Great Western Celebrating the 200th anniversary(!) of the world's first railway, the Stockton & Darlington Railway, last Saturday. This is a shot of a locomotive on the Dartmouth Steam Railway in the station in Paignton, Devon. #photography #railway #locomotive #steam #Dartmouth #Paignton

Red Umbrella at the Boston Marathon The 2018 Boston Marathon saw some of the worst weather in its history: rain, fierce headwinds and temperature just a few degrees above freezing. I took this multiple-exposure HDR shot from a trolley car on the Green Line. #photography #Boston #Marathon #HDR

The Pace Line Bicycles at the Mayor's Cup Criterion in Boston. #photography #bicycle #criterion #Boston

Pinkham Notch Early spring in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Just a little bit of fog and around a half-second exposure get the mood just right. #photography #NewHampshire #WhiteMountains #PinkhamNotch #river

View from the Burgess Shale This is Yoho National Park in British Columbia, Canada. We took a (supervised) hike up to the famous Burgess Shale site, where thousands of Cambrian (~580 million years old) fossils have been discovered. #photography #landscape #travel #Yoho #Canada #BurgessShale

Fotoshop A camera shop in Pittsburgh where I worked while in grad school. Ironically, this shot uses little Photoshop: I just shot the reflection in a shop window across the street and flipped it in Photoshop so you can read the sign. #photography #Fotoshop #Photoshop #Pittsburgh #SquirrelHill

Liver Building, Liverpool Old school and new school: The famous Liver Building reflected in glass. Liverpool is brilliant city to visit even if you aren't a Beatles fan. #photography #architecture #Liverpool

Cinque Terra, Fishing at Dawn The Italian Riviera on the northwestern coast of Italy. I got this shot during a (very) early morning walk near Monterosso al Mare. #photography #Italy #CinqueTerra #Monterosso #seascape #dawn

Pennine Way Fingerpost This is between Thwaite and Keld in Yorkshire, a really beautiful stretch of the Pennine Way (though it's all very nice). Taken with a 20mm lens to get that wide landscape look. #photography #landscape #Yorkshire #PennineWay #FingerpostFriday

The Bell Tower, Bruges Another shot from one of my favourite places, Bruges, Belgium (just be sure not to visit during in the peak of summer tourist season). This bell tower is an icon of the city and features prominently in the movie "In Bruges". #photography #Bruges #Belgium #tower

Salisbury Cathedral Passageway One of the few instances in which I've used HDR to make an image look more natural rather than less. (Tip on visiting Salisbury Cathedral: Go in winter. It's MUCH less crowded than in summer and just as beautiful.) #photography #Salisbury #cathedral #HDR

Amsterdam Portrait I was walking along a canal in Amsterdam in the rain, on my way to dinner, when I came upon this painting. It was lying face down when I came upon it but I stood it up to see what it was. I have no idea why it was abandoned but I love the mystery. #photography #Amsterdam #mystery

Rupert Street Rendezvous I love doing street photography (even multi-exposure HDR like this) in Soho and Rupert Street is one of my favourite spots. I never get tired of this place. #photography #street #HDR #RupertStreet #Soho #London

Leeds Castle Doorway — phone wallpaper I don't know if this doorway is as old as it looks, but since it's in Leeds Castle it certainly could be. Formatted for phone wallpaper. #photography #castle #doorway #LeedsCastle #wallpaper

Bolinas Lagoon at Low Tide Viewed from Audubon Canyon Ranch. I believe I used a 300mm f/2.8 lens with a 2x teleconverter (this is a film photo, not digital, so there's no metadata available). #photography #landscape #Bolinas #AudubonCanyonRanch

Sissinghurst Garden Pond Taken in Sissinghurst Gardens, Kent many years ago, back in the days of film. Still one of my favourite impressionistic nature photos. #photography #nature #Sissinghurst #flowers #pond

Green Mountain Creek Ironically, this creek is not in the Green Mountains of Vermont but the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. I sacrificed a significant amount of blood to the local mosquito population to get this photo. #photography #nature #BlueRidge #GreenMountainCreek #NorthCarolina

Oxford High Street Commute Pedestrians, cyclists and cars heading home at the end of the day in Oxford. This is High Street near Magdalen College. I love winter because you get sunset early enough to get shots like this. Half-second single exposure. #photography #Oxford #UK #night

Salisbury Cathedral. Home of the tallest steeple in the UK (123 meters, as every FSB agent knows!) #photography #Salisbury #cathedral

Stream in the Whine Mountains Taken somewhere near Pinkham Notch in New Hampshire, USA. I'm a sucker for these kind of shots because they're so much fun to do. Tripod, low ISO (possibly an ND filter) and there you go! #photography #nature #stream #WhiteMountains #NewHampshire

Bruges Canal Reflection Love the city of Bruges (see the movie!) – though it's best avoided during peak tourist season. The canals offer many opportunities for photography that I just can't resist. #photography #Bruges #Belgium #canal #reflection

Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle Great light in this chapel, which dates back to 1814. Pretty recent as far as European architecture goes. #photography #Dublin #chapel

Casa Larga Vineyards, Fairport, NY This is two old film photographs that, years after I shot them, I realized could be joined together into a panorama. Shooting horizontally isn't ideal for pano stitching, but in this case it worked. #photography #panorama #film #vineyard #Fairport

