David Tries Photography

Back to the most beautiful place on Earth after 4 years.

Recommended whisky pairing: Talisker Skye

Second time in Iceland, and the first time seeing and (trying to) photograph the Northern Lights!

Went for a darker theme with these photos, because Iceland is just hauntingly beautiful like that.

Tried playing around with long exposures in this one, with varying results (as you can see!).

Still was quite fun to learn how to use Lightroom to touch them up. Plus, a photography session in Liverpool was long overdue!

Not the greatest of days, but glad i went out anyway. Not as vibrant and bright as imagined they would turn out, but i think it adds an eerie beauty to the scenes anyway.

Edited this whilst listening to 9 Crimes by Damien Rice, if you’re wanting a soundtrack. :)

David xx

Aberdeen has been my home for pretty much 7 years now.

These are just some of the spots around Aberdeen that have caught my eye over the last few weeks.

Plenty more to be added in due time.

David x

Not my proudest work, but this was more of an experimentation with editing and basically playing around with Lightroom.

Much of the photos are similar to the first album i created where i was just testing out the camera - which made me realise that i need to expand my landscapes.

Inspired by a picture that i’d seen on Instagram (possibly @finko, can’t really remember whose account it was on), i set out with one goal in mind: shoot the Bow Fiddle Rock in Portknockie.

Managed to get a somewhat decent shot, but this trip made me realise one thing: i needed to get a tripod. Uneven ground and the pebbled beach was my worst enemy that day. This was maybe shot 72.

I was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On my recent trip back home, i decided to explore my hometown through my camera. Here are some hidden (and not so hidden) gems that i found wondering about KL town.

I like to think of it as ‘re-discovering’ KL. I explored all the places that i’d never really appreciated or noticed while i was growing up.

Trip to Isle of Skye in 2018 - a weekend that has come to be known as the Party in Portree.

I’d been to the Isle of Skye previously with my family in the summer of graduation. Skye is honestly the most beautiful place i’ve ever been to in my life - the landscape and the mountains were something i’d never seen before in my life. Kind of had a very Iron Islands-esque feel (Game of Thrones reference).

These are just some of the snaps that i took whilst there. Plenty more to come in the future as i will undoubtedly be paying many more visits to Skye.

This was a gentle walk post-Burns supper. Kirsty, Adam and I had all agreed to take a hike the next morning (inebriated, no doubt) which turned out to be a pretty good shout.

Just at the turn of the season, I managed to get some nice shots of some trees, that had a very Christmas card-esque feel. Then of course there was the actual monument itself, which i’m sure there is a historical significance behind that i can’t quite remember just now.

A relatively impromptu trip to Ullapool with Ellie K, involving kidnapping Aaron. :)

Although we didn’t manage to get the best fish and chips in the world, we compromised with some only really good fish and chips. Also, on the way back we found a hiking trail (the name of which escapes me), that explains the unusual greenery in this album.

This was literally taken a few days after i bought my new toy.

A collection of trial-and-error snapshots, getting used to the settings and a hike up Alt Na Criche with my trusty companion Aaron (you will never see him because he hates having his picture taken).