The weekend that was

[azekeil]

This weekend ev1ldonut looked after Tianna for us while fuckwit had Jordan. This was 'our weekend' that we'd marked down for a while, but typical me I'd not actually managed to plan something. I hate having to plan something when it's really important and it's not actually my needs I need to cater for. Ah well, women will be women. So we made it up as we went along (drove her batty let me tell you).

Ended up going to London and had a vague plan to see London Bridge (which we managed to fail by coming out of the station and turning the wrong way - whoops), the London Eye (which we did see and even go on) and the IMAX cinema which we failed to see because we missed the first five minutes of the start and it seemed like a bit of a waste. Oh, and shopping which we didn't manage to do either.

Well, instead we had a nice chinese and I introduced kissycat1000 to Crispy Aromatic Duck which of course she loved as I knew she would. She even mastered chopsticks amongst a lot of giggling.

Then we went through Soho, because she hadn't seen it. I must admit I'd not really been through it properly myself. I even turned out to be the one to turn down her suggestion of going to a peep show because I hadn't thought about it beforehand. Sounds stupid I know but it's not exactly in line with my principles and made me feel rather odd. Quite happy to go into fetish clubs but a peep show? Hmm. I suspect I'll be fine if I've had a chance to think about it beforehand. Autistic? Me? Never.

After the disappointment of missing the shops for some extras for my camera and missing the IMAX showing kissycat1000 wanted to see we decided that rather than stay in London with cryx or get a room we'd just head back to Cheltenham and spend the night in one of our houses (ooh sounds like we're dead rich or something) and have a lie-in in the morning (bliss). Nice showers, a full cooked breakfast later and we were.. dead tired. Ah well; we made our way down to Bristol (after discovering the Bristol IMAX wasn't showing anything interesting ever) and failed again to visit another shop for board games etc we went to chocojon's for general sociableness.

I geeked with my camera and discovered that it has very little in the way of remote control functionality from a computer - well it does have the ability to take a picture which I suppose was my main wish (so that my pressing the button physically on the camera doesn't disturb the shot I am attempting to take). But anyway. Perhaps there will be a version of the third party software available for the Coolpix 900 that will work for the 5400...

Still, I was quite happy with the shots I took on Saturday, a few of which are under the cut:


It's really..


..really..


..Really..


..Big. (So big I couldn't even fit the whole of it in with my 28mm lens..)


And the views were spectacular. You can just about make out the curvature of the earth (unless that's the distortion from the wide-angle lens)


This of course made me think of gerald_duck :)

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[gerald_duck]

This of course made me think of gerald_duck :)

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Crispy Aromatic Duck

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[gerald_duck]

But, more seriously, I'm glad you two had a good time. If you're ever looking for suggestions of other ways to mess about in London, I can probably help. Then again, I'm sure you know lots of people who live, or have lived, in London. (-8

(I suspect the horizon curvature is at least mainly lens distortion, by the way. Some back-of-an-envelope maths indicates you need to be able to see about 200 km of horizon in order to perceive a 1km bulge in the middle. I may be underestimating just how far you can see from the London Eye, though…)

[dylan.livejournal.com]

That is definitely lens distortion.

The first picture is my favorite, there's something interesting about the composition. You must be really pleased with the camera, the pictures are so clear and sharp :)

You do realise I'm going to have to go and buy a bigger, better one now don't you? :P

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

That first photo was a case of me looking up from the queue at that point, pointing upwards and telling azekeil that he should take one. The second photo is actually one that I took, though the mesh fencing etc spoils it and I had to crop out the edges to get it to look the way I wanted it to. I'm not into photography enough to buy myself a decent camera but I do like to have access to them.

[diffrentcolours]

The duck boat is from the London Duck Tour which I went on for wehmuth's birthday.

[bex-sgs.livejournal.com]

Nice to hear what you were up to - sounds like you had a nice time! I've been on the wheel too, but it wasn't a very clear day. Cool pics though :)