I’ve Been Exhibited!!!

For the first time ever, I have had a photograph picked to be in an exhibition. The exhibition is being held where I work, and invitations to submit pictures for the exhibition was open to both staff as well as patients, family and friends. So I was thrilled that one of my entries had been chosen.

The picture they picked, is one that I use as a header for this blog:

I took this picture at the Queen’s House in Greenwich, and is of what is known as the Tulip Staircase. With the spiralling staircase drawing your the viewer up to the roof-light, it reminds me of an eye. Also,  with just two colours, blue and white, I feel makes it a very clean and simple image.

Lord Mayor’s Show Fireworks

This year, I was planning on going to see the “Lord Mayor’s Show”. However, the plan never materialised. Still, there was still time for me to get to London to see the firework display. I wasn’t expecting any thing as spectacular as the New Year Fireworks we now have in London every year. However, the display I witnessed was quite spectacular, and well worth the trip.

I do need to look up some advice on how to take firework pictures, but that said, I was quite pleased with the couple I got:

In 2012, I am definitely planning to experience the whole day of the Lord Mayor’s Show, and have already put the day in my diary.

Another New View of the Olympic Park

With the opening of the new Westfield Shopping Centre, a new road has opened, which allows access to the car parks at the shopping centre. I decided to try to walk along this road, and thought I might have been met with some security guards – but there were none to be seen. Basically the road curves round the southern end of the Olympic Park, and offers the following views:

I think this is the closest the public can get to the Aquatic Centre. Also, it now looks like the Orbit is just ready for fitting out.

Only 9 months now before the games come to town.

 

Bits of Buildings

Another experiment, and another way of trying to do something different. This time, I decided to just pick parts of a building to photograph. This gives us an abstract picture, which sometimes can make a more interesting picture.

The first image is from a building, that not many people would recognise. Its part of the City of London Tourist Office, which is situated opposite St Paul’s Cathedral:

The second picture, is a building that most people will recognise after July 2012:

It’s the 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre. Designed by Zaha Hadid, and will be the first venue that most people visiting the 2012 Olympics will see.