Canon 5D Mark II - Canon EF 17-40 F:4 L | 1/8 Second exposure | F14 | ISO 50 | 17mm | Fired with Canon RC-6 | Single Exposure

The last 9 day's my self and the family spent our valuable time together in Denmark "Blåvand" - We have spent time in Denmark before but not in this area, certainly worthy of a second visit next year.

Spending time with the children is very valuable to me and they also know how valuable photography is to me so from time to time we make a compromise to allow myself to have a short walk with camera and lens.

anyways, cut a long story short I have a few scapes from my trip and this is my first upload - Taken on Blåvand beach over looking the North Sea.
Canon 5D Mark II - Canon EF 17-40 F:4 L - B+W 110 Coated filter "10 Stop" 66 Second exposure at F11 ISO 200 - Single Exposure..

They made me!

I've wanted to take photo's of this building for a while and today was that day - although the image is black and white a coloured version will really show the beauty of this building but today I arrived a little late and the light was not on my side..

(Quote) "It is a futuristic building which is the new headquarters of the German manufacturer of glass Glaskoch. Its main brand, "Leonardo", has been named this concept as unique and striking architecture."

I shall revisit the Glass Cube in the coming day's to take both day and night shots in an attempt to make some coloured images!

Canon 5D Mark II - Canon EF 17-40 F/4 L - CPL to help remove the reflections of the glass.

Glass Cube

At the moment I have no time for landscapes but I've always got time for the children. Lucy loves to create her own poses and model for the camera but on one condition, she get's to see every shot on the back of the camera or it's not happening!

3 weeks I'm done with the cellar and then back to the great outdoors!

One of my favorite locations in the UK "North Wales" and only 80 Miles from my home Village. Snowdonia is the highest mountain in Wales 3,560 ft (1,085 m). On this day I was accompanied by my family, our goal for the day was to head up to the top via train but unfortunately the train service was fully booked for the next 4 days, maybe next time. Instead we decided to walk part of the Miners Track up untill lake Llyn Llydaw our final destination - beyond this point carrying a 3 year can be a bit of a challenge.

From the lower end of Llyn Llydaw I was able to capture some amazing shot's of both the lake and the peak of Snowdon. For this particular shot I waited for the sun to disappear and partly reappear from behind a cloud just enough to remove direct sun light from snowdon peak "see note" and light up the smaller mountain to the right of the frame.

My camera mounted on a tripod, I composed the shot in manual mode using Live View. To balance the light I used a Lee 0.9 3 Stop Soft Graduated filter - slowly dropping the filter in to it's holder untill I was satisfied I had the light balanced between foreground and background. Prior to using lee filters I was using Cokin, I'm gob smacked by the quality of lee filters and with zero colour cast!

I spend a lot of my evenings running and often I run past this house, I must say it's such a special place to live - the view is awsome!

5D Mark II - Canon EF 100mm 2.8 L IS Macro - 67mm Step up ring to 77mm B+W 10 stop... 7 second exposure...

*UPDATE - Added a second image with an alternative orientation...