Wall of Heroes
Posted on September 23, 2013
Football is a big deal in Bermuda and these five Bermudian players, honoured with a building-high mural on Court Street, Hamilton, are among the few Islanders to have played successfully at a professional level. Pictured from left to right are Clyde Best, who starred for English side West Ham in the 1970s; David Bascome, who won a US indoor league title with the Baltimore Blast; Shaun Goater, who played for top English side Manchester City, as well as Rotherham, Bristol City and Southend; Nahki Wells, currently a prolific goalscorer with Bradford City in England’s League One and the first Bermudian to score a goal at Wembley; and Kyle Lightbourne, whose English clubs included Stoke City and Walsall.
Local artist Manuel Palacio and a team of volunteers created the work this summer as part of a project to improve and brighten up North East Hamilton, a neglected part of the city, frequently blighted by drugs and violence. I shot this as part of an ongoing series on public art in Bermuda. It’s an awkward location as there’s a chain link fence in front of the mural which makes getting the whole wall on an iPhone 5 tricky without a wide angle lens. I used the AutoStitch app to get the panoramic shot.
Touch of the old west
Posted on September 23, 2013
To say Roudy is a character is an understatement. He’s been running trailrides out of Telluride, Colorado, for almost 40 years and looks like he stepped right out the Old West, which is why I took these Hipstamatic shots using the Tinto 1884 lens and C-Tye Plate film to give them a worn, vintage feel (apart from the ranch shot which was shot with Doris lens and Sussex film).
If you’re ever out west, I can highly recommend a ride with the dude! Check him out here.
Mining the past
Posted on August 2, 2013
Aspen grove
Posted on August 1, 2013
Two treatments of the same image, an impressive grove of Aspens taken during a hike along the Deep Creek Trail in Telluride, Colorado this summer. The first is blended with an Impressionistic style in Artista Oil HD while for the second I used Snapseed’s black and white controls to increase the dramatic height and contrast in the trunks.



