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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 horse with no body to love

Todays photo is linked to the fountain in yesterdays. Both were put there to attract tourists but I think (and I guess that you probably agree) that this is the more unusual of the two. Generally known and the horse head it is actually meant to be of a horse drinking but the fact that it basically is of a decapitated horse trumps this idea.

Looking through my Lightroom library I realise that I am very rubbish in naming my photos. I think of one for the daily photo but thats about it and never record them. I have set myself the task over the weekend to go through and name most of my photos, although to to them all would take weeks do I will just do my favourites.

As promised (and because I was rubbish last week) I will be posting an extra photo on Saturday. This will probably later in the day as today is PAYDAY!!! and will probably need a lie in. See you all tomorrow.

B.A.R.C.E.L.O.N.A

As you may know, one of my favorite cities is Barcelona. I have been there many times and was our home port in Europe. 

This was taken in the Gothic sector of the city. The square was always so crowded that I had to wait around 20 minutes to capture this. I still wasnt happy as there are people in the background but on that day I wasn’t going to get any better.

I thought the sculpture was cleaver and it makes people play and look at the wording.

Art by St Paul’s

Yeah I know what your thinking, another one of St Paul’s. What can I say, I’m addicted to it. I have noticed this sculpture many times, infact there are three of them all in a row which always have someone climbing on them.

St Paul’s Cathedral is still closed to the public because of all the protesters around the front. Check out my photos of them here. I’m not sure when it will be open again but I have yet to go inside and take photos so I hope it is soon.

The just discovered glass sculpture.

While walking along the Thames, we took a slight detour around the back of the Royal Festival Hall near the Haywood Gallery. I was with two others and we each looked at each other and thought the same. How long has this been here? None of us had ever noticed it before but were all uncertain that we hadn’t seen it before.

On a closer inspection we found a plaque that I think said that it was put up for the 2011 design festival but my memory could serve me wrong. What ever it for for, it certainly was a photographers paradise; offering us reflections and lots of great architectural angles of the one sculpture.

The last one, I promise.

The same fountain, different angle.

A fountain found walking by Nottinghill

This is the same cor-ten steel sculpture from before. There was less people around so decided to show all of you what it actually looked like.

There was a cor-ten steel sculpture inhabiting an amphitheatre where people sit and mostly eat their lunch. I love how you can see the reflection of the sky in the building.