I’m happy to report my photos from Lebanon are finally now live.

You can view the gallery over on importedlight.com.

I’ve also booked my next two trips. The first to Chile, Bolivia and Peru (where I’m in the high Atacama and need to be careful of altitude sickness) and the second to Iceland to see the Northern Lights (hopefully).

Still going through my shots from Lebanon! The photo above is of Pigeon Rock – a natural formation just of the coast of the Raouché district in Beirut. Quite a popular destination for locals and tourists to take photos and it apparently featured recently on the cover of the Microsoft search engine Bing.

105mm f/4.0 1/500sec ISO 100

I’ve never been on a trip where so many people had Kindles. eReaders have definitely entered the mainstream! This was shot on a recent trip to Lebanon. Our minibus got a flat tire as we wound our way up into the mountains to view the cedar reserve. Whilst we waited for our (excellent) driver to fix the wheel some took a few moments to catch up on their reading.

I got the flu upon returning so haven’t got as far with processing my photos as I’d hope but I’ll post the odd shot here until the gallery is ready.

So what do you call a collection of Santas? A sleigh of Santas? A gift of Santas? Of course traditionally there’s only one but each year in cities across the UK (and probably across the world) a {insert collective noun here} of Santas get together to run for charity.

The Leeds Santa Dash, in aid of St Gemma’s Hospice, was today and despite the wet weather there was a large turn out. I grabbed this shot of two young girls at the front of the pack during the warm up session before the run. I’ve no idea who won, but then that’s not really the point is it. I guess the winner at the end of the day is St Gemma’s and the money raised to support them.

Burning Desire by Marc Quinn – one of the two dozen or so sculptures in this year’s Beyond Limits exhibition of contemporary sculpture by Sotherbys shown at Chatsworth House in the Peak District, UK.

Well after a couple of weeks of processing my Namibia photos are now online. Feel free to follow the link below to view the full gallery. I’d love to know what you think so why not drop me a comment too?

ImportedLight : Namibia

I’m still working on my Namibia photos but thought I’d post the above shot of two mud-covered elephants at one of the waterholes we visited in Etosha park in the meantime.

So I’m back from Namibia and working through my photos. As I’m sure you all won’t be interested in 78 pictures of Giraffes (there were loads of them!) I’m working through the shots I took to whittle them down to a more manageable number with just one or two of each animal. Look out for more soon.

Despite the inclement weather I popped to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park yesterday evening as it was one of their rare late openings.

The current Jaume Plensa exhibition is great but I had noticed many of the pieces are lit. With the long summer nights its been difficult to see this but the combination of a late night opening and a stormy sky meant we could get a better feel for how some of the sculpture looks when lit up.

Unfortunately the weather was wet and rather than a nice clear blue twilight sky it ended up being a little cloudy/stormy. Still just before I left and as it began to rain, I managed to grab the above shot.