Time to say goodbye.....

yes, its been nice here.... on Blogspot that is...

Scotland-Visions wont be updated here aymore.

I am now able to host my blog on my own website. If you want to find out about my latest work (and I know you do...) please come and visit my blog at http://www.martinacross.com/

See you there.... byebye

A Galaxy Not Too Far Away...

The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, is visible with the naked eye.

Here is a humble attempt at Astro Photography, a subject that truly fascinates me.

Unfortunately this is not a hobby for impatient souls, but whenever the nightshift weathergod permitts I am out and learning and hopefully one day my skills will be much better than this rather amateurish photo... watch that space haha...

New RB Features

Resurrection

Sunset

I am very happy that "Resurrection" was featured in yet another two groups, as well as another feature for "The Hole" and two features for "Keiss Harbour"

"Sunset" was announced the challenge winner in the Celtic Realm group.

Me-time

This morning I have spent a little "Me" time down at Thurso pier. I translated many of my ideas into photos and I must say it was a rather productive hour... (flipping cold though)

Here are just a few of the shots that I took this morning...

Expect the Unusual

Well, from now on I set myself the task to experiment with some (for myself) rather not so commonly used print shapes.

Having dived and fully submerged into the "Square" format, I am very much enjoying the slim vertical panorama shape at the moment too.

Here are some "vertical firsts"... More to follow...

RB News

I have had another 4 of my photos featured in various groups of Redbubble, as well as another Challenge win. "Sunset", "Resurrection", " Keiss Harbour" and "The Hole" (above) were featured and "Coo" won in a group Challenge.

Its Grunge Time

exactly what it says on the tin :-) Square, of course!

Redbubble Features

Over the weekend I got three more Redbubble features for my work. Two photos have previously been shown here on the blog. For "Coo" its the first feature in a group, beside having been featrued on the RB homepage. For "Top Secret Location" its the 6th feature in a group, beside two top tens in challenges.

"Surfing The Ocean Of Time" is my latest creation in my Grunge series, more of that later on...

Sleeping Beauties

Whenever I trail though my extensive photo library I like to explore further possibilities that I havent thought of when I shot the photo at the time.

It is very exciting to re-discover some long forgotten "Sleeping Beauties"

Here are a few more that have finally come to see the light...

Thurso At Night

With the nights drawing shorter and shorter I did another little night shoot this week... Here are some of Thurso`s great nighttime views...

RB

I am very much trying to catch up with the blog, but work has to come first. Here is just a quick flash of my latest "Feature" on RedBubble. I will try to keep you updated about my ongoing features and challenges...

More Choice

I am pleased to tell you that my art is now not only available as Greeting Cards and Canvas Prints, but as Mounted, Laminated & Framed Prints as well as Posters too!

So if you want to grab some original, award winning art, this is your chance :-)

Here is a showcase of my nearly 80 "Featured" pictures that were featured in at least one group in Redbubble (many have been featured in multiple gorups) as well as being amongst in the "Top 10" of group challenges or challenge winners.

Old News

In my current "Its hip to be square" mood, I have trailled to lots of my old images and have found some really good ones to transfere to a square format (as well as some nice other stuff that had somehow gone under and been laying on the drives completely forgotten...)

Here are some of the stuff that I have "hipped" up... Some more "Oldies but Goodies" later...

Clearout

I have had a massive clearout and now I have various photography books and some other photographic equipment for sale. If you want a detailed list, please email me at
Martina at MartinaCross.com

If I have some time I will list it all here later on...

And before you think that I might be quitting photography.... no I wont :-)))

Its Hip To Be Square!

This will be the last image you see with my old logo Martina Cross Photography on. I have updated the logo to reflect on my MartinaCross.com website (Martinacrossphotography. co.uk is no more as it was such a handful to type) and to make it a tincy bit more difficult for my images to be ilegally used by others. So out with the old and in with the new...

May I formally introduce you to the new logo!

I always liked square images, but hardly used this format myself. Well.... this is about to change now. Watch this space!

Nighttime Photography Presentation

Yesterday evening it I had another turn at giving a presentation at Thurso Camera Club.

This time I was asked to talk about "Nighttime Photography". I had prepared a short 20 minute presentation where I explained about the essentials & basics and then I showed the best shots of my "Nighttime" portfolio.

After that the members were encouraged to have a go themselves at trying to capture night photos at Scrabster harbour. Quite a few went along and for a short time the harbour are was buzzing with folks running around with tripods.

Weatherwise the night could hardly be any better, with some really good glassy reflections!

Here are a few of the images that I have captured...

2010

The new year is barely a few days old, and I am back from my DSLR-less holiday.

The past year was very kind to me, yet again and in the coming year I have set myself two major goals to reach, but more of this matter later on...

Meanwhile I hope you will enjoy coming back to visit my blog and see whats going on and what I am up to photography wise...

The new year spoilt me with great views already, I will upload them when I got another spare minute... or three...

Surfin` North has moved!

I am delighted to tell you that the "Surfin` North" blog has been moved and is now hosted by wrodpress.com
I feel that I have more artistic liberty on the other platform.
Thanks to everybody who is following me already, you will have the option to subscribe to the new blog on wordpress so you do not miss an update and can keep on the ball to see what is going on.
See you there....

http://surfingnorth.wordpress.com/

Flying Sky

This lightning fast dog proofes a real photographic challenge, nevertheless, he is such good fun and we wouldnt want to miss him at all!