Durham At Dusk

30/09/2022

We are getting back into the season of dark skies and astrophotography again! It's amazing how many stars you can see in Durham city, it is sometimes even possible to faintly make out the Milky Way from Observatory Hill if you know where to look!

18mm | 180 secs | f/4 | ISO64

27/09/2022

A lovely orange glow in the sky looking up Old Elvet towards Elvet Bridge

70mm | 30 secs | f/5 | ISO64

25/09/2022

I love this view down Bow Lane past towards Kingsgate Bridge at night

60mm | 30 secs | f/16 | ISO125

24/09/2022

Here's an old one from March this year that I never got around to posting after taking a few really good ones the same evening. But what a stunning sunset over Kingsgate Bridge!

18mm | 1/125s | f/5 | ISO80

22/09/2022

A rare opportunity to get some shots of High Force Waterfall illuminated at night. Sadly too much cloud for any Milky Way though.

14mm | 30 secs | f/2.8 | ISO400

20/09/2022

A beautiful view up Owengate towards Durham Cathedral at sunset.

60mm | 1/20s | f/4 | ISO64

12/09/2022

Lovely to see Durham Cathedral reflecting on the legacy of Her Majesty the Queen

14mm | 4 secs | f/5.6 | ISO64

22/08/2022

Stormy skies over Durham Cathedral

35mm | 1/5sec | f/5.6 | ISO800

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16/08/2022

Another stunning sunset, this one from Monday night, taken outside on Old Elvet. I was still over by Maiden Castle when the sky started to turn orange, so I had to really walk quickly to get to Old Elvet before the colour faded. Shame about all the parked cars!

Nikon Z7ii + Nikon Z 14-24 f/2.8 | 18mm | 1/25s | f/7.1 | ISO64

14/08/2022

Always wish I had a chance to take some photos here earlier in the year whilst all the trees were in flower, but the golden glow of the stone at the Old Durham Gardens still looks fantastic in a summer evening.

30mm | 1/60s | f/13 | ISO80

12/08/2022

I have always wanted to get a photo of the full moon rising or setting over the cathedral from this view point on the bridge over the A690 near Gilesgate, however there are only 3 dates in the entire year where the orbit of the moon takes it near to the cathedral, and only two which can be photographed (as the third occurs much earlier in the night when it is too dark to be able to capture both the moon and the cathedral in the same photo).
Luckily, I discovered just in time that this morning is the best of those two occasions, with the moon setting in the sky just past the cathedral just before the sun starts to rise. It also coincided with the last supermoon of the year - the Sturgeon Moon, so the moon was especially large and vivid coloured.
This is a composite image of 7 photographs all taken of the exact same view, each taken two and a half minutes apart, which when combined together reveals the path of the supermoon as it sets in the sky above Durham Cathedral

Nikon Z7ii + 70-200 f/2.8 | 135mm | 1/2sec | f/6.3 | ISO64

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11/08/2022

Prebends Bridge always offers such a good view for sunsets over Durham, the vividness of the trees looks stunning in the summer months.

21mm | 1/160s | f/10 | ISO640