Tuesday 29 January 2013

Padley Gorge video

Been working with a friend of mine, Paul Gorny, on a video project since the Autumn about a place called Padley Gorge in the Peak District. Today we could see light at the end of the tunnel as we are almost finished. We are half way through colour correction with just transitions and titles to be added.


I can reveal that there will be a lot of these in it!

Sunday 27 January 2013

Trip to Ladybower Reservoir


My girlfriend and I were finally able to get out into the Peak District yesterday. We managed to get to Ashopton Viaduct that crosses part of the Ladybower reservoir and then risked going up the tract to the Upper Derwent visitor centre. After about 100m or so we started to think it may have been a bad idea as this track hadn't been cleared and was like driving on an ice rink. Fortunately we made to the visitor centre without any incidents and were greeted by a large flock of very hungry ducks. They must of been feeling a little neglected as relatively few people had ventured up there due to the heavy snow recently.

Photographically I was after the blue skies for my landscapes, however the clouds rolled in quite quickly and the visibility began to decrease. I was able to get a nice reflection shot though.


My favourite part of the visitor centre is the bird gardens next to the car park. Here you can get really close to a variety of song birds visiting the feeders. I could of stood there all afternoon taking pictures of all the visiting birds. The stars of the afternoon were the resident male Chaffinch's as they were particularly photogenic.

 

neiltaylormedia.com is up and running!


Hello and welcome! The bare bones of my website are now in place. Please feel free to take a look around neiltaylormedia.com. There you will find a selection of my work. My main interests are photographing and filming wildlife and brownfield sites. Over the coming weeks I will be adding more content as well as adding pricing profiles for prints and downloads.