John Browne

Garre Du Nord Paris
This placed First in the Beginners Black and White section of the Limerick camera club competition this week.
The photo is taken in Gare du Nord,  Paris, from the top of the steps leading to the Eurostar check-in area. I had to ask 3 heavily armed soldiers to move so that I could get a shot of the station. They were very obliging.
I had arrived on the Eurostar from Kings Cross St. Pancras in London. Compared to St. Pancras Gare du Nord is a bit of a shed. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to take any pictures of the recently renovated St. Pancras station but it is on my list of places to go back to.
The focus point in this photo is the glass at the rear of the trainshed. This is so the grid of panes are sharp as this is the loaction where all the lines in the station are leading.

I was a bit diappointed with the quality of the print I thought it was a bit too dark but other people seemed to like it.

Lindau
This Photo was taken in Lindau in Southern Germany. Lindau sits on Lake Constance (Bodensee) which borders Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The harbour is very sheltered with a wall that surrounds it and a narrow entrance between the Lion and the Lighthouse. The Lion on the left is the symbol of Bavaria. The lights that are visible across the lake are in Bregenz ,Austria. I had started the day in Zurich with a train journey to Konstanz. Then I took a ferry to Friedrichschafen and then on to Lindau. So lots of Photos were taken. This is probably the best of them.
I had to clone out the mobile phone mast on the top of the light house. It was rather unsightly.
This Photo placed second in the beginners colour section of the Limerick camera club December monthly competition this evening.

Karlsplatz Munich
This photo was taken in Karlsplatz in Munich.
I was originally taking photos of Mike in front of the fountain but they weren’t coming out very well so I took a couple of the fountain by itself. It was only when I looked at this one on the screen afterwards that I saw the little girl on the right. I think she adds quite alot to the photo.
The Photo was submitted to the Limerick Camera Club monthly competition challenge section. The challenge was “Water”. The photo didn’t place.
The colour effect was achieved by using a levels adjustment layer in photoshop and changing the black colour

Pictures taken at the BMW facility in Munich in September

All pictures taken with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi and a sigma 18-50 f2.8 lens.

Update 13/10/08: I have no Idea why the above image won’t display from flickr. It’s worth a look by clicking here

Fake Tilt and shift effect photo, taken from the hill in the Olympia park in Munich. The BMW tower is on the right and the BMW Welt show room is on the left, with the BMW museum (with the blue stripe) under the tower.

A Black and White Photo of the BMW Museum. Converted in Photoshop.

BMW tower with a prototype hydrogen car in the foreground.

BMW tower with either a hydrogen or a hybrid prototype ( I can’t remeber which) in the foreground.

This is a picture taken in the glass facade of the BMW Welt car showroom. All of the above are visible in the Photo.

If each beer in the last post represents a Maß of Helles in the last week then I think I may not have put in enough beers.

I’ll do a count later but I seem to be falling someway behind Mike.