running child Rain forest vegetation meets

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The first "proper" camera I owned was a Pentax ME Super. It was 2nd-hand when I got it and that was around 21 years ago now (and yes, that makes me feel old) so it's been around for a while. Other bodies have come and gone but I've always held on to the ME Super and at's probably worth more in sentimental value than any thing else these days. But then again I'm not likely to sell it anytime soon.

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"I need you to shoot it as it's thrown out of the window.""What window?""That one at the top. On the right.""And it'll land on the concrete there then?""Hopefuly...""Okaaay."And so began one of the stranger shoots I've been involved with for a while.My friend Melanie is an author, she's working on a new novel, the plot of which requires that a cello is dropped, from height, to its demise.Melanie

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First Dive, originally uploaded by schpleep.I'd never been diving. Not that I didn't want to, I did, it was more the worry that I might like it more than I thought I would. However, when the opportunity arose to go to Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt to shoot a resort, travel and tourism trip, I was excited to see that diving was on the itinerary. The diving session was put off and delayed by the

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As I said in a previous post, it's been a busy few weeks. This change in particular is something that I'm very excited about:Recent discussions, and some time well spent, has seen me teaming up with tobinators.com to combine our sport coverage in one, sports specific blog and image library:slikImages.comA serious combination of Wordpress and Photoshelter that will allow us, and picture editors,

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The Constant Gardener, originally uploaded by schpleep.Yesterday a group of friends and photographers decided to get together to shoot some portraits and figure out some lighting set-ups; generally take the time to figure things out that are outside the normal "comfort zone" when setting up a shot.The initial idea here was to use the slightly surreal greenhouse for a quirky portrait

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-79109497354133122282009-12-08T13:04:00.000-08:002009-12-08T13:45:07.806-08:00

It's been long overdue to be honest but I recently spent the time tearing down and re-constructing pelicanImages.comI'd been thinking about it for a while as the images were in need of an update and I wasn't happy with having such a wide range of galleries up there.So, one day's holiday from the day-job (and much swearing at CSS) later the new pelicanImages.com is up and live.What's changed? I've

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Muddy Hell, Halloween Cyclocross, originally uploaded by schpleep.Last night was certainly full of surprises. I went along to support and shoot the “MUDDY HELL” Rollapaluza Halloween Cyclo Cross event at Herne Hill in London.It was a great night and, as you can see from the pics, somewhat surreal. Normally with "Fancy Dress" events you'd expect things to be laid back and not-so-serious; not this

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Right, here we go: Insert standard "I-know-I-said-I'd-update-regularly-but... " type excuse here.Actually, I've never said that. But it has been a while since I was able to sit down and get a few things up here. Things've been busy, in no particular order there was a night shoot in Guildford, some light painting at 1am and a full blown wedding shoot in Edinburgh.The night in Guildford was spent

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-77052793351197241322009-10-14T13:56:00.001-07:002009-10-14T13:56:46.628-07:00

Inner Glow, originally uploaded by schpleep.I was looking at my flickr Stats recently and noticed that this image in particular getting regular, daily hits. Being the curious type I investigated a little further and it turns out it is all because I added "amputee" as a tag when I uploaded. Of all the words that you'd expect to be searched for regularly on flickr I never figured that to beone of

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Last week, I finally made to a Birds of Prey Photography Day at The Hawk Conservancy Trust in Andover. I say finally because this was a birthday present back in January that was originally booked for July and then postponed due to bad weather.I had no idea what I was letting myself in for, but I did have a rough idea of what I wanted: flights shots (obviously!), close up portraits and some

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Well, for what was an incredibly lazy weekend physically, I've certainely taken a fair few shots by way of re-dressing the balance.Saturday was spent in the company of a bunch of Guildford's parkour/free-running fraternity. So a huge thanks to everyone involved for pulling that together. In particular, thanks to the guys for keeping on pulling out the same, precise moves each time to allow me to

