Cycling the Route des Grandes Alpes, France – Photo By Simon Kirwan. The Route des Grandes Alpes is a tourist itinerary through the French Alps between Lake Geneva and the French Riviera passing over all the high passes of the Alps, many of which feature in the Tour de France. The road starts at Thonon-les-Bains and climbs via Les Gets and Cluses. It then heads to Saint-Gervais and Megève, over the Col des Saisies (1,633 m). It then passes through Beaufort, Bourg-Saint-Maurice and onto Val-d’Isère. The road then crosses the Col de l’Iseran (2,770 m).
The road then passes through Modane and over the Col du Galibier (2,642 m) and then the Col du Lautaret to La Grave. The road heads to Briançon and then over the Col d’Izoard (2,361 m). The road then heads through Embrun and over the Col de Vars (2,111 m) and onto Barcelonnette, where the choice can be made to continue south over the highest pass of all, the Col de la Bonette (2,802 m)or the Col de la Cayolle (2,327 m). The original end of the Route was Nice but is now Menton, reached via the cols of Sainte-Martin (1,500 m), Turini (1,607 m) and Castillon (707 m). (Wikipedia)
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Nov 25, 2015 | Comments Off on Karst Landscape, El Torcal de Antequera Natural Park, Sierra del Torcal, Spain
Karst Landscape, El Torcal de Antequera Natural Park – Photo By Simon Kirwan. El Torcal de Antequera is a nature reserve in the Sierra del Torcal mountain range located south of the city of Antequera, in the province of Málaga off the A45 road in Andalusia, Spain. It is known for its unusual landforms, and […]
Nov 27, 2015 | Comments Off on Melbourne, Australia from Eureka Skydeck 88
Melbourne, Australia from Eureka Skydeck 88 – Photo By Simon Kirwan. View of Melbourne, Australia, showing Flinders Street Railway Station, St Paul’s Cathedral & Federation Square, from the Eureka Skydeck 88, the highest public vantage point in a building in the Southern Hemisphere at 285 m (935 ft).
Simon Kirwan has worked as a professional photographer for over 25 years, in various commercial and advertising studios in the north of England, until setting up Lightbox Photography in 1996. Having worked in most photographic genres over the years, since 1996 he has concentrated on location work, both in the UK and overseas, combining personal travel projects with commissioned commercial work for a diverse range of clients, covering aerial, architecture, event, editorial, publishing, corporate and lifestyle marketing.
He specialises in organising logistics for overseas projects, and has worked in France, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Sweden and Denmark, as well as locations all over the United Kingdom. Aerial photography is carried out from a network of airfields across the UK, primarily based at City Airport Manchester, and utilises image geo-tagging for precise identification of locations.
In 2000, Simon Kirwan was named The Observer Outdoor Photographer of the Year and has travelled extensively in Europe, USA, Asia and Africa, photographing people, places and mountains for The Lightbox Picture Library, which now contains over 20,000 images. He is the author and photographer of a series of regional landscape and aerial photography books for Myriad Books, and is equally at home in corporate offices, construction sites, light aircraft, mountain summits, live music concerts, convention centres, trade shows, exhibition venues, or sport stadia. Simon Kirwan is the official in-house photographer at BT Convention Centre Liverpool, and covers many corporate events, conventions and conferences at the venue for event organisers, and for ACC Liverpool, operators of BTCC.
Simon Kirwan has trekked in the Himalayas, driven across East Africa in a truck, and photographed the cities and landscapes of Europe, USA and New Zealand. He can make all the necessary arrangements for a location photo-shoot, including models, stylists, assistants, locations, fixers, pilots, aircraft, flights, vehicles, and accommodation.
Simon Kirwan also specialises in photography of the built environment, from the ground and the air. He has carried out aerial photography in the United Kingdom, Holland, Belgium and Poland, and has travelled all over the UK photographing properties for a major international hotel chain. All photography is produced using the latest state-of-the-art digital camera gear, and utilises a fully digital workflow from image capture to client approval and distribution via the Lightbox online image management system, providing instant access to high-resolution images for clients and media partners.
The Lightbox is one of the UK’s longest-established photographic web sites, originally set up in 1995. Simon Kirwan is a member of the Association of Photographers (AOP) and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
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