The good old Parliament

23 Thursday Feb 2012

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Happy Thursday everyone. Thats right only 1 more day until the weekend can begin so cheer up. I try to avoid taking photos of the Houses of Parliament as it is one of the most photographed buildings in London. This means that its hard to get an original shot and nearly impossible to get one without a tourist in. Sometimes you just can’t help yourself though as it is a stunning place.

This was taken from the Hungerford foot bridge (probably my second favourite bridge after the good old Tower) and give you a great view over this part of London.

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Sit at Cardinal Point

22 Wednesday Feb 2012

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I took so many photos in this area as it is an architectural dream. This whole structure covers the shopping centre and food court at Cardinal Point, by Victoria Station. The structure reflects the orange glow of the shops below greatly. It certainly warmed me up while I was there.

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Thats a Wharf of a Dome

21 Tuesday Feb 2012

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My cleverly named title (well I try) should give you a clue to where this shot was taken… What still no idea? I don’t blame you.

Canary Wharf station has so many entrances and exits that I don’t know where I am going to pop out when i get off the train. This one was found on a recent photo walk when I came up this exit to find this mini glass dome across the road. It makes a great shot for my favourite wide angle lens as the tall building dwarf the square.

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The Tripod Police

20 Monday Feb 2012

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The area around the Millennium Dome is private property so we knew it wasn’t long before security came to stop us. For once they were actually very helpful. All you need is to obtain a licence in the area and they told me where and from whom I could get one for future use.

This area is packed where the Dome is being used as a venue. Luckily there was noting happening that night. I should properly check before in the future just in case.

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North Greenwich

17 Friday Feb 2012

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I have never really got my camera out while riding the tube but recently anytime I ride the underground I have my camera out and ready. I guess this came from pressure from Mike but a welcomed one. Otherwise I wouldn’t of got a shot like this.

Lets hope have none of you have that Friday feeling. This is always made better by going out tonight so I hope you can.

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Cardinal Point

16 Thursday Feb 2012

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As promised here is one of the photos I was able to recover from my corrupt CF card. Out of all of the images I took the ones of cardinal point are the ones I was hoping to get back.

As like most of the locations I go to, I have always seen this building by Victoria station but have never been able to go and photo it. Recently when I was organising a photo walk around London I suggested this area. I’m glad I did as many shots that I have processed so far were worth the effort.

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Angle of the Eye

15 Wednesday Feb 2012

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I’m not sure but the London Eye is definitely a candidate for the most photographed (if you can call it) building in London. There are infinite angles to frame and I have yet to explore most of them.

On Monday I told you all that a CF card I was using dies on me with about 150 photos on.  I managed to recover about 80% of them luckily with only a few frames (that I didn’t like anyway) unable to be recovered, so success!! I will post the first one from that set tomorrow when I get around to processing them tonight. Enjoy Wednesday.

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Traffic at the Tower (Not quite a valentines picture)

14 Tuesday Feb 2012

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Well I suppose I should start off by saying happy Valentines day to everyone, or for those of you who detest this coming day happy normal Tuesday. Since I got over 30 cards today (what you don’t believe me?) I will be celebrating in style with some chocolate brownie porridge at my desk. Thats right I know how to party. What ever you do have a good Tuesday.

This is obviously a picture of Tower Bridge in London. I am always surprised at the amount of tourists (even from England) that call this London Bridge. They always seen disappointed when I give them them directions to the actual London bridge. Luckily you can see Tower bridge from there so they find their way.

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Sunset behind the Tate

13 Monday Feb 2012

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This photo was taken a while back but I missed the brackets in my original scan of the photos. I likes the colours in the sky the brackets had to decided to process it over the weekend. I like the result I got from it.

Over weekend I went out on a photo walk with Mike, John and Steve on a photo walk from Victoria station to Embankment. I thought I took some great shots but came home to find that my CF card didn’t think it was a CF card anymore. Alas I may have lost all my photos from the day. This is the 1st time this has happened to me in 2 years of being a photographer. I don’t know where it was due to happen or if I was just unlucky. What ever the result, the next few days I will be trig to recover these. Hopefully I will be able to show you one of them tomorrow.

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The Crown on the Dome

10 Friday Feb 2012

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It is strange that I have never posted a picture of the Millennium Dome (that I can remember) until now. If i’m honest I haven’t really taken pictures in the area before. I haven excuse so I won’t bother making one up.

I learnt a good lesson on this photo. I was feeling lazy and couldn’t be bothered to change my lens. I was on a wide angle but the resulting image looked terrible as the dome was tiny. I wasn’t going to bother doing a close up until the photographers I was with decided to take a bit longer in the area. It usually is worth it in the end if you change the lens and it certainly was this time.

Have a great weekend everyone. See you on Monday.

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