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Through the Structure

A week ago I posted a picture of the tall wheel that was at the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, London over christmas. This is the same wheel but taken from the bottom of the structure. Its great that you can see the structure through the movement of the wheel. I added some photo tools filters to my photoshop edit to give it a more grungy look.

This week has been great for me. A new job up London will allow me to get out and around taken lots of photos. After I settle in there I will go out about twice a week. My photo valet is getting bare so I need to take some decent photos that I am happy with.

Thin wheel

I have promised myself that at some point this week I will go out in and around London again for a photo walk. My reserves are running low in the pre-processed photo department so I need to either choose some of my rejects to process (this can actually uncover some hidden gems) or go out and take some new ones. I will be busy with a new job from next week so don’t know how much time I will actually have, but I will take every chance I can to keep on posting.

This is a photo from Hyde Park during the christmas period. A huge christmas fair and market names Winter Wonderland is set up. There is a huge big wheel (okay not as big as the London Eye but still pretty massive) temporarily erected. It is the largest freestanding wheel in the world, I think. This is a side on view of said wheel.

Spinning Neon

Earlier I posted a shot of a ride at the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. This is the same ride from another angle. I am not sure what I prefer. This one shows the ride spinning while the bright neon lights draw in passers by. The tripod I was using had to be modified for this shot to fit thorough the railing of the ride. I saw modified, I mean used as a monopod while it precariously rests on a ledge with me trying to hold it steady to the best of my ability. As you can imagine it took a few tries until I was happy with the brackets.

Now christmas is over its time to plan for New years. We have a rule in my house that it cannot be called that. We call it my birthday for obvious reasons. The bad thing is that New Years Eve is always an anti-climax, especially this year as I will be working on a boat on the Thames.

July 7th Memorial in Hyde Park

A permanent memorial to honour the victims of the 7 July 2005 London Bombings is in place in London’s Hyde park. There are 52 stainless steel pillars, one for each person killed in the attack. It was created by a design team including architects Carmody Groarke and engineering team Arup.

It is one of my favorite things to photo as it has many angles to discover. It was the site for one of my very first HDRs that you can see here.

I would just like to use this post to say a big hello to all my new followers. I have had quite a few recently and I will get around to looking at all your blogs soon.

I recently went to the Winter Wonderland in London’s Hyde Park. I hadn’t been to a circus in years so had to go to a performance. They are very cheesy but I guess they are for kids. Still was fun to revisit my childhood.

I still like this photo aswell. It was taken when summer first started. Everyone was very happy before it got too hot and hyde park dried up.

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Lonely chairs HDR- Its great when the sun comes out the London Mayor decides to suddenly put out deck chairs. The only sun we will get though