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.

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.

The giant wheel in Hyde Park

Another from Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland for you today. This wheel is the world largest portable big wheel. It doesn’t look that big in this picture but strangely someone I met thought it was the London Eye. Obviously it is no where near as big but I guess if you are a tourney in London, any massive Big Wheel could be the London Eye.

That bright light in the sky that looks like a giant star is actually the moon. It was very bright that night and I guess is very apt for Christmas.

Neon at the Wonderland

This was not the first time that I have gone to Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland at christmas. I went last year but wasn’t able to take many decent photos as I was with family. This time though I went on a dedicated trip to take photos. I got a lot better shots then last time. It may help that now I am more experienced now but also it helps to be around fellow photographers for inspiration and enjoyment.

As soon as I saw this ride I new what I wanted to do. The colours and textures lend itself perfectly for HDR. I got a few from another angle with the ride spinning that have come out well (considering I had to fashion a tripod so I could lean though the bard on the far side). I will post one of them at a later date. Enjoy on this final run up to christmas.

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.

Tumblr wasnt kind to me as it somehow deleted posts in my queue the other day. A present decoration of my christmas tree at home. Its getting so Chrismassy (I know not a word) now. Not long to go!

It makes me cold just looking at this photo. Its was freezing taking it aswell.

There is still snow that hasn’t melted here in London. Hopefully it will disappear soon and life can get back to normal.

Yep, so I am currently still snowed in. I managed to get out to go sledging though. While I was out I took a few photos.

Unfortunately I only took my old camera and no tripod as everything would of got soaked so all of these snow HDRs are taken from 1 RAW file