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My name is James Murray and I live in London, England but love to go exploring in foreign climates. Coming from a design background I look at photography as an extension of this, recording the lifestyles and architecture that make up are world.

My passion for photography started when I first picked up a film camera (wow I miss the darkroom), capturing the moments of my accident filled childhood. I transferred this passion into my studies mixing in all of my design influences to create my own style.

Architecture and photography are the perfect blend each complementing the other. As a HDR (High Dynamic Range) enthuiast, I use this technique to enrich my images.

I have worked as a photographer since 2010, taking photos of the enviroment that I lived in around London, selling images as artworks and to companies. In 2011 I worked for Disney on their cruise ships with the big mouse himself. Onboard I worked as a portrait and wedding photographer, learning new techniques and feeding my travel bug.

Every photo is a memory; there is no better way to capture it then how you see it, not how the camera sees it.

 

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The fountain of colour

I ended a photo walk early as I had to be up early for a long long days work. The last place I ended up before swiftly jumping on a bus to Victoria station was Marble Arch. This fountain is next to the arch put there by Westminster council to attract visitors to the area. It is a fantastic place to be at night with people travelling on Boris bikes (on drunken adventures) to come and see it.

The fountain changed colour during my long exposure from blue to pink. In post production, I merged the two colours together bringing out the best of both. It creates something that the eye could only dream os seeing when you are actually there. I hope you like it as much as I do.

The Australian War Memorial

This war memorials lies on London’s Hyde Park Corner. It is dedicated to the 102,000 Australian dead of the First and Second World Wars. 

The memorial is a semicircular curved wall of grey-green West Australian granite, with the names of 47 battles in which Australia was involved and the names of 23,844 towns in which the soldiers were born carved into it, with water running down over the names. The memorial was designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects and the artist Janet Laurence.

This image is a close up of some of the names with the water flowing over the top.

NFL in London

As some of you will know the NFL (National Football League) or as we call it, American Football, came to London recently. I was on a photowalk in London wanting to take photos of Trafalgar Square and to my surprise it was sectioned off and had a special NFL event on. We talked are way in (it wasn’t hard as entry was free but they didn’t like our camera stuff) and after they discovered that we didnt have anything to hide after searching my bad throughly, were let in. I have never seen the square so busy. I was handed a cardboard chair wondering why such an item had been given to me. 

People were gathered infront of a big tv screen and I soon found out that it was the classic ‘Jerry Maguire’ playing in a typical american fashion. I didnt stay there long but I managed to grab this photo of the Chicago Bears mascot by the fountain.

For those of you that want to know the score was Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24-18 Chicago Bears

Buckingham Palace Over the Water

This is a shot I have taken before but during the day. I went there expecting to take a few great shots but as I was walking through Green Park I could see that the statue overlooking the Palace was covered in scaffolding.

This ruined many of the compositions that I wanted to take but I just adjusted them and it gives me another reason to visit once the work is complete.

Rome was next on the agenda in Europe. I had always wanted to go there and it lived up to its reputation. It is full of wonderful Artchitecture, a photographers drem. Its a shame that I was never there in that magical “golden hour”. I have to go back at some point to have the time to take some great shots.

This is the famous Trevi fountain. You cant move around there. It is always packed full of tourists sardined into the very small space.

Sunset at Buckingham Palace

Water always looks good in HDR but the lights really add to it. I took the shots for this timelapse scene avery 2 seconds for 20 mins.

The final shot I am going to show you. I dont want to ruin the timelapse by showing you all too much.

I have a little more to do but hopefully it will be finished soon.

This part of the video looks really good. the moon appears from behind the clouds and the fountains move in the wind.

The last one, I promise.

The same fountain, different angle.

I found this fountain fascinating. You will be able to tell by the many up coming photos.