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A lady looking at winter hats for sale at the #ChristmasMarket in #London's #TrafalgarSquare.

Shot with #SonyA7RIV with #Sirui 35mm T2.9 Saturn #AnamorphicLens.

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#London's #TrafalgarSquare, featuring the Norwegian #ChristmasTree.

The City of #Oslo has sent a #Christmas tree to London every year since 1947 as a gift of gratitude to the peoples of London for the support during World War II.

However, this may be the last Norwegian Christmas tree given to London due to concerns over impacts to the environment of shipping a tree every year.

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The #Christmas decorations inside the south hall of #London's #CoventGarden

Shot with #SonyA7RIV with #Sirui 35mm T2.9 1.6x Saturn #AnamorphicLens.

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The #ChristmasTree in #London's #CoventGarden. A crowd is gathered on the piazza to watch a street performer ply their trade.

Shot with #SonyA7RIV with #Sirui 35mm T2.9 1.6x Saturn #AnamorphicLens.

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Look what just arrived today! I'm not a video producer, but I think that this lens would be amazing for those wide sweeping scenes, giving life quite a cinematic look!

Looking forward to having a play and seeing what I come up with, especially with all these Christmas lights in London now that it's December!

Watch this space!!!

#LifeByStills #Photography #Anamorphic #Christmas #London

Wanted to see what a full frame camera could capture of the night sky from a dark park in the middle of a heavily light polluted town. It didn't help that a waxing gibbous moon was in the night sky just to the left of the frame.

Not as impressive as the #MilkyWay shots which I've seen from many of you, like https://mastodon.art/@Billthoo/111355306490219243 from @Billthoo, but I'm impressed to have been able to shoot this from the middle of a town! You can JUST about see it!

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I haven't been in #London for a good few weeks as have been away, but saw tonight that all the #Christmas lights have been put up on #OxfordStreet and #RegentStreet already.

There's something really nice about how London looks getting towards Christmastime. 🎄

Shot with #SonyXperia PRO-I with the #Sirui 1.33x #AnamorphicLens adapter.

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Went out to play with the #Sirui 1.33x #anamorphic adapter for mobile phones earlier today, shooting a sunrise at #HadleighCastle in #Essex.

Initially, I wanted to get an anamorphic lens with neutral-coloured flare for my full frame camera, but seeing this makes me just want to stick with the blue flare which most people associate with anamorphic lenses.

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Well, Ritz-Carlton, eh? Moving up the social ladder with my clients, I see LOL.

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Just saw this in Yahoo News from a week-and-a-bit ago.

It's always quite humbling to see my work help illustrate a story about those whose voices are sometimes unheard, or not fully understood.

Full article here: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/conversion-therapy-uk-government-kicks-151305038.html.

Thank you to everyone who supports me in my work. 🙏 🙇‍♂️

#LifeByStills #EditorialByStills #Photography #Editorial #EditorialPhotography #Photojournalism #TransRights #HumanRights

Just saw this in Yahoo News from a week and a bit ago.

It's always quite humbling to see my work help illustrate a story about those whose voices are sometimes unheard, or not fully understood.

Full article here: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/conversion-therapy-uk-government-kicks-151305038.html.

#LifeByStills #EditorialByStills #Photography #Editorial #EditorialPhotography #Photojournalism #TransRights #HumanRights

I've updated the Greece section of my travel gallery with some shots of my recent trip over to Athens, snapped with the Fujifilm X-T2.

https://lifebystills.co.uk/galleries/travel/#Greece

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A humpback whale diving into the waters of the Eyjafjörður.

Find out more about whale watching in Iceland here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/11/4013.

See more images from Iceland in my travel gallery here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/galleries/travel/#Iceland.

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A humpback whale diving into the waters of the Eyjafjörður.

Find out more about whale watching in Iceland here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/11/4013.

See more images from Iceland in my travel gallery here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/galleries/travel.

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A glorious #sunrise over #London's #HeathrowAirport this morning.

Shot with #SonyXperiaPROI.

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Enjoying the view from #HeathrowAirport T5 Gallery South lounge this morning.

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Into the Blue: The Beauty of Iceland's Melting Glaciers.

I shot this waterfall inside a glacier cave within the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier.

Shot with #LeicaQ3

Read more about the story behind this shot here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/10/4041.

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I've just been working on redesigning my website / portfolio some more, and I think I'm fairly happy with it (for) now.

I've separated the "stories" section from the "blog".

I'll use "stories" to, for example, tell the stories in folklore about the subject of my shot, or just how I went about / where I went to shoot that shot, and the emotions it might evoke.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support. 🙏 🙇‍♂️

https://lifebystills.co.uk

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Jökulsárlón: A Beauty Born of Loss.

Read the story behind this shot here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/10/3991/.

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Jökulsárlón: A Beauty Born of Loss.

Read the story behind this shot here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/10/3991/.

