A shot of Smeaton’s Tower taken on my recent trip to England. Such great memories of Plymouth!! The Hoe is realy something, with fantastic views out accross Plymouth Sound and Drake’s Island. Really Worth a visit if you are in Devon or travelling further South West to Cornwall.
Thanks for taking a look,
Mike Hope
Monopoly Board Game Compendium
Taken on the fly at the most ecletic english pub in Winchester called the Black Boy. The pub is just full of the interesting eclectic and bizarre and that’s just the clientel! Pay it a visit, it is fascinating and you won’t want to leave…
Thank you for taking a look 🙂
Hi everyone,
I have just finished saving a new look for my 500px photo site and thought you might like to take a look. I think it has a much raunchier look to it and I particularly like the background effects that come on from random photos. Let me know what you think and thanks for stopping by…
PS. this is still in Beta so it may have some quirks. Hope you like it.
Mike Hope
This old coke can keeps coming back on me, so I took it back into lightroom and reworked it a little in black and white. Now I think it has a little more depth…maybe!! what do you think??
Hi All,
I was just checking through some interesting articles on Street Photography when I came across a piece in the MessyNessy blog about a lady photographer
from Chicago that died recently at the age of 83 years. She apparantly was very private and never shown her photographs to anyone outside her family.  Luckily the negatives came up at an auction and were bought by an historical hobbyist, John Maloof. Well the results speak for themselves and the lady, Vivien Maier, is a street photography legend. You can find out more and check some of Vivien Maier’s great work on Messy Nessy’s blog
Vivien Maiers Photographs – The Legend That Never Was
There is now a fascinating documentary Finding Vivien Maier you can check out the official trailer on YouTube
Finding Vivien Maier – official Trailer
I am sure you will aggree this is fascinating stuff. The quality of the photographs are phenomenal!! Makes you long for the days when RollieFlex ruled and black and white was recording history (still in manufacture by the way)
Thanks for stopping by,
Mike Hope
I was just inspired by another blog, Jean’s Photography, as there was a picture of a later Scrabble Board that I was admiring. I remebered this shot I took at the Ojai Resort and Spa of an old scrabble board they had on display. So I thought I would post it again. Hope you like it!!
Mike Hope
Lou E Luey’s on the Boardwalk, Redondo Beach. This was the old banquet hall. Now closed. Took this last weekend with the Fujifilm X20 and post grunge HDR effect. UPDATE: Sold the Fuji X-20 for Canon EOS-M really like it! Interchangeable lenses and now faster with the firmware update. I am eyeing the Fujifilm XM-1 though as you can see from my last post
Malaga Cove Plaza, Spanish Style brick and archway. Dates from the 1930’s. Taken with the Fuji X-20 walk around camera on Sunday May 5th. Just trying to get used to the Fuji. It is different from using the SLR and fun.
Red Door reworked from a photo I took on Saturday with the new Fuji X-20. Post Avant Garde filters. It is the old  Lou E Luey’s which is now closed. Would make a great bar-restaurant!! Any takers?
Thanks for stopping by,
Mike Hope
Hi everyone, Â I have just launched some of my photo art on Fine Art America. Check it out and let me know what you think! It is a great community for photographers and artists to show off their work. Â If you have some great photos or art you want to display give it a go, it’s free!!
Thanks for stopping by and check out the photos at fineartamerica.
If you’d like to purchase any of my prints or just check them out online check out the link below…
Mike Hope Photo Art
Thanks again for stopping by,
Mike Hope
Mike Hope on Redondo Beach 