As it’s a lazy Sunday and all… have been looking through a few images taken from my last trip back to New Zealand. There’s one particular beach just over an hour’s drive north from my home in Auckland. You can drive up there on a Sunday morning and literally have the whole beach to yourself. It’s an amazing part of the world with a nice little wave peeling in, perfect for longboards. But perhaps one of my favourite things about this beach is that you can rock up in your car, don’t have to pay for parking, and you can pitch your tent where you like and spend a day or two in the most beautiful part of the world whenever you like!

Fotoviva are now selling Ant Clausen prints. This great site sells fine art prints from photographers all over the UK. The work is reproduced on canvas, acrylic or professional grade photo paper.
This photo from the west coast of Scotland was my lucky first sale from the site…

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A classic moody Liverpudlian sky greeted the thousands of people coming to the HUB Festival last weekend. This eventually fined up with an amazing sunny afternoon had by all.

To view the complete gallery from the day – please click here: HUB Festival Gallery

To check out more of Ant’s Event images – please click here: Ant Clausen Event Photography

Think i’m over the jet-lag now, so with a bit of luck the blog will start to roll again.
Here’s one of my favourite shots from my recent trip back home to New Zealand. Taken at sunrise on a beach north of where I grew up – I guess it’s the subtle moody tones of the images I like. Last year I was chasing big dramatic landscapes. This year, so far, i’m enjoying more of a toned-down feel.

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An interesting theory – what happens when a “blogger” gets a bit too busy and perhaps doesn’t have time to add the attention and detail needed to keep a blog ticking along. I imagine a similar occurrence when a writer gets writer’s block and they stop writing for a while until they find inspiration from somewhere… and start writing again. I guess one of the bonuses of writing a photography blog is that you can always let the photos do the talking. And that’s definitely a bonus, and in a lot of ways – that’s how it should be. So today in “show and tell”..without further adieu… here’s one of my favourite shots from the past year, as it embraces everything I stand for. Firstly you have to have healthy respect for the ocean before you go out into big surf. You have to have a sense of adventure and daring to take on a big wave and ride it with grace and you have to enjoy the lifestyle that goes along with everything to do with “our mother ocean”

Have just finished uploading some prints to my new online print shop. Am starting with a selection of 30 landscapes shot over the past year. They will be sold as a limited edition of 30 signed and numbered prints. There will be different sizes available and framed canvas prints also. I’ve been travelling across to North Wales a lot in the past year – so the majority of the prints are from the beautiful Snowdonia region. Give me a shout if you have any questions – and check out the print shop by clicking here
Cheers!

Yet another Welsh place name that i’m finding really easy to pronounce! Regardless of that – it’s a beautiful drive in from England… just under 2 hours away from Liverpool to this winter wonderland. It was mid-morning when i looked across and saw the mist rising through the mountains in the distance. I have to admit i’m a bit of a sucker when it comes to this sort of misty, moody mountain shot. Was just glad I had the 70 – 200VR lens in the car. With the lens at 200m I got a centre-weighted meter reading from the scene and popped off a couple of shots. Have adjusted the contrast slightly in Adobe Lightroom, and that’s it. I love the fact this is only a short trip away from Liverpool, but could be anywhere in the world. (imho!)

… that’s what I had to work with last night in Shropshire. I went wandering circa sunset to try and find a place to photograph. It wasn’t looking too promising in the small village of More. T’was an overcast evening, cold and windy. I found old stone bridge over a river (that was probably just a stream before the rain) and I followed it towards the sunset looking for a potential silhouette of one of the amazing trees in the distance. The river bank soon turned to flooded swampland. It was the end of the road and I was forced to work with what I had in front of me: a tree, a river and a barbed-wire fence.
Here’s a few photographs:

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Jack Frost has come out to play in this recent series of photographs taken in North Wales. The first few are from Llyn Gwynant in Snowdonia. It was around 3pm and we knew we’d have to make the ‘ramble’ rather brisk to make it round the lake before dark. The second set are taken around the Denbigh/Conwy area on Boxing Day.

Nothing much more to say… apart from the sunset…

Comes from the south coast of Mallorca at 6am. I wandered gingerly round the rocks using my mobile phone as a flashlight. It was a cold, stormy morning. No warm postcard sunrises to be had today. I set up the tripod, got out the trusty wide angle lens and tried to find a stable position in the ragged rocks. Meter was showing a 30 second exposure would do it… so down went the shutter and a quick huddle to keep warm. Post-processing completed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, with just a slight contrast adjustment. The concept of the photograph is to show how darn cold it was, and to portray the feeling of serenity that you get from standing on a rocky coastline with nobody else around, at sunrise.