Portal This is the south entrance to the Greenwich pedestrian tunnel in London. A 5-exposure HDR shot gives it the otherworldly look I think it deserves. We actually walked the tunnel after getting this photo, just to try it out. #photography #London #Greenwich #tunnel

Cyclist at the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford You might have to look carefully to see the cyclist, but it's the reason I love this photo. Taken at one of Oxford's most famous landmarks. #photography #Oxford #RadcliffeCamera #bicycle

St. Michael Kirche, Steyr, Austria From a bicycle trip through Austria a couple of years ago. Steyr is one of my favourite little-known (to those of us outside Austria) cities. #photography #churches #Steyr #Austria #HDR #StMichaelKirche

Paddington Panorama A series of quick phone snaps yielded this panoramic view of Paddington station. The images don't line up well and there are plenty of visible alignment errors, but I still enjoy the image. #Paddington #London #railway #station

Gloucester Road Station This is a 12-exposure HDR/Panorama of one of my favourite tube stations in London. The red brick Leslie Green building on the left is no longer a tube station but the older, 19th-century station still is. #photography #London #Underground #Tube #HDR #Panorama #LeslieGreen

Stinson Beach Dawn Stinson Beach, California, looking out towards San Francisco. This is an old-school film photograph (Kodak E100VS, I believe) taken with a 300mm f/2.8 lens. #photography #seascape #California #StinsonBeach #dawn

Yes, This Is Really Wales The beach at Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire. Where we stayed on the last night before beginning our walk of the Coast Path. It's a great little seaside town. #photography #seascape #Wales #pembrokeshire #Saundersfoot

Rings at Charing Cross Street scene outside the Hippodrome Casino in London. Triple-exposure HDR captured hand held. #photography #London #CharingCross #Hippodrome #HDR

Liverpool Impressionism This is 10 exposures combined. Taken at the corner of Strand St and Liver St. All shots were taken hand held, so they don't line up perfectly, but I really like the resulting effect. #photography #Liverpool #MultipleExposure #HDR

Museum of Oxford Curiously, though I've been to Oxford dozens of times I've never visited the Museum of Oxford. perhaps next time. #photography #Oxford #architecture #MuseumOfOxford

Red Line, Boston This is a 6-exposure HDR/panorama taken in the Park Street station (America's first subway station!) in Boston. #photography #Boston #HDR #transit #subway

I'm back from my hiking trip to Wales! Most of my best shots came from the rugged Pembrokeshire coastline, but I'll start out with this classic shot of Cardiff Castle to warm up. #Wales #Cardiff #Castle

Another phone snap from the Pembrokeshire Coast Path.

When in Pembroke, taking a photo of the castle is mandatory. So here you go.

The trek continues. Here's a quick phone snap from the third day of our Pembrokeshire Coast Path hike.

Walking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Wales. Here's a quick phone snap of what it looks like.

Hey airlines! Here's an idea: Make boarding passes just slightly bigger than passports - big enough that they stick out a little, but small enough that they can go in the same pocket together.

Llyn Llydaw, Wales. A 5-shot panorama of the lake below Snowdon. I'll be posting less frequently for the next week or so as I'll be hiking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in south Wales. Photos to follow... #photography #landscape #Wales #Snowdonia

Erie Canal at 6:00 AM Taken in Bushnell's Basin, NY years ago with a Sigma EX 300mm f/2.8 lens. This shot won a Sigme photo contest and netted me a very nice 180mm f/3.5 macro lens as a prize. I've since used the 180 macro much more than the 300! #photography #landscape #ErieCanal

The Coach and Horses. One of my favourite pubs in London. And like everything else in Soho, it's best photographed at night, in the rain. (And include a bicycle, if possible.) This is a triple-exposure HDR shot. #photography #London #Soho #CoachAndHorses #pub #bicycle

Shanty Branch Spring. Old-school film photo taken with a hulking Pentax 67 and 75mm f/4.5 lens. Shutter speed somewhere around 20 seconds because the film was slow Fuji Velvia. #photography #landscape #Velvia #GrandfatherMountain #BlueRidge #NorthCarolina

Sunrise at Dolly Sods Wilderness. I drove all day Saturday to get there and the rain rolled in as soon as I arrived. But the skies cleared around 3 a.m. and I was able to get some good sunrise shots. #photography #landscape #WestVirginia #DollySods #sunrise

Brixton Backstreet. A multiple-exposure HDR shot from Brixton, London. Love the graffiti — it brings individuality to an otherwise generic urban location. #photography #London #Brixton #graffiti #HDR

Torquay, Devon. Phone wallpaper. The coastline in Torquay, which is near where I lived when I was a kid (though I took this photo decades after I lived there). Beautiful part of the South West Coast path. #photography #seascape #Devon #UK #coast

Chenonceau Reflection When I was cycling the Loire valley a few years ago I was at Chateau Chenonceau on a dismal, cloudy day. So to minimize the gray sky I shot the reflection of the chateau in the river Cher. #photography #France #Loire #Chenonceau #chateau #Cher

Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool Everyone I know who's visited Liverpool has been surprised at what a brilliant place it is. There's much more to it than Beatles tourism. Definitely worth a trip. #photography #Liverpool #UK #travel

Glasgow: Not as bad as Frankie Boyle says it is. Here's another shot of Glasgow Cathedral. I've been to Glasgow a couple of times and, though it's not exactly Paris or London, it's not as grim as its popular image. #Glasgow #Scotland #cathedral