1 Year Of Digital Bus Photography!

Today (16th February 2009) I celebrate 1 year of digital bus photography! On the 16th of February 2008 I ventured out to Portsmouth to take the Gosport Ferry to Gosport when one of my friends convinced me to take my camera along (view my very first digital bus photograph!).

I have used the camera before on the 19th January 2008 when I visited my local Dairy Crest Milk Float depot. Since then my interest in bus photograph has gone from strength to strength and I have now got one of the largest collection of photographs of Southern England buses. I have tried train photography but I am not very good at it (view my photographs of the new steam locomotive Tornado!) therefore I only have a few train photographs.

My highlight of last year was officially taking the first ever photograph of a new Stagecoach South Alexander Dennis Enviro 300 for route 23 while it was on a test run in Purbrook. This was by chance as I was a passenger in a car at the time and had to take it through the windscreen! I think it came out quite good. So it seemed right to take a photograph of one of these buses for a special anniversary photograph, you can view this at the top of this post. I would like to thank all my supporters out there and I hope you still enjoy looking at my photographs. Lets hope for another good year to come!

New National Express Coaches!

At long last Portsmouth have recieved new coaches for National Express services! This is because Tellings Golden Miller have pulled out for some reason with Lucketts Travel taking over National Express duties and Stagecoach South taking over the Hoverbus. Twelve new Caetano Levantes were brought in to operate the National Express services which provide a much more comfortable and dignified journey. Certainly a lot more cheaper than the train nowadays and easier than driving the car to London.

Click here for a larger version of this photograph!