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Been a bit manic recently and this place has consequently suffered because of that.But I've now got a bit of time to write up some of what I got up to over the last wee while. This weekend was a busy one (trips back to Scotland are rarely anything else, and with an added wedding, this one was no exception) However I did figure out and test a strobe thing that's been on my mind since Mark reminded

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It was time for the Guildford centre criterium racing again last Wednesday.I'd missed it last year so was keen to go and shoot it again this year.The short course is very good as the field spreads out fairly well and quickly meaning there's always someone coming at you.However, you know those nights when it's just not working right? I had one of them: The sky was flat and white, there was

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-17503877605646683882009-06-25T14:51:00.001-07:002009-06-25T15:34:48.588-07:00

Infrared images have been intriguing me for a while, I like the surreal sky and white hues of the vegetation, it's definitely "a look" but it's a look that I quite like and when done well the images can be beautiful. It's not something you can easily dive in to though, the need for a WrattenIR filter and the subsequent long exposure times had put me off in the past.However, I recently acquired a

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-58149084927879682262009-06-16T12:18:00.001-07:002009-06-16T13:18:58.148-07:00

Last bank holiday weekend I got back in touch with the guys that I'd met at the Photogravity Event last time I was in Scotland and arranged another day's shooting at Innerleithen.I met up with Alex and Valentin and decided to try shooting mainly on The Matador run again. This meant that we knew where would work (and I knew what I wanted to correct/improve from the last time) and roughly how long

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-34434425403744644592009-06-13T15:01:00.000-07:002009-06-14T14:32:48.712-07:00

I was in LA recently and managed to take a quick detour to Voila! on the way to the airport. As I mentioned in a previous post Voila! are displaying and selling a selection of my Fine Art Images.I'd never seen the prints framed and hanging so I was obviously keen to stop by and check them out. The above 48" wide, aluminium framed print in particular looks amazing but all the images that are

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Runner Up: People In The Landscape.Tourists with umbrellas on the steps at the City Gates in Xian, China. The weather grey, the light was flat, the rain was insistent, and there are surprisingly few red umbrellas in Xian. This is especially true when you need one to walk into a shot that you've seen since you arrived at the location. There was a definite sense of satisfaction and "

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It's been a busy few weeks and I've now got a digital mountain of images to get through and processed. Not that I'm complaining mind you, as I'm finding some shots in there that I'm more than happy with.I'm working through the pile from the latest to the oldest as this weekend's racing in Fort William is the biggest pile and I want to get them out there at least at the same time as everyone else

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-78482635830443991422009-05-09T09:58:00.001-07:002009-05-09T15:01:16.064-07:00

Please Buy Some Love, originally uploaded by schpleep.Finally got through post-processing and uploading my shots from a recent work trip to Beijing. The majority of the time I could spend out and about was limited to after work walks from around the hotel. Still this presented a huge array of candid opportunities. Especially away from the bright, modern main streets.I made a last minute descision

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I worked from home on Friday and during a break in the garden I noticed that some frogs have moved in to our tiny pond.Having more time today, I made a point of keeping an eye on the pond in the morning and evening as the light gets low enough to give some nice lighting.There seems to be 5 frogs sharing the old bath (like I said, it's a _small_ pond!) at the moment. Even after only a day or so

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-43563083731950884222009-04-30T12:50:00.000-07:002009-04-30T13:10:23.290-07:00

So I made it to The New York Times Style Magazine.My "Owl at London Zoo" image is used in an ad that includes various images and pieces from Voila! and 1stdibs.com in the Men's Fashion Spring 2009 edition.It's nice to see it up there no matter how fleeting it is. It is still The New York Times after all.

