Through the eyes of a travelling photographer
Time for reliving the past, with a visit to Chessington, the first time since 1989. Some of the original rides are still here, such as the Runaway train and log flume, but no sign of the gorilla that terrorised me as a boy! đŸ˜›
Smelly breath?
Three legged monkey
Brick Lane is often referred to as Banglatown, being the heart of the Bangladeshi community. Featuring markets, street sellers, and plenty of good food, it was a great location for another facebook group photography meetup.
Christian
Yulia
A large lightning storm struck London creating a spectacle over the skies. With a lack of a nice foreground, had to make do with the surroundings outside my house by Danson Park in South East London.
Only shot from within Danson Park (would have liked to get to the lake for some reflections, but was promptly locked out by security)
The width restriction on Danson Lane, Welling
Danson Crescent
Corner of Danson Crescent and Danson Lane
Walking past the McLaren-Mercedes stand in the F1 Village, came across these guys again, who this time had a glass ball for contact juggling
The crowds grew larger today, near capacity, whilst everyone witnessed some intense and surprising results. Heikki Kovalainen made his maiden pole position and Mark Webber completed the front row.
F1 Village, outside McLaren-Mercedes stand
Red Bull F1 car looking more like something out of Star Wars
Honda’s livery has been special the past couple of seasons
Lewis Hamilton, with his nations flag
Robert Kubica, BMW
Heikki Kovalainen after setting the pole lap
GP2 feeder series
Bruno Senna, nephew of the late and legendary Ayrton Senna
Mustang in the Historic Touring Cars qualifying
The British Grand Prix marks the half way point of the 2008 Formula One championship, which is closely fought between the top drivers of Felipe Massa, Robert Kubica, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton. Fridays practice day had great weather, with many burnt faces by the end of the day. The outlook for the next couple days however, doesn’t look promising.
Current leader, Massa (Ferrari), exiting Luffields
Heidfeld (BMW)
Nose cone of the McLaren F1
Local, and crowd favourite, Lewis Hamilton
Fernando Alonso, back in Renault
Mark Webber from Australia, setting his usual fast times
Sebastien Bourdais (Toro Rosso)
Porsche GT3 in the support race
The Prime Meridian is based on the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, where the longitudes of East and West are seperated.
Standing by familiar territory
Greenwich Panorama
Greenwich Observatory
The dome was built as a celebration of the new millennium, holding a major exhibition throughout 2000. The dome was renamed The O2 in 2005, and now features an indoor area, movie complex, bars and a restaurant.
From the quick Cat linking London City to the O2
From ground level, 2x graduated ND8 filters + 1x blue grad
Walking on from Canary Wharf, we took the stroll under Thames linking Canary Wharf to Greenwich
Emerging on the Southern side of the Thames, the view up to Greenwich Park and the historic architecture quickly captures the eye. We took a much needed pub lunch rest at the Trafalgar Tavern, and took the opportunity to borrow a friends impressive lens – the “holy grail” Canon 85L (f1.2)
Canary Wharf in the background
Click for full res file, f1.2, untouched
Celebrating a birthday the day before, decided Biggin Hill, Kent, was the place to be. A variety of aircraft both old and new made up the exciting air displays over the large crowd.
Best vantage point?
P51D Mustang and Spitfire
RAF Typhoon / Eurofighter
The UK Spring Bank holiday weekend is on presently, however as long weekends go, the bad weather has also arrived. Here’s a photo from Bethells, New Zealand, shot three years ago which I’ve previously made available in a triptych frame.
The Chislehurst caves, are a labyrinth of hand dug passageways, totalling 22 miles in length. Parts of the cave system are thought to be over 4000 years old, and once housed 15,000 people during World War II as an air raid shelter. More recently, concerts were peformed by Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and other big acts for the acoustic qualities, until health and safety put a stop to such performances.
Due to the low light, ISO 6400 used on all these shots, with the Canon 1D Mk III
Something you shouldn’t be doing by live explosives
Showing detail of hand dug caves
A recent addition -Carvings done by a female NZ artist
Temple of Doom?
Zoom effect
What’s up doll?
Gollum
Whilst travelling, and moving around a lot, I’ve been using an Acer notebook for photo editing, but recently the mouse died on me, and was forced to use the touchpad recently – which is incredibly hard to use photoshop with. So set my sights on the Logitech VX Nano and was delivered this week from Amazon.co.uk. The USB wireless transmitter is incredibly small, and can stay permanently plugged in, without causing interference.
The May Day bank holiday weekend was a start to a long period of fine weather, Londoners have been long waiting for. Took the opportunity to take a walk around South Bank, Westminster and finally along Embankment ending up at the Millennium Bridge connecting St Paul’s Cathedral to Tate Museum across the Thames.
Bugatti Veyron – fastest accelerating production car – 0-200km/h in just 7.4 seconds
Millennium Bridge and Tate Musuem, with Thames at low tide
Ghostly figures walk along the Millennium Bridge
Westward to Blackfriar’s Bridge
St Pauls dominating the skyline over Millennium Bridge
Recently joined a group of local Londoners to meet up and take photos at various locations around London. The first place was Camden Market, on a very busy Saturday afternoon.
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