David Williamson

Wooden boats

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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We were lucky enough to visit Pyramiden on Svalbard a mining ghost town (Almost, population 5) It’s a Russian coal mining town from 1910. It’s the kind of place that you could spend a life time photographing, I had 2 hours and our group was accompanied everywhere by an armed guard. On the way from the boat I saw this pair I just had to stop and shot a couple of pictures. The light in the late afternoon was magical.

Nikon D800
Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8
PP Silver Efex Pro II

Rescue me

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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Still in Svalbard. We were on a boat trip to an old Russian mining community, Pyramiden.  Our boat was picked out to help with an exercise of new crew on the helicopter. People were winched up and down to the helicopter from the deck of our boat, amazing if not a little noisy to watch.

Nikon D800
Nikon 300mm f/4.0E PF ED VR AF-S
PP Silver Efex Pro II

Mine No 3 Svalbard

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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This shot I took in Svalbard at Mine number 3 it was a working coal mine between 1971-November 1996. All the equipment was just left were it was. Everyone left in the middle of a shift.

Here you see part of the workshop, plans and half built constructions were everywhere.With such poor lighting and not wanting to use flash I used natural light streaming though a very dirty window.
Nikon D800
Nikon 14-24 f72.8 AFS

Svalbard

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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I was lucky enough to spend 5 days on Svalbard recently and that kind of polished my poor landscape genre a little. This I took on my last day there. It had already started to snow and the local mountains already had a good coating of the white stuff.

Nikon D800
Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 AFS
PP in Silver Efex Pro II

Hole Of Horcum

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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I have a love hate relationship with landscapes. I love other peoples, my own efforts I always find somewhat lacking. However I offer you dear reader, this example. I took it while on a walk on the North Yorkshire Moors. It had just stopped raining so the clouds were quite dramatic I thought.
Leica M9P
Leica Summilux M-35mm f/1.4 ASPH.
PP. Silver efex Pro II

This lovely couple…

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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…I met while wondering around Whitby abbey. Dracula enthusiasts will know that Bram Stokers book is based around the Abbey and Whitby’s environs. In fact I was waiting for a Dracula play to start when this wonderful couple walked passed me. I couldn’t pass up the temptation to ask them to get in front of my lens.

Leica M9P
Leica Summilux M-35mm f/1.4 ASPH.
PP. I did very little to this shot just a frame and some edge darkening in Silver Efex Pro II