FEBRUARY 2026 · ROAM
Valentines day ICM
Bristol, England
The Wapping Wharf MetroBus corridor is a good subject for rotational ICM. There's a strong central axis — the tracks receding, buildings either side — and when you rotate the camera during a half-second exposure the geometry collapses into a spiral. The tracks become a vortex. The red building and the shops fragment. I shot it multiple times and kept three versions: a tight rotation, a looser spiral, and a tunnel effect where the compression pushes the far end of the corridor into a bright circle. Each rotation produces a different character from the same space.
Intentional camera movement on a moving subject is the harder question. A helmeted cyclist crossing the footbridge: the railing lines streak horizontally, the cyclist becomes a shape in the middle of that streak. A parent pushing a pram along the harbour path: yellow lines on the ground become streaks in the ICM, the figure softened but still present. The rowers in a racing shell — three of them, a pan tracking shot — the ship hull and dock buildings becoming horizontal smears behind them. These subjects are already in motion. The ICM makes that motion visible as geometry.
The harbour underneath all of this — brick, rust, wire — sitting still while everything else moved.
Bristol Harbourside — February 2026
We The Curious. The 'QUESTION' banners and coloured discs on the exterior: straight shot, the building clear; then rotational blur, the banners spiralling; then close in on the pink 'QUESTION', green and teal beside it, the rotation shaking the letters into abstract colour. Three approaches, same building, different arguments.
The woman in a white coat running across the open plaza. The red park benches streak. She's a white shape in motion. I tracked the run, held the camera moving.
Two joggers past the SS Great Britain in the Great Western Dockyard: horizontal blur, the ship's iron hull behind them compressed into a dark band.
One shot without blur. Barbed wire coiled on a rusted metal railing below graffiti-tagged dark brick walls. No technique applied. The harbour underneath all of this — brick, rust, wire — sitting still while everything else moved.
ICM rotational blur of Wapping Wharf tram corridor, buildings and tram tracks spiralling, Bristol Harbourside
ICM rotational blur of Bristol Harbourside building, yellow stairs and blue sky fragmenting into motion
ICM blur of a cartoon teeth graffiti face mural, stop signs and back street receding behind, Bristol
ICM horizontal blur of a helmeted cyclist crossing a Bristol footbridge, railing lines streaking
ICM horizontal blur of a parent pushing a pram along Bristol Harbourside, yellow lines streaking
ICM rotational blur of We The Curious science museum exterior with 'QUESTION' banners and coloured discs
ICM tunnel spiral effect along Wapping Wharf tram corridor, red building and shops fragmenting
ICM rotational blur of We The Curious exterior, colourful banners and facade elements spinning
ICM close rotational blur of We The Curious banners — pink 'QUESTION', green, teal — abstract motion
ICM rotational blur of yellow-edged stairs inside the We The Curious building, Bristol
We The Curious science museum exterior with reflective pool, 'QUESTION' banners and coloured discs, Bristol
ICM horizontal blur of two joggers running past the SS Great Britain in Bristol's Great Western Dockyard
Large stainless steel sphere sculpture reflected in a shallow pool at Bristol Harbourside, pedestrians behind
ICM horizontal blur of a man in a teal jacket walking past yellow railings along Bristol Harbourside
ICM pan tracking three rowers in a racing shell on the harbour, ship hull and dockside buildings streaking, Bristol
ICM horizontal blur of a couple sitting on a harbourside bench, boat masts and dockside sheds ghosted behind, Bristol
ICM horizontal blur of a woman in a white coat running across an open plaza, red park benches streaking, Bristol
ICM rotational blur inside a graffiti-tagged steel lattice bridge tunnel, pedestrians and shadows fragmenting, Bristol
Barbed wire coiled on a rusted metal railing below graffiti-tagged dark brick walls, Bristol back street
ICM zoom blur inside a steel lattice bridge tunnel, cyclists and pedestrians silhouetted at the far end, Bristol
ICM rotational blur centred on a pink street art frog poster, red brick buildings and bare trees spinning, Bristol