207/365 Heron

This heron was hanging around a coot’s nest in Verulamium Park on the River Ver.

I suspect he was looking for dinner 🙁

Technical notes: Nikon D90 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF. ISO 200, 1/60 at f/4.0.

201/365 Crane

Blackfriars National Rail station is being largely rebuilt and extended across the river for 2011; until then the Underground station is closed.  There is a lot of work going on above and below ground; this is one of the cranes involved.

It’s a mess at the moment, but 12 carriage trains will make it worthwhile, I’m sure!

Technical notes: Nikon D90 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF. ISO 200, 1/320 at f/11.0

Some of you may know that I’m a fan of Scott Kelby. He’s a great photo educator, both for photography and software.

Anyway, last year he arranged a worldwide photo walk to celebrate the launch of his Digital Photography Book Volume 2. This year he organised a second one, co-incidentally at the time of the launch of his The Digital Photography Book Volume 3. I signed up for the London South Bank walk, ably led by Dave Newton of EOS Network.