Posts Tagged ‘photos’
Friday, 20th August, 2010
Barclays Cycle Hire bikes, affectionately known as Boris Bikes
After trying out a bike with a friend who’d signed up I became a convert and decided to get a membership key myself. On Sunday I rode around the cycle paths in Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park, nervously enjoying the route along the Serpentine lake as I cycled for the first time since I had a bike as a kid. It was fun and exhilarating and my arms actually ached the next day from lugging the heavy bike and gripping the handlebars so tightly.
Like most of the early users of the scheme, I ended up explaining to curious passersby at the docking stations how it works, and heard more than one person say “Look! A Boris Bike!” as I cycled past. I definitely need more practice to improve my confidence and control, but I’d like to become a regular on the bikes. I think I’ll be signing up for free cycle training with Westminster council next month.
Tags: London, photos
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Friday, 6th August, 2010
I’m currently reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia). I’d bought it to read before the trip, but actually I think it’s more vivid having been to Wadi Rum and seen the stark, dramatically beautiful landscape he describes in so much detail. This rock formation rising formidably from the hot sand, seen from road into Wadi Rum, is known as the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Tags: Jordan, photos, travel
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Thursday, 5th August, 2010
It wasn’t until I was sorting through and uploading my Mideast photos that I realised I had what appeared to be a cleverly composed shot but was in fact a fluke of positioning. When we were in Wadi Rum, Jordan, I scrambled up an arch formed by the rock (while my travel buddy, who prefers her feet firmly on the ground, stayed below).
Standing on top of the arch I took photos of the view in all directions, including with the sun behind me. And so I ended up with this, which is one of my favourites from the day — me and the Bedouin guide in reflected in shadow on the surrounding rock face (I’m on the right):
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Friday, 30th July, 2010
Along Regent’s Canal in Camden
Professional jealousy?
Tags: London, photos
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Sunday, 20th June, 2010
Since none of them were placed on my regular work-errands-socialising route, it took a while before I came across any of the more than 250 vibrantly painted elephant statues dotted around London as part of the Elephant Parade open-air art exhibition to raise awareness of the conservation of Asian elephants. Today was the end of the street exhibit; they’re being moved to a couple of collective displays before the campaign wraps up with an auction on 3 July.
Here are a couple I came across around town:
More on my Flickr set here.
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Friday, 11th June, 2010
Arriving on Tuesday afternoon to beautiful summery weather, having left behind rainy London, there was time for a walk into the old town before being locked away in hotel conference rooms for two days.
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Friday, 4th June, 2010
Above the entrance to the Rootmaster bus restaurant:
Climbing the narrow stairs at the back of one of the classic iconic London buses reminded me that I miss jumping on and off the old
Routemaster buses around town — I hope the promising new design unveiled a couple of weeks ago means they’ll make it back into service in some form. On the condition that the back doors remain open, of course.
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Friday, 21st May, 2010
A glorious summery Friday and office workers converged on a small green to enjoy their lunch in the sun. I was among them and snapped this on my mobile; there were more people behind me but I was trying not to be so obvious about it.
Tags: London, photos
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Friday, 14th May, 2010
I hope the forecasts are right and spring puts in an appearance in the next week. I took this shot laying on my picnic blanket during that brief glimpse of warm weather that graced London with its presence
last month. The first two weeks of May have been more like March. I take lot of photos of trees; you might have noticed… I love their intricacies, their seasons — the way they stand solemn and majestic in winter, bursting into leafy green life in spring, filtering streams of sunlight in the summer, lighting up in a blaze of fiery orange and red in the autumn.
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