Oliver Wood Photography

Lights over The Legh

A few images from the night of the Prestbury street party.

Three Pound Fifty

The price of some plants at Prestbury Flower shop

Fire braziers at St Peters Church

A very busy street party this year which came all the way up New Road with virtually all of the village business owners running street stalls — very pleasant atmosphere.

More photos in my Prestbury, Cheshire flickr group

Fishing boat at Robin Hoods Bay, north Yorkshire

I have never really been a big fan of HDR except for where it may be necessary to recover detail in landscape shots with very high contrast. Still, I though I would apply strong HDR treatments to some of my images just for the hell of it. These have been processed with the excellent Mediachance Dynamic HDR application. The images are all derived from copies of a single original which has been adjusted in Adobe Camera Raw to create three different exposure version (-2ev 0ev and +2ev) then imported into D HDR. The processing is fairly intuitive.

Sepia and Orton effect filter

Casey Benjamin with The Robert Glasper Experiment

A few shots from the excellent Robert Glasper Experiment gig on the 21st November at Band on The Wall in Manchester (UK). Solid and highly accomplished musicianship was guaranteed from this quartet of distinguished contemporary jazz musicians and a reverential (and typically civilised) audience contributed to an atmosphere of pure artistic enjoyment. The line up includes Robert Glasper on piano (keyboards), Casey Benjamin on alto, tenor sax and vocoder, Chris Dave on drums and Derrick Hodge on base guitar. Brilliant and faultless solos were provided by all too.

This line up features on the up coming album ‘Black Radio’.

It was great to be in Band on The Wall after so many years. My first visit since the legendary venue re-opened and now it seems to be hosting a very impressive list of musicians from the jazz, R&B, Soul and Blues genres.

Casey Benjamin with The Robert Glasper Experiment

Casey Benjamin with The Robert Glasper Experiment

The Phantom Lightpainters Trail

More experimentation in the local fields — with LED torch. I’m very interested in the possibilities of this technique and want to experiment with long exposure and mobile illumination a lot more frequently. This could yield some very interesting results in a snowy landscape.

Draw Down The Moon

The phantom light painter makes his mark in the night.

Rusty Barb

Spent a very pleasant Autumn afternoon up in the ‘top fields’ — it has been unseasonally warm of late.

Oak Leaf

Autumn Bokeh Burnout

The colours are really beautiful around here now.

A look at the Prestbury flora scene as it is today …

Green to Gold
The colour in St Peters churchyard is beautiful!

Autumn Fire
Another shot from the village churchyard in Prestbury, Cheshire.

Teasel by The Bollin

Empty Road
Bakerstonedale Moor Cheshire, again.

Twilight Beeches
Bakerstonedale looking toward Pott Shrigley — one of my new favourite photo locations.

Abstract detail – Prestbury railway crossing

Stop Look Listen

Manchester bound Pendolino train