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London Shots, Part Deux

Posted by on July 26, 2012 No comments

Slowly working my way through the shots I had planned to process.  Here is the next batch!

On Guard
While walking past Buckingham Palace, we didn’t plan on going in, but I would be remiss if I didn’t grab a shot of one of the guards.

From the Eye
From the London Eye, everything seems so small!  I loved the skewed view of this shot, and the curve of the earth.

Nevermore
“As every school child knows, there have been ravens at the Tower of London since time immemorial, and if they ever leave, the monarchy and the tower itself will fall.”

View from Greenwich
While visiting the Prime Meridian, we got a great view of the city. You can see them building up te Horse Arena to be used for the Olympics.

Overgrown
Highgate Cemetery is separated into and East and West side.  We opted for the East side and I am glad we did.  It’s covered with overgrown graves and very ominous.

London Shots

Posted by on July 17, 2012 No comments

As promised, here are a few of the good shots as I go through and process them.

London Panorama

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This panorama was shot from up on Parliament Hill in Hampstead Heath.  We stopped off at the Southampton Arms pub and had a few GREAT pints of cider.  Somehow we thought it would be a good idea to stagger through the park and hike all the way up to the top of the hill.  I am really glad we did since I was able to take this shot.  I used Photoshop CS5 to stitch the panorama together.

The Clock Tower

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Here is your standard picture of the Clock Tower.  Apparently, Big Ben is the name of the bell inside the tower.  We stopped along the bridge and I snapped this one pretty quick.  I was happy with how it came out.

London Eye Long Exposure

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London Eye with the Shard

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On the Thursday we were there, the building known as The Shard was having its opening ceremonies.  Part of that was shooting off lasers across the city!  I didn’t have much time to get to a closer location and thought that, through the London Eye would be a good shot.  I set up for about an hour and got both of these shots.  One is the lasers going off and the other is a Long Exposure of the Eye as it spun.  The laser show started at 10:15pm and the Eye stops moving at 10:00pm

London Underground

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Lastly (for now) is the London Underground.  On the last day I realized I didn’t have any good shots of the Tube.  I loved the blur on the train for this one, but had to do some cleaning up of some other parts of the shot.  Lets just say someone gave a crack at photobombing.

I will try and have some more shots up soon.