Author Archives: Michael Hilton

This morning might have been a great sunrise, at a civilised time, but was rather grey instead.  But is suited this picture of a flooded field perfectly.

You can’t beat a good waterfall as the subject for a beautiful landscape.  And the autumn leaves cover up a lot of the usually-distracting riverbank, rather like snow might to in mid-winter.  This is Plas Power near Wrexham, an easy-to-reach … Continue reading →

Autumn’s a great time to make colourful and beautiful images, but here are three more impressionistic pictures; all were created simply by waving the camera about during the exposure.

If your picture is only going to be viewed for a fraction of a second you need “impact” – and this picture certainly has it.

This is a canopy of trees – or just some foliage really.  Photographed from Faringdon Folly Tower looking almost straight down; of course that’s the tower’s shadow in the picture.  Even my shadow is visible, just.

You will have seen many pictures of Antony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’ on the beach at Crosby.  Hopefully this one’s a bit different. It’s a closeup of the corrosion on the back of one of the 100 figures.  Click on the … Continue reading →

I have only just got round to looking at some pictures from last autumn in Cholmondeley’s gardens.  It was a chilly and grey day but the light suited the subjects perfectly.  Plants at the end of their lives or just … Continue reading →

The weather was a bit too cloudy around sunset on the solstice but it did clear just long enough for the moon to make a hazy appearance next to Beeston Castle in Cheshire.  Peckforton Castle also makes an appearance in … Continue reading →

This is late evening at Ploumanac’h on the coast of Brittany.  It has more interesting and colourful boulders than anywhere I’ve seen.  In fact there are so many that it can be difficult too get yourself to anywhere off the official … Continue reading →

I keep reading that bad weather makes great pictures; it’s true up to a point but the scene above looked very boring until the sun struggled out and lit up the rainstorm.  It only lasted for a minute so it’s … Continue reading →