As part of the Cultural Olympiad in the runup to the London 2012 Olympic Games, Looping the Loop was a cultural and arts festival held in The Quays, Manchester on 19 May 2012.
Here are my first batch of completed images from the day.
Some unretouched shots from Looping the Loop in Salford Quays, May 19 2012
Some out of the camera, un retouched shots from Looping the Loop in Salford Quays on 19 May 2012.
Galeries Lafayette is a French department store. The flagship store is a 10 storey structure located on Boulevard Haussman in Paris. The interior is quite stunning.
The Puffins were shot in Iceland. The Galapagos Hawk (which had just taken down the frigate bird) and Yellow Warbler were shot in the Galapagos Islands.
A beautiful city for night photography. Great buildings, loads of canals which were perfectly calm resulting in great reflections.
Sunset over Moreton Island off the east coast of Australia. This was all the more spectacular because of the clouds.
Mirror Lake, in Yosemite National Park, California, is so named as the water is usually perfectly calm, resulting in almost ideal reflective conditions.
Steve Oldham Photography 