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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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Looking out over Segesta

The only landscapes I have taken with what you would call greenery and mountains have been while I was in Sicily. I need to get out and about around England and surrounding areas to shoot the british countryside. That is my resolution for this year like I have mentioned before. 

I have posted a picture of a temple in Segesta before and you can just see it in the centre of this image. 

Lots and lots of green

I hardly ever am able to post a landscape shot. Since I live in London I mainly focus on cityscapes and architecture but would love to visit the English country side to get more like this. Well this isn’t really the English countryside as you can probably tell. This is a landscape in Erice, Malta.

I am making it a 2012 resolution to get more shots like this. The top of my list if a trip to the south of Wales as I have a friend there who I haven’t seen in ages. It also tapes the the countryside is excellent and can’t wait to get some sunset pictures on the coastline.

Rudolf the giant green reindeer, has a very shiny nose.

Merry Christmas and all that jazz. I hope all of you had a great christmas day bout for some of you the festivities are only beginning. If your family is anything like mine you will now be preparing to the mass family get together. That means all cousins, young children and distant family relatives will be sitting on chairs of all different heights around a dinner table.

For those of you who are all christmased (yes I made up that word) out now of the time for shopping in the sales; although for those of us in London will perhaps not have that joy as the Tube strike is now on making like hell for Londoners.

This giant reindeer lives in Covent Garden for christmas. People always gather around it as a meeting point this time of year. 

Anyway, what ever you do today I hope you enjoy it!

Trees at the Tate Modern

I processed this image a while ago but have only just learned to like it. That happens sometimes as you spend a while processing it and don’t appreciate it after. Happily now I am pleased with it.

For those of you who do not know this is a photo of the Tate Modern art gallery on London’s south bank. I am always around this area so have many photos of the exterior but have yet to take one inside. I will do at some point.

Over the Tiber

I want to go back to Rome to explore some more. It is a surprisingly small city taking around 45 minutes to walk from the Vatican on one side to the Colosseum on the other. This was taken during that walk as we went over one of the bridges over the Tiber river. I can’t remember what bridge it was, perhaps someone can say. Some of the most beautiful bridges that I have seen cross this river with huge stone statues lining the sides of most of them.

A Blue Aquarium Glow

The blue glow of the London Aquarium always makes the Southbank standout. Combined with the giant London Eye (that night lit up in green) it makes for a beautiful sight.

This long exposure captures the movement of the Millennium Wheel over a 30 second period.

July 7th Memorial in Hyde Park

A permanent memorial to honour the victims of the 7 July 2005 London Bombings is in place in London’s Hyde park. There are 52 stainless steel pillars, one for each person killed in the attack. It was created by a design team including architects Carmody Groarke and engineering team Arup.

It is one of my favorite things to photo as it has many angles to discover. It was the site for one of my very first HDRs that you can see here.

Leading to the Mayor

I took many photos on this purple night but I felt weird trying to take this photo with a couple getting cosy on the steps. You might ask “why didn’t you wait until they were gone?” I tried! I went around taking loads in the area and an hour later I got back to this spot and they were still there. 

Other then that moment London was kind to me that night.