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I was hoping to catch some of the #Orionid meteor shower tonight, but as I was setting up and doing test shots, it started clouding over.

But here's quite a clear shot, before the clouds got in the way, of #Jupiter (that bright thing towards the top right) and the #Pleiades (the cluster of stars towards the top left).

Shot with #LeicaQ3.

#LifeByStills #Photography #Astrophotography #Stars #NightSky #SkyAtNight #Astronomy #Space

Being in #Reykjavik city centre, there was not a hope in hell of me seeing the #AuroraBorealis (#NorthernLights) with the naked eye. But I could find the Big Dipper with the naked eye, so I simply pointed my camera at the saucepan in the sky and fired off a few shots in the dark. This was one of those shots.

Read more about this shot here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/10/3918/.

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This photograph catches the moment that the jet of water and superheated steam burst through the surface of the water at the Strokkur geyser, Iceland.

Read the story behind this shot here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/10/3908/.

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Thank you to the editors at #LeicaFotografieInternational for choosing my photo of the aurora borealis over the Drangurinn Rock in Iceland for their curated landscape gallery.

Landscape gallery: https://lfi-online.de/ceemes/en/gallery/selection/Landscape.html

Individual posting: https://lfi-online.de/ceemes/en/gallery/Landscape/The-Drangurinn-Rock-2691813.html

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The #AuroraBorealis (#NorthernLights) dancing above the #DrangurinnRock and the Eyjafjöll mountain range in southern #Iceland.

Read more about this shot here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/10/3877/.

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Of sun and ice.

This glacier is the Sólheimajökull, which translates roughly to "the Home of the Sun Glacier".

Read more about this shot here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/10/3868/.

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"It's still my duty."

Read more about this shot here: https://lifebystills.co.uk/2023/08/3846/.

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My last trip was the first trip I ever made out of #HeathrowAirport's #Terminal2, but it wasn't actually the first time I've been to T2.

I was one of the lucky test passengers pretending to board fake flights to stress test the terminal before it opened for real.

It's nice to be back and NOT miss my actual flight though, as during the testing phase, despite arriving on time, I missed my fake flight due to the way the queues and the systems crashing.

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Am absolutely knackered after about a week in #Iceland, but dang do I have some wonderful shots to share in due course!

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I just caught this in #PressGazette from last week.

One of the things which I really find worthwhile about specialising in capturing social movements and protests is being able to help illustrate articles, and foster ongoing conversations, about the rights of marginalised groups.

#LifeByStills #EditorialByStills #EditorialPhotography #Photography #Editorial #ProtestPhotography #Protest #TransRights #HumanRights #Photojournalism #Reportage #DocumentaryPhotography

@LifeByStills RT by @benedictrogers: .@benedictrogers, co-founder and chair of NGO @hk_watch, speaking at the protest rally in #London's #PiccadillyCircus in support of #HongKong's pro-#democracy movement. #LifeByStills #EditorialByStills #Photography #EditorialPhotography #ProtestPhotography #HongKongProtests The protest rally, organised by @EnglandGoodNei1, was organised to commemorate the 4th anniversary of what many saw as a night of wanton police brutality in Prince Edward MTR station [...]

I've been honoured, privileged, and humbled to have been able to capture some truly historic moments, help tell the story of those who are marginalised, and travelled to see some breathtaking sights.

Follow me for tips on #photography, #travel, and capturing #LifeByStills.

Photo byline from #HongKong on the protest rally which took place in #London's #ParliamentSquare yesterday (11 June 2023) in support of Hong Kong's pro-#democracy movement.

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https://hkcitizenmedia.com/2023/06/12/%e3%80%90-612%e5%9b%9b%e9%80%b1%e5%b9%b4-%e3%80%91%e5%80%ab%e6%95%a6%e5%8d%83%e4%ba%ba%e5%87%ba%e5%b8%ad%e9%9b%86%e6%9c%83%e7%82%ba%e7%95%99%e5%ae%88%e6%b8%af%e4%ba%ba%e6%93%94%e8%b5%b7%e8%b2%ac/

Although I have had my #photography published internationally, I think the most meaningful publication I've had to date is in a report on the #RuleOfLaw by the American Bar Association Rule of Law Institute and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales published last year (2022).

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I've had various publications internationally, like 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 in the UK and 𝘞𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘵 in Poland. But I think the most meaningful publication I've had to date is in a report on the #RuleOfLaw by the American Bar Association Rule of Law Institute and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales published last year (2022).

#LifeByStills #EditorialByStills #Photography #Photojournalism #China #HumanRights #Xinjiang #EastTurkestan #Tibet

#CherryBlossoms season in Japan is usually around March to April, although you can usually see them later than that if you go to an area where the temperature is cooler.

I shot these in late April on the banks of #LakeAshi in #Hakone. Lake Ashi is 723m above sea level, where the temperature is cool enough for the cherry blossoms to be around in late April / beginning of May.

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