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This is the first of the sequences that I've got to comp together from the top of Innerleithen at the Photogravity Event this weekend. Here's the steps required:1: Find a rider who'll clear the road jump2: Set up and frame take-off and landing3: Waaait for it....4: Let rip at 10fps until he hits the landing5: Spend f******g hours photoshopping between spokes and frames!!Next time: calm down the

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A few weeks ago I was contacted by phunkt.com, Keith@phunkt wondered if I'd be interested in shooting at the Photogravity event he was organising at Innerleithen last weekend.The opportunity to shoot decent riders on some of the best courses in the country was an easy call to make. And, I was going to be in Scotland for Easter anyways. (The fact that the sun would be out and it would be warm

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I'm proud to announce that a selection of my work is now showing at the voila! gallery in Los Angeles.At Voila!, we offer Art for the Modern Eye. Unlike other galleries, we do not limit ourselves to a specific era in time or medium of art. We explore, we discover, and we exhibit our treasures. What truly binds our collection is the Love for the exceptional and the exquisite.Limited edition framed

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I decided the night before to head down in to the City with a friend to cover the protests planned to converge on the Bank of England.A long and interesting day ensued!I've not shot this sort of thing before so pretty much made it up as I went along trying to capture characters, and the action and mood of the event.Short movie of all the shots (2 short bursts) I got of this guy. He was in, done

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-77182071852067174952009-03-31T14:57:00.001-07:002009-03-31T15:36:39.484-07:00

I was up at Porridgepot Hill at the weekend to once again take advantage of the "captive" subjects of the Gorrick Saddle Skedaddle Spring Series.The staggered start times and tightly looping course made it easy to try out a bunch of different things through the day. The above image was a shot I wanted as soon as I saw the course winding through the trees. I don't think it says "racing" but it

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Something different from the tale end of a work trip. Candids are something I've not done muchof. Especially as close as this. But this guy just looked so despondant/lethargic and seemed to sum up how everyone feels in that llimbo time between flights that I had to try and get a few shots.I'm not even sure he was aware of me taking a few shots. I managed to "cover up" what I was doing by

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For the first time in a long time I went out yesterday with a mission to shoot one particular image.I'd been over at Winkworth Arboretum a few weeks ago and had seen this partially submerged tree. I liked the contrast of the fractal/skeletal limbs in the water but, I was traveling light with no tripod or camera bag to speak of. So I took a quick record shot to remind me to get back over there

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Last year I enter some images in the Digital Photographer of the Year Awards 2008.Apart from a request for more info on one of them "to help with the judging process" I'd heard nothing more since sometime in January.I'd put it down as experience and was happy that I had at least made an effort and entered the competition.So imagine my surprise when I was looking through the winning images tonight

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Testing what you might ask!I wanted to test an umbrella/pocket wizard/optical slave set-up and needed a subject. I also needed a shave.This was the impetus for much too-ing and fro-ing, and some final Photoshop comping to bring all the shots into this one.Strobist info: 580ex into umbrella to camera top left (~30degrees), white reflector to head left and an old pentax af330 optically slaved for

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Just got back from a stunning week's boarding in Chamonix.Once again the snow was deep, the mountains were spectaular and the riding was simply amazing.I only took the G9 instead of the usual bag of kit, however I still struggled to stop and shoot that many images as the weather and conditions were so good.Although a-typical of the weather last week, this is one of my favourite images: I was

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Test shot from the weekend. I spent a therapeutic 6hrs in the woods shooting other people slogging their guts out around the 2nd of this years Gorrick/Saddle Skedaddle Spring Series races.Originally I was out to test my pocket wizards on the "captive audience" that a race course provides. However, the gremlins were out and having a go at my main flash. So I had to resort Canon's Master/Slave IR

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I've been testing /playing with the time-lapse video settings on the G9 recently. Today's test was from Waterloo to the office (A 20 minute walk compressed down to 46seconds)Why's it black and white? Because that's normally how I feel on the way to work in the morning ;o)I think it's a bit too quick (shot at 1frame/2secs) and will probably do another test at the slower 1frame/1sec setting for

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Michelin, originally uploaded by schpleep.And so to Singapore. I managed to get to Siggraph Asia in Singapore at the end of last year. WhileI was there I also managed to get some time in and around downtown Singapore for a few shots.

