Graham Leggate

This is post is actually for some friends who are in HK at the moment, on yet another holiday! (yes, I am jealous!) I have been busy trying to get my photo library back in order after I magically ended up duplicating around 7000 images which resulted in a library which was a bit of a mess! Anyway, whilst sorting the library out, I came across from pictures from HK from 2002. So I thought I would post a few travel street/life photo’s to give my friends some inspiration to capture some candids.

I was looking though some older pictures and came across some pictures from the Maldives which I thought I would post. The first makes it all look a bit miserable, but even when it’s raining, the place is still lovely. The second picture is the jetty leading to the spa treatments at the Hilton. If you haven’t visited the Maldives, best to get in quick whilst they are still here.

Whilst looking though some older photo’s, I also found this one of Whitehaven Beach, taken from the lookout where all the tourists go. The beach is just lovely and plenty of baby reef sharks and rays darting about in the shallows. Time for a holiday I think!

Here’s an image I took a few years back whilst sailing around the Whitsunday’s on a 54 foot timber Schooner, called the Schooner Friendship. I thought I would use the original image as a test image to try out some post-processing based on a technique from Christian Fletcher.

I’m still sorting out my library of pictures in Aperture, so from time to time I come across pictures which I think worth showing, The image below was taken down in Esperence a few of years ago, and I had bracketed many of the shots. So I thought I would attempt another HDR. So here it is.

Well, with the new MBPro and using Aperture, I have started re-organising my library of images, which is well over due. It’s amazing how things can get out of hand over the years, and little gems disappear out of sight. This picture might not be to every bodies liking, but I like it. It was taken on a holiday in Esperance a few years ago, shot on a Nikon D100 f22 1/5sec. I remeber it being very windy and cold, even though we were on holiday in January!

I thought I would go back to some of my favorites and add some frames. This photo was taken in the UK on my old film Nikon F90X. I wish I could head back to this place and re-shoot it in digital.

Below is another picture taken back a few years ago, which I think deserved to be framed and displayed.