Neil Blakely Photography

This is a collection of work drawn from years of travel, street observation, and skywatching — moments framed not as spectacle, but as quiet records of place and time. You’ll find images from across Europe, North Africa, and Asia, alongside photographs made closer to home. Some are fleeting street scenes. Others are slow meditations on space and light. I shoot instinctively. I document rather than stage. Welcome to my archive.

Street & Urban Scenes
These are studies of how people and places intersect. Some are candid, others are contextual — always with an eye on light, form, and human presence.

I tend not to label these as "street photography" in the purist sense. They’re observations from the in-between: stations, crossings, quiet corners. Often unplanned, sometimes lucky, always real.
Travel Photography
I’ve travelled with a camera for nearly three decades — not to tick off destinations, but to see for myself and make real those places I only glimpsed in books and magazines. These photographs document cover journeys from destinations from all around the globe, recorded at walking pace and often away from the romantasied view.

Each gallery is a single place and a single moment in time. What you’ll see here is largely how it was. For the details of the trips, please view my travelogue.
Astrophotography
A growing archive of night sky imaging, taken mainly from Guernsey and my back yard using both smart telescopes and traditional camera setups.

The Deep Space images here were taken with a Vaonis Vespera Pro or SeeStar S50, and processed using a mix of onboard stacking and PixInsight, a hobby I started to learn in 2025. Night sky images, are taken with traditional camera set-ups when time and conditions allowed on my tavels.

It’s not a scientific log — just a record of what can be captured when the skies cooperate, the neighbours turn their lights off, and the clouds hold back for a night.
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