What to shoot in Southampton?

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Im off down to Southampton for a week on a course from work in April and wondered what interesting things there are to photograph in the area, I will have my car so can travel about.

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Looking at you signature i am guessing that landscapes are more your thing. The New Forest is not far from Southampton. As your visiting in April you could well get out to the New Forest for some sunsets and sunrises. Push through the New Forest and there is some nice coastline.

April 1st Sunrise 06:41 - Sunset 19:39
April 30th Sunrise 05:41 - Sunset 20:26

Being from the borders you are treated to great natural landscapes, down this way you are going to have to hunt around a bit!

Winchester is just up the M3 and has a nice Cathedral. Portsmouth has the Spinnaker Tower which is nicely lit up at night.

I have never really seen much inspiration in Southampton itself and i'm usually there once or twice a month. Maybe i'm too familiar with the place though. Have a look on Flickr and see what a search on Southampton throws up.
 
Cheers Martyn, i have seen shots of the Spinnaker tower so I think I might give that a go and may do Winchester on the way home, with a 9 hour drive it will be good to stretch my legs.
 
I dont know how much free time you will have on your course, but if the opportunity arrives for a chance to get over to see the needles on the Isle of Wight take it. I have been over to the needles many times & still love to see them!:thumbs:
 
I work there and have lived there, it's a hole and I've never had inspiration there either. A few miles out of the city though and there are some great locations, as already mentioned.

Ealing (by Totton) has some great views of the docks at night and is well worth a visit (Oystercatchers by day too).

Farley Mount (in between Winchester and Romsey) is good too.

edit: whereabouts are you staying?
 
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Southampton centre is full of old walls and tudour buildings we have the docks might be lucky and have a big ship in when your there you could pop to marwell zoo theres a few pics of southampton on my flickr page
 
Get on the Hythe Ferry at Town Quay, takes 12 minutes to cross to Hythe, when you arrive at Hythe a narrow guage railway takes you down the pier into the village. It's one of the oldest commercially operated trains in the UK. Hythe is a pretty village on the edge of the New Forest and plenty of photographic opportunities if you look in the right places, good place to eat and have a pint too.
 
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I would second the docks - some great views to be had there. Check out which Cruise ships are due here/

Salisbury Cathedral is only about 25 minutes up the road from Southampton... and Stonehenge is only about 8 miles north of Salisbury too.
 
Stonehenge sounds good, your not paining a very good picture of Southampton though, I think Im only going to have evenings free so by the time I have fed myself there's not going to be much daylight left.

thanks for all your suggestions though.
 
Why not try the Bargate, the old city walls very near there, the docks, St Mary's football ground! ;¬).

Lots of parks in the town centre, also the Common.

Winchester & Farley Mount are good advice, Marwell Zoo Park, Isle of Wight would be fab, also maybe Salisbury catherdral, 25miles up the A36?

Have fun. Just anywhere but Portsmouth!
 
Yeah I would second getting out of southampton ;)
 
To the east there is royal victoria country park
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/countryside/rvcp/

2 minutes away is netley abbey http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/netley-abbey/

You can shoot across the water to get Fawley from this area.

In the town there are the old walls as mentioned and quite a few older buildings such as Tudor House, Duke Of Wellington pub and so on.

You could head for Portsmouth and do shots over the city from Portsdown hill.

You might find inspiration in the city parks - there are lots of them!

Even the Itchen Bridge might be worth a look, I know a few on here have done night shots of it, they recently installed some funky lights on it..
 
I think I've only ever been to Southampton a couple of times and I don't remember it as being a "pretty" city like Salisbury or Bath, but there are still often interesting things to shoot in such places. I guess living in Taunton almost anywhere is going to seem more interesting as it's a pretty small "one horse" town ;)
 
I think a lot of the comments show that wherever is familiar to us is less inspiring than somewhere new, a case of "the other mans grass" probably something to shoot anywhere even Taunton :D
 
artyman said:
I think a lot of the comments show that wherever is familiar to us is less inspiring than somewhere new, a case of "the other mans grass" probably something to shoot anywhere even Taunton :D
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Nah just that southampton is a bit of a hole... :lol:

Seriously thought I'd echo some of what's been said about the new forest, hythe, beaulieu isn't far, mottisfont abbey nr romsey.
 
Get yo the new forest and find the deer :-) il help u find them! I follow a heard near buckers hard !!!!
 
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