Olympic City, Stratford 3.End of the Day

Final images of the set from our visit to Stratford on Wednesday. Quite a contrast between the deserted paths of the Olympic Park and the busy Stratford Bus Station area. Fortunately we had gone by coach as all the trains were stopped for several hours because of an incident (we wondered what all the flashing lights and sirens were!)

Olympic Park Stratford. 2 Velodrome, Canal and Trees

We were fortunate to have at least a few cyclists trying out the track at the Velodrome. I decided to use my fish-eye  (first four images). Panning with this proved interesting (image two) as it is very difficult to keep the horizon straight. Also a few more images of the canal, boats and graffiti and a couple of arty silver birch images - the second a double exposure.

Olympic Park Stratford. 1 Contrasts

We had the almost perfect day weatherwise for our CCC outing to Stratford, London yesterday. It started cold and misty, with ice on the canal and soft colours, and ended with an orange sunset.

Pilmer Woods, Crowborough, East Sussex

When I was 18, my parents moved from South East London to Crowborough in Sussex and one of my favourite places was the woods down Pilmer Lane. I visited them on Monday and they looked much the same with pines and silver birch and lots of moss and toad stools. Glistening Ink caps and Dead Man's fingers shown here. We lived at 37 Pleasant View Road, the frontage of which has been considerably altered. In our time it had a balcony etc as in number 33,

Shropshire Hills and Skies

On Saturday morning, I put on my ice crampons and set off up the hill behind Peter and Jane's house. There was still some snow where Friday's sunshine hadn't reached and up on the top of the hill. The sky changed constantly. The first image shows the Wrekin in the distance then The Lawley and Caer Caradoc. All monochromes are quick conversions from Raw - will be fun to try with Silver Efex (when my main computer is back in action!!).