Exploring London

Edin
December 1, 2013
Pure Photography

I apologise for the brevity of last week’s post, recovering from having all four of my wisdom teeth extracted and a long car journey left me in a mood that wasn’t conducive to blogging. I’ll try and make up for it with this post.

It seems forever ago that I went to England, and indeed it has been half a year. I still have barely touched photos that I’m intent on processing! I’m doing a bit of a jump forward in time with this post, but I will come back to a few things later on.

London. Both of my visits have been typified by uncharacteristically hot and sunny weather, which has been a treat. This time round we took a tour on our first day that covered the main sights and went up the Eye. That night we went to see the spectacular Les Miserables and wandered through Piccadilly Circus.

March_EAW_7708-EditWEB — I don’t usually like ‘Colour pop’ images, but this one seems to work well, if a little cliché.

EyePanoramaWEB — With rapidly dying camera batteries, I blasted out a panorama from the top of the London Eye.

Our second day was wandering and exploring. We went to the glittering Harrods, Hyde Park – where I indulged my bird-photographing self, and the Natural History Museum.

NorthGower_EAW_7830-EditWEB — This may look familiar if you’ve seen the BBC Sherlock series. Not actually Baker Street, the stand in for the show was North Gower Street.

NHM_EAW_7840-EditWEB — I absolutely love the Natural History Museum.

Fisch_EAW_7845-EditWEB — From the Zoological Spirit Room

SPRocks_EAW_7857-EditWEB — Self-portrait with glowing minerals!

BigBen_EAW_7897-Edit — Last stop – Parliament and Westminster Cathedral.

We only spent two days there, but I enjoyed them immensely. I’m not usually one for the bustle of cities, but there are a few I make exceptions for, and London is one of them.

Edin

Seabird scientist and conservation photographer working in Aotearoa New Zealand.