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No Weather For Ducks, originally uploaded by schpleep.As a well timed break from me posting and working on shots from the South West US and deserts and heat, it dumped it down with snow in the South East of England these last few days.As there's no way the trains run in weather like this I spent what would've been wasted commute time in the park taking photos and generally noticing how snow seems

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Desert Details (@f8), originally uploaded by schpleep.So, the first pass of the US photos is complete. There's stil some stitching and compositingthat I can do with a bunch of them but for now it's time to move on and continue to try and catch up with the backlog.I'm finishing with a question though: Click throught the image to get to flickr and decide mow much bokeh is too much.

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Careful What You Look For... Originally uploaded by schpleep.Still working my way through the US work. This is probably my favourite shot so far. Mainly because it comes close to summing up just how surreal the desert can be.A strangely beautiful place where I seemed to spend more time than anyone else that pulled into the parking area, jumped out grabbed a few snaps, jumped back in and carried

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The Terminator Originally uploaded by schpleep.Watching the shadow of dawn roll across the floor of Death Valley.Stunning.More than worth the struggle of getting out of bed so early.

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Three Plus OneOriginally uploaded by schpleep. Finally getting started on processing the US images. And wishing I'd shot more grey cards as white balance in the desert is proving a little tricky. Next time...There is something nice about having had to wait for so long to get to these (Christmas, travel, work etc) It's nice to see them again with "fresh eyes" and it makes the ruthless editing

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New Years DayOriginally uploaded by schpleep. I'm finally managing to get back on top of the stack of images that I need to process.The last 2 months have seen me in LA, Vegas, Singapore, Scotland and The Alps; the first three being work related. All in all I'm trawling through a few thousand images at the moment. I'm also trying to be as ruthless as possible with my editing/culling (New Years

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Depth (of Colour)Originally uploaded by schpleep. One of the first test shots with the new body.Stunning camera to use so far. Clearly this isn't pushing the 45point autofocus or 10fps frame rate that but the image quality and use-ability alone are a huge step up from the 20D.I like!

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...............eeep! Look what's in my bag! Originally uploaded by schpleep.Done it! Finally made the leap. After at least a year of procrastinating and "yes-no-maybe-but-what-if..." I've decided, and bought one. Quite exciting really.No excuses now is there? ;-)

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Freeze London 2008 - Big Air Final Originally uploaded by schpleep.It's high time I posted on here more regularly. So I'll start as I hope to go on with a shot from Saturday's Freeze event in London.I was only going to take a few snaps but ended up shooting pretty much all of the finals.Some crazy/stunning riding and took me back to when I used to ride and shoot weekly at Hillend. Happy days ;o)

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TransWales08-day7+1 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Sun 24:08:2008 09:27 Finished. A gruelling 85k yesterday but it didn't rain and the sun came out for a while. The first section up to lunch had some of the best climbs and descents of the week by far. This included crossing the same river 14 times and the now obligatory huge puddles.The 7hour cut off time for the 80k route wasn't as generous as

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TransWales08-day6 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Fri 22:08:2008 06:27 Today started well, it wasn't raining.But, if yesterday was hard it was nothing compared to today!This morning's special stage was a figure-of-eight loop around Nant-y-Aran (sp?) It was all uphill. Technically this is impossible because we started and finished at the same place. Technicalities don't come into it it when it

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TransWales08-day5 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Thu 21:08:2008 14:53 Shattered today. Getting up and going this morning was tough; it was tipping it down, cold and windy. Also, everyone felt the same and the low morale was infectious (a bit like the stomach bug that seems to an going around)However, there was a time trial this morning. That soon perked everyone up!It was a fantastic course. 10k

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TransWales08-day4 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Wed 20:08:2008 12:32 78k today. And very nice it was too. A fair bit of road got to us lunch quite quickly so there was no pressure to hammer it for the remaining distance. Some nice technical climbing and some fast (and loose) descents. This, mixed with a few more swollen river crossings gave us, I think, some of the best riding so far.And there

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TransWales08-day3 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Tue 19:08:2008 10:44 Yup, it was wet again. Not so much from above this time though, every where is sodden from all the rain. Axle deep sodden in places.For some reason there was a short cut option towards the end of today's route, not sure why as the last 15k were the most fun of the day (So, for the record, Gav, Richie, the RAF boys and myself

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TransWales08-day2 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Mon 18:08:2008 20:27 Absolutely soaked. All day. The forecast of "heavy showers" was spot on, if heavy showers last for 5 hours at a time!Yesterday was wet but today's rain was proper grim.Last night's special stage was good fun: 3k up and 4.5k back down. In the dark with rain.Today's special stage was flatter, and edited due to the weather. It

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TransWales08-day1 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Sun 17:08:2008 13:47 Day1 ride1. About 71km with 1500m of climbing. Not a bad start to the week and the pain (I meant rain but predictive text obviously knows what I was really thinking ;-) even held off for most of it. (it's pissing down now though, just after I managed to dry the tent too) And, all the guys that I met and rode with last year are

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TransWales 08: day0 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Sat 16:08:2008 20:31 So it begins... Riders briefing for tomorrow's 9am start.And, somehow,it's November outside. It's cold and wet and it's been chucking it down since the border. Could someone have quiet word with Wales about seasons and sunshine pleas.It's going to be a moist week otherwise...

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Rain's Comin' Originally uploaded by schpleep.Rider: SonTrail: Megavalanche Cup Course, Oz en Oisans Did the Mega qualifier today. Fantastic!Racing head to head down singletrack switchbacks in the trees is pretty hard to beat.Finished of the day with a road climb up out of Alpe d' Huez to watch the sun set behind foreboding clouds, before riding the Megavalanche Cup course back down in to Oz.Only

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Stop for the view Originally uploaded by schpleep.Still sunny, still in the alps!A random gathering of riders stop to admire the view during a practice run of the Mega qualifier course.Unfortunately I've not taken any photos of the trickier parts of the courses yet. This is probably because I've been concentrating on staying alive for most of it.Speaking of staying alive; body armour is a good

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Mega 2008: pt1 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Bloody hell!Without a doubt this is some of the best and hardest riding I've ever done. And that's only talking about the qualifier course!The riding around Alpe d'Huez is stunning, and that's only the downhill courses that we've ridden so far.The photo is from the top of the Mega course, at 3800m. It's pretty much all wet soft snow for the next

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My photography site is up and running at pelicanImages.comGo on... have a look, you might even like them :o)

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Well that took a little longer than planned but I've finally got this year's Fort William World Cup photos up on Flickr. It's hard to believe that they're actually in Scotland considering how much sun there is!Another humbling weekend watching the best riders in the world show how it's done.Photo-wise this year's set is definitely better than last years (Last years set on Flickr here) and I'm

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As The Crow Flies Originally uploaded by schpleep.Taking the direct route back from Oulu to Helsinki ...and getting disapproving looks for having a phone switched on on a plane. (Offline mode is a handy option for killing time though)

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Ethereal PromisesOriginally uploaded by schpleep. Getting there... I'm gradually getting through the work from China. As I work through it I'm realising how bad the weather/light was, and, how happy I am with some of the results :o)Hua Shan in particular is a stunningly beautiful area and even with the low cloud and flat light it is still amazingly photogenic. I still wish I'd seen the sunrise

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Following on from the previous post I'm now back in home and working through photos from last weekends trip.It rained. A lot. Xian, the little that we saw of it, is very different to Beijing. For a start it smells of coal fires (probably from the high use of coal fired power stations in China and the geographical layout of Shaanxi region. Mountains surrounding the Xian area do a good job of

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I've spent the week working in Beijing but, due to jet-lag and being at work, I've not seen much more than I managed the last couple of times. However, that should all change tonight when we catch a sleeper train down to Xian, much is planned but we see ho wit all plays out. The main aim is to to head to Hua Shan though and try to catch sun-rise and sun-set from the top.There will also be the

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Finally, my first website in about 10yrs is up and active.pelicanImages.com my small photography portfolio site.Things've moved on from the last time I did this stuff. Whatever happened to simple tables and copy/pasting other peoples' mouseOver scripts? ;o)Anyways, go have a look and I hope you like it.

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On the back of some recent discussions about this image, I've had a dig around on my phone and found the movie I made of it was done (and yes, that is my foot propping up the camera at the beginning): These photos also give a little more info about the set-up:The lighting:And the Lego motion blur rig:

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Slowly but surely pelicanimages.com is coming together.Aside from me having to learn Dreamweaver on the fly, I've also got a huge (digital) pile of images to sort through. And, as is usually the case, if you leave images long enough, you'll find something that needs editing when you re-visit them...Still, it looks a hell of a lot better than flickr ;o)

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Delivery for Mr Lecter Originally uploaded by schpleep.The many faces of Resusci Anne!

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LA: A different pace Originally uploaded by schpleep.LA's a funny place, and it'd be a nightmare to navigate the roads, places and people without local knowledge (and a handy GPS)I'm lucky enough to visit people who'll indulge my needs for snowboarding, food and photos. All in a long weekend!Thanks folks, see you soon.

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Designed In California......used in Scotland!I wonder if this was a use-case scenario ;o)

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-41951936371709605742008-01-27T11:42:00.001-08:002008-01-27T11:42:47.009-08:00

Corkscrew Originally uploaded by schpleep.Just put up a few pics of yesterday's riding in Swinley Forest.Much roots, much singletrack, not enough hills though. That's the South East for you though eh? ;o)

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Spotted in Soho at lunchtime.Best caption/comment wins a prize ;o)

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-38916190254042362102008-01-14T13:51:00.001-08:002008-01-14T13:55:14.800-08:00

GB Olympic Kayak medal hope, (and barman extraordinaire ;o) Paul Wycherley managed to get himself a tricked out Trailstar from DMRWe rolled it into the middle of a frosty field last month for a few promo shots and this one made it to the DMR website Next time around I might even get a few shots of him riding the damn thing ;o)Trailstar PublicityOriginally uploaded by schpleep.

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woo-hoo!! Originally uploaded by schpleep.I won a prize!Thanks to SRAM for my lovely new brakes and thanks to the guys at Singletrack for picking my shot.Smug? Me? Yup!

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More N95 action Originally uploaded by schpleep.Sun 04:11:2007 10:21 More riding with the (pre-focused) N95. Rider: Phil(?)

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Downhill to Thursley Originally uploaded by schpleep.Sun 04:11:2007 10:20 Greg helping to show that, with patience, it is possible to take action shots with an N95

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Cycling Into The Light Originally uploaded by schpleep.Sun 04:11:2007 10:00 Autumn mist and a low sun make for near perfect conditions on our way to The Devils Punchbowl.

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A Surreal Day (siggraph-1) Originally uploaded by schpleep.After travelling for 18hrs it was a little surreal to end the day watching fireworks from the flightdeck of USS Midway!

Lee Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844310386669960163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557757819782463118.post-38234886408014991042007-06-25T13:56:00.000-07:002007-06-25T14:07:32.725-07:00

I've finally got back online at home.Now I have to remember how this posting interface works... ;)Right, figured the picture posting for a start.

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I was 17th in the Male Solo Category!I'm well chuffed with that. A top 20 finish for my first time in this type of event goes a long way to make up for how crap my cold is making me feel today.I also realised that I didn't post anything for day6 (no vodafone reception in Glentress), so here's the quick summary:The link stage stage was easily the worst one of the week with loads of hike-a-bike

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Trans Scotland day7 Originally uploaded by schpleep.Probably... After 7 days of back to back riding with the final stage including climbs at Glentress and Innerleithen, _this_ probably was the best beer in the world.The last stage was a big one but it was all rideable, and as I've ridden GT and Innerleithen loads I knew what was coming. And, the descent from The Three Brethren into Selkirk is

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