We asked you to share your favourite locations to shoot urban landscapes. Here’s a selection of our favourites
Brian Morgan – London
Instagram: @briantchapster
I travel regularly to London but must wake early to ensure minimal river traffic and ideal light, as well as a relatively calm river. Also, watching London wake up can produce more compelling shots. I never tire of shooting the capital.
Rob Padley – The Midlands
Website: www.robpadley.com Instagram: @robpadley_photography
I first started making night photographs while living in the USA. As an outsider my eye was drawn to the quirky industrial and urban landscapes that surround San Francisco and I set myself a goal to photograph these unseen and overlooked areas. I developed my technique by taking road trips to neglected towns and photographing through the night while teaching myself the technicalities of traditional architecture photography. This was a lonely time for me, and my intention was to capture this feeling in the photographs.
Upon moving back to the UK in 2014 I continued taking photographs at night, focusing on the post-industrial towns of the Midlands, developing my style further, and working on a consistent theme to tie the photos together.
I’m drawn to empty streets in unusual areas such as industrial estates, devoid of life but still containing clues to human activity. I use the available ambient light and street lights to create a feeling of loneliness and isolation, while maintaining a sense of mystery and interest to the viewer through classic compositional practices and technical methods.
My goal for this series is to produce a set of images that invite scrutiny upon overlooked, neglected environments by using a consistent compositional theme. By highlighting the similarities of the locations, I wish to emphasise the differences. My favourite towns so far have been Stoke, Grimsby and Leicester. Next stop: Hull! For all these images I used a Canon EOS 6D with 45mm Canon TS-E lens.
Jael Ocana – Aberdeen
Website: jaelocanaphotography.myportfolio.com Instagram: @brokenpics.shots Facebook: www.facebook.com/brokenpics.shots LinkedIn: jaelocanaphotography
Even though London has infinite possibilities in terms of urban landscapes, unfortunately due to distance I’m not able to go as often as I would like. However, I chose Aberdeen, the city where I live, as the place to develop my style a bit more. I realised there aren’t many urban photographers up here because mainly they shoot landscapes, so Aberdeen hasn’t been portrayed much. The possibilities are endless here, with its mixture of old and new constructions and lots of brutalist buildings. I cannot explain why I like brutalism and abandoned, old buildings. And in this city, there is a mixture o
