John Waller Photography... the blog » DPReview http://www.johnwaller.co.uk/blog Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:03:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Blurry Taxis – Winner! http://www.johnwaller.co.uk/blog/archives/151 http://www.johnwaller.co.uk/blog/archives/151#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:04:06 +0000 John http://www.johnwaller.co.uk/blog/?p=151 dpreview.com you'll probably know that they've got a new section on their site devoted to challenges. It seems that there's challenge sites all over the place and dpreview.com have finally caught up. I thought I'd get involved and was very pleasantly surprised with the result...]]> When I looked at one of the open challenges a couple of weeks, titled (rather specifically) “Blurry taxis”, I thought I had the perfect shot for it. So imagine my delight when I stopped by yesterday to see that, out of 240 entries, my image came first. You can see the shot, as well as the other entries, here.

As for the shot itself, it was taken on an exceptionally cold night on Times Square when I was there on holiday in November ‘08. It’s another example of when my trusty little SLR-ZOOM Gorillapod came in handy – I simply clamped it to the railings and waited for taxis to come by on either side of the road at the right time. Another night photography shoot when my gloves came in very handy (excuse the pun).

It’s one of my favourite shots from my trip, so I was really pleased to see that others like it too. I’m planning on putting a short New York travel report together (it’s one of the many things on my to-do list) but in the meantime you can check out my NY galleries in the travel section of my johnwaller.co.uk site.

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