1 Face Rug

feminine

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I love the feminine narture of this rug, in a way it is under-stated.

2 Richard Hutten Rug

traditon plus

3 Richard Hutten Carpet

tradition linear

The mixture of tradition and subvertion of it bey introducing thel ines which are ultramodern, obviuslly it required a lot of skill to produce these carpets.

4 Sun Carpet Tile

carpet tile

Very colourful but what make this design this carpert tile work is that ,it is put in a complemetary setting.

5 Pears Rug

beige green

6 Carlton Pearson Rug

colourful

7 Richard Pearson Earth Rug

flowers

We have seen floral before but these designs are adopted for the ttewntyfirst century and are the very opposite of traditional rug design.

7 Grafitti Carpet

graffitti

Amazing how grafitti is how tamed and has been brought in indoors.  I need to do a graffitti series one of these days.

9 Leaves Rug

leaves

A very countryside inspired rug, I am loving it.

10 Abstact  Art Rug

abstact rug

Very colourful and wee have seen these colours in abstract art and I love the different geometric shapes.

11 Ouside the Box Carpert Tile

outside the box

It is always better to see these rugs in their natural setting, they yellow interiors suits the room to a tea. I like this one and its name conveys the concept, think outside the box.

12 Fields Carpets

fields

A combianation of the countryside and the and the tradition and fields concepts, in a way you do not want to walk on this one.

12 Akira Isogawa Red Florals Carpet

rug and white

13 Akira Red Rug

flowers on red carpet

Red carpet with white tree shapes.

14 Akira Lemon Floral Rug

lemon

Akira Isogawa is a designer based in Australia and his designs are very bold and very fasion abased just because that is his background I love the lmon with white and black, it has an unfinished look which is the point he was making.  in all truth these designs belong in shops rather than anywhere else , I would like to see these on cat walks.

15 Wood Rug

ring

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Simple concept well executed, it plays on wooded flors by having a wooden carpert.

16 City View Carpet

urban

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One of my favoourit view is to watch a city from an areal view, it is amazing  see what can be seen from above.

17 Beige, Black and blue Rug

modern

I love the colour combination , the bold colours really complement the look, who would have thought that orange would work so well.

18 Door Carpet

door rug

Did they just photocopy the door, very innovative, in restrospect, this is such an obvious idea.

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Five Wonderful Office Interior Design Ideas

1 Wonderfactory Office Interior Design

red chairs

bookshelves

board room

desk

relaxation area

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The comibination of bright colours like yellow and red and chendaliers and leather chairs which have an antique feel makes the offices very eclectic but it works as an overall interior design.  It is amazing that offices have been so very conventional in their designs.  In a way it is not surprising that it is the creeative instries which are leading the way to better design, given the amount of time people spend in offices it is a good idea to provide a visually stimulating environment to work.

I am such a fan of the blue murial walls and the fact the they have partitions to see on the otherside.  I am a fan of the Morrocan sitting area, well I mean there must be a temptation to take long lunches in such a workplace.  Umbrellas in the lights are so very good, a bit uncessary but they do look good.

2)FIMD Office Interior Design idea

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gym area

desks

Is it a fad to have very low sitting or is it just because many people are geitting used to sushi bar sittings?  This design relies on the use of  blue, green and white and technically speaking this is a place of higher learnining by Cilve Wilkinson Architects.

This is provided Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles and it has an acquatic feel and the mosaic tiles are breathtaking.  I love the ceailing with palm paintings.

3 Three Rings Offices

This is a design by Because We Can design team and for offices for 3 Rings in san Francisco. I just like the name because we can and it very positive, have you ever been to a football match and someone show boated skills without any particular cause just because they can? I love thae fact that they were given a commission to be over the top  and they are that.

antque space

bike place

boardroom with mirrors and lamps

partition

different views

I many ways there is a lot of similarities between this design and the Wonderfactory except that this one has an obssession with mechanical gears.  Look at the over the top lights and many mirrors, the colours are a little bit less loud but the walls still demand attention, there is also a more muscular feel to this office with the pool table and a period map. But there is a contrat betwwen the past and the now.

4 NClud Interior Office Design

couch

bookshelves

L shaped

upper floor

This office design in this NCLUD office is a lot less over the top relying on scraped walls and dark wooden foors, in fact it has a minimalist and funtional feel to it.  The furniture is all black and with the couch which is cream which yellow, in fact the whole office has a feel of a house but on a much bigger scale. It is spacious and very ultra modern on its design.

5 Selga Cano Office Design

desks

glass

interior

outer view

sideview

Someone claimed that this was the coolest office ever, well I will let you be the judge, in a was the design is a little bit predictable as far as the colour combination of yellow and white and green but the orange sides take the biscuit.  In a way this office interacts with the space it is placed, the fact that half the office is underground and the part is glass on three sides.

I like the demarcation of white and yellow to match the glass and roof border. The inteirior office design is only half the story because it interacts with the trees it is surrounded by very well. Have you noticed that the leafs will over the seasons to match with the colour scheme.  The gravel next to the front glass given this a well rounded feel.

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1 Vintage Firefighter Gasoline Ads

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Can you believe that they actually tried to brand a commodity like gasoline, oil is oil , especially if the price goes up.  I do not know why Texaco and the other ” seven sisters” advertise given that they are one company?

2 Vintage Magazine Ads Drawing

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Well, there are a millon and one other things you can be in demand for with women, but drawing?

3 Vintage Medical Newspaper Ads

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This is so funny because the medical gum massage never really tok off. I love these ventage medical ads.

4 Vintage 70s Car Ads

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How can they compare this to a spirited woman who needs to be tamed? Was there still sexism in the seventies?

5 Vintage Cereal Newspaper Ads

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Well do you need a movie to buy? well in those days people might had time to watch

6 Vintage Ads for cigarattes

I laugh that the fact that they thought people had time to read the advert at all. They gave you reasons why it was costlier, well since you will pay more to die.

7 Retro Magazine Meat ads

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The illustrator tried very hard to show that the girl was looking forward to a plate of meat.

8 Vintage Fashion Magazine Ads- Men’s shirts

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It is funny that they claim to think about these men when they are designing these shirts but that sounds daft given how awflul they look by today’s standards.

9 Vintage Ads Do Not Be Bald

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It promises a cure for baldness but I guess it is not that good given that it is not available today. It sounds like a novel Idea.

10 Vintage Magazine ads For Stokings

I thinks this works on female insecurites really, now women have to worry about whether their husbands do not like runs on their stockings.

11 Vintage Beer Ads

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This a post prohibition ad saying that beer belongs, well they would not have had to advertise is there was no threat to beer.

11 Vintage Ads about Television making Children Smarter

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This a very ironic ad because people have not really been made smarter by television, instead they have been made much slower, people do not read these days but watch the box.

13 Vintage Drug Education Ads

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It is amazing that they believed that there were authoutity figures the kids could talk to, this must have been pre 1960s because kids do not want to listen to any of these people today.

14 Vintage 70s Ads- Blaxploitaion

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Well if you want to see w=how bad the blaxploitation era film making was just look at this film and ask yourself what is going on?  A racist bigot and a soul brother being one being? This was still advertised in the late eighties.

15 Vintage Salt Ad

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Is there even a connection between goiters and salt? Medical ads are some of the funniest ones

16 Vintage ads claming men do not beat their wives these days

I do not know about you but was beating wives a tradition in the past?  well females do not bore your husbands at meal times, just because you are not getting the beats.

17 Vintage Fashionads- one peice suit

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This is n early eighties ad, but why is this man standing next to a pole, maybe this sort of trouser may come back to fashion in the future.  You can imagine this guy getting into Studio 54 or any other nightclub in New York City.

18 Vintage MC Hammer Ads

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If this fashion ever comes back just call me.  People will never wear late 1980s fashion again.

19 Vintage Medical- Malaria Ads

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Is this a sexiest ad, why is mrs mosquito distributing malaria?

20  Vintage Pillow ads

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A pillow a perfect gift for the family is a pillow?  Look at how the husband is cuddling the pillow, Can such an ad appear today?

Remember the vintage propaganda posters we posted a liitle while back, these goes well with those.

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1) Clamp Creative Bookshelf

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I like this idea of this bookshelve, it somehow reduces books to their industrial use becuuse this bench is often used in woodwark factories.

2 Parametric Bookshelves

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This is a combined effort between Columbia and a factory in Italy, Tiazolli. I am a big fan of this design but it can be used to display shoes in boutiques.

3 Ceiling Bookshelf

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When you think about it a ceiling is one of the most underused places and this is a good use of the space.

4 Man punshing a bookshelf

5 man carrying a bookshelve

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You have to love these just because it is charming to see, one of the problems of being a book lover, you eventually run out of spaces to hold you books,

5 Creative Custom built bookshelves

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I like how the bookshelves fits into the two walls of a room, well the owner has to love boooks or will be left with too much spare room.

6 Bibliothèque Zelli  Creative Bookcase

This is an ultra modern bookcase with a snowflake design , I like the chair which goes with it because it very much complements it.

7  Diagonal bookshelf

source: Gianni Botsford,

This bookshelve is designed to fill the whole wall, but the beauty of this creative custom bookshelves is that it does not draw attention to itself but is very functional yet make a good statement.

8 Blurred Bookcase

It has the efffect of a drunk who is weak at the knees it is a good design.

7) Qoudes Booshelves Creative Custom Bookshelves

source Quodes it is designed by Alfredo Häberli , I like it but is it better without holding books, it seems a shame to pack it with books.

8 Equation Bookshelf

This is a very mathematical bookshelve and it still retains its prettyness.

9 Extending bookshelves

This is elegengant, I like it when it is closed and it is a little bit surprising that it could look this way when opened.

9)  Cardboard Book Shelves

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Eric Guiomar, this is a very innovative use and crative use of cardboard by designer Eric Guimar.

10 Ceiling Bookshelf

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Creative use of spare space, I have so many books I have to look into this option.

11 Sexy bookshelf

Designer Arun Kumar Francis,you might just spell it out,

12 Framed  shaped book cases

I like the way these creative and customised  bookshelves mess with your perception. You do ot expect whole books to be framed , may be the cover page but not the whole book.

13 Curved Bookshelf

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This is so shaped like a woman’sbody figure, brilliant.  Remind’s me of Wandel Castle’s three seater stools

14 America bookshelves and Bookcases

Normally you see Africa being depicted in Art, but to have the United States of America represented like this is a triumph.

15 Juxtaposed Religion

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This is one expensive bookshelve, but is especially customised to hold these books.  It cost something like $25000 but it will become a classic.

16 Pyramid Bookshelve

17 Takebook Contemporary Bookshelves and Bookcases

These bookshelves and cases are enhanced by the different colour combinations, I am a fan, I like the red and the orange and white.

18 Book Cases sorted by Colour

This is an brilliant way of sorting a book selve, It is quite easy to achieve and it is brilliant to look at.

19 Balancing Bookshelves

This is really getting very creative, but I like it, event though I do not believe my knowledge is balanced.

20 Oragami Bookshelves

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This looks spectacular, well I could have thought of that , I love the colour which a mixture of white and silver, very silky

21 Bass Bookshelves

This is really a cd rack but it can be used as a bookshelves

22 Infinity Bookshelve and Bookcase

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I am curious how do they move the books, but it is such a loop, it has no beginning and no ending.

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Five Modern Houses Designs With Twists

1)Monte Silo House

This is a design by Gigaplex , it is built for a bachelor and can accomodate guests of the bachelor. The design is for two corrugated silos put together, I like the placement of the beds.

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2 Lake Austin House

This is a redesign by Bercy Chen Studios who were asked to redesign the house to make it more reflective of Lake Austin views, I like the open nature of the design and I like the open nature of the interiors. This modern house design is designed to make the most of the views of the lake, I wonder why they thought they need ed water next to the house given that it is so close to the river.?

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3 MC1 Modern House Design

MC1 house by Jules Robles, this is a design in the jungles of Costa Rica and it makes a good contrat between the ultra modern design and the lush environment around it. I like the black and white colours

4Chameleon House

This house has managed to course a bit of a stair in the Lake Michigan area, I do not know why, but the is somthing quite appealing and also unconmfortable about this house, some people say that it is an eye sore, or that it resembles a prison, and many have questioned why it is called a chameleon, but there is a subtle change in its apperance given the weather and the light it is exposed to.

5 Aoki Jun Modern Design House

This is such a radical house design, I want to ask the designers why they wanted to hide the house in the mountains. In a way it hides itself from the envorionment , it is truly a macho design, for some reason I like it but really I would have liked it drawing more attention to itself. That pool is just spectacular and the views are just heavenly.

The water feautres have been grand on these houses.

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Having enjoyed optical illusions by Julian Beever, it is time to now look at the Spring time photographs

1 Springtime Picture In a Monastery

spring in a garden

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I like the colours which have come out, in this beautiful Spring picture, Spring is really about colour.

2 Butterfly At Spring

butterfly at spring

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Being in a garden this time of year is great you really expirience the different colours.

3 Pictures Of Beautiful Spring Flowers

colurul sping fllowers

Well I am not sure if this is a random picking of flowers or whether the flowers we designed this way, but still beautiful.

4 Horses At Springtime

Spring horse

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5 Carnal in Holland

spring time in a Canal

These are really the scenes one can expect in springtime, a butterfly on a blooming flower, this is so magical.Well, spring brings out a lot of people to enjoy the outdoors because of the sunshine.

6 Photos of houses on a Hill

Sping up a hill

Remember the castles we did, this is very much in that vain, beautiful.

7 colourful Trees And A River

trees at spring

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How do you know it is sping, people go outdoors, this scene is magical I love the sunshine.

8 Pictures of a Beautiful Bridge

beautiful bridge at spring

I love the colours of the trees, very romantic

9 Springtime Reflections On A River

spring glory

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I do not really need to comment on this photograph it has it all, the reflection on the water is magical.

10 Photographs of A Sunrise In Spring

Early Morning Spring

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You have to wake up a little bit early to experience something like this, this photo carries the atmosphere of early mornings.

11 Sailing and Sunset In Spring

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Beautiful scene of the sun set, It is this time of year when you get to enjoy the longer days and can appreciate the sunsets.

12 Pictures of a Farm at Spring

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This is a really good time to get to the countryside and enjoy the sunshine

13 Birds  At Spring

birds love spring

Birds migraite to enjoy the sunshine and spring, well spring has a sound to it.

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Julian Beever Street Art 3-D Optical Illusion

1 Christmas Card Optical Illusion

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Julian Beever is British, that is why he has that traditional red post box. This is a very good picture just because it is so believable. I like the candle.

2 Julian Beever Factory

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Simply spectacular, he transports you mind to another world just using oone layer of brick, I love the pole.

3 Julian Beveer Mirror Opitcal Illusion

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He has done many illusions with himself as the subject, it is good that he has not shied away from depicting himself.

He must spend a lot of time getting the colours right, to make everything so realistic.

4 Waterfall Optical Illusion

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The details stell us that this is not optical illusion but reality, or is it?

5 Upside Down Illusion

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This is a very ambitious picture and it has a sureal quality to it.

6 Julian Beever Boat Resize

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Look at how he is able to have a reflection of the boat, this is very realistic

7 Fountain 3d Optical Illusion

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He must spend a lot of time getting the colours right, to make everything so realistic

8 Julian Beever Spiderman

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Look at the wall he is kneeling on,

9 Rembrandt Otical Illusion

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He is a very cheeky.

10 Frog 3 d Optical Illusion

You feel like rescuing the child from the giant frog

11 3-D Chalk Art Brick

It would have been interesting to see how the oublic reacted to the hole and the bricks, but you can see how they are avoinding everything.

12 Julian Beever river

It takes days to draw something this extravagant, I wonder if he gets permission from local councils to do this, you are always tempted to believe that the raft is real.

14 Laptop 3d Optical Illusion

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This is done on the strnd in London, he should have asked sony to sponsor this picture.

15 The Sun Optical Illusion

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I told you he was a cheeky chapie, he calls himself pavement Picasso, well it rhymes and it might be true.

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18 Unique Wall Clocks and Unsual Watches

1 ) Opus One Watch

source The idea of separating the hors from the minutes works very well, I love the reverse side this design.

2 Dutch Watch

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3 Polanti Watch

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4 Tourbillion Watch

credit This works by revealing the inner mechanics of the watch, the copper make a good contrast with the silver.

5 Dolce and Gabbana Watch

credit Dolce and Gobbana aare obsessed with gold really, but this changes the expectations of a watch.

6 No Display Watch

For a time in the eighties digital watches threatened to replace the traditional watch designs. I like the fact that it does not have a display area.

7 Director Clock

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8 Heart Beat Watch Design

9 Prada Phone And Watch

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Maybe the shape of watches will change in the future, as they are intergrated with other

10) Unique Wall Clock 1o1

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11) Picture Star

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12) Icon Clock

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13) Timeless Watch

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14) Flip Unique Wall Clock

This has been done before but it is the suggestion of how it is done which is different. I like the dials around the clock.

15) Digi Mech Clock

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14 ) The Gear Clock

I still do not now how this gear clock really works but it does look good.

15) Tik Tak wall Clock

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15 )Nava Clock

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16) Aqua Clock

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17) Denis Guidone Watch

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The use of the colours red , black and white is so outstanding yet simple. It is akmost impossibke to tell the time without someone teaching you the way to stell

18) Stark Wrapped Watches

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It is amazing how Phillipe Starck is able to enter new fields of Design and still be outstanding, can we stop him entering new fields please.

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Long Exposure Photography

This waterfall long exposure photograph of a waterfall really captures the imagitions, for a minute you expect this to be a real waterfall.

I loce that you can see that the star were moving in a circular motion.

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You have too love the colours created by this fireworks display.

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I love love sunsets and look at the colour of the clouds that is so good.

The GLC ( Greater London Council) buildling always looks a bit dull and this is an explosion of light.

The combination of snow, rainbowns and falling stars is spectacular

Amusement parks are another great place to capture using Long Exposure photography.

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Is this a red light light district? The bill boards all add to the city centre mood? Is that times square?

The floodlights on top of the building just rock, this is a breath taking photograph.

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Highways are some of the best places to capture this technique

Great range of colours due to fire worl display, this is a great photograph you might feel that it is photoshopped beecause it has an other worldly feel.

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I love the colour which results from this night time phograph, the problem with this technique is that the real scenery will be an anti -climax from that has been produced.

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This another example of a seea front, waves appear as mist, this is so good.

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I love the fact that a mist is created why waves are captured using long exposure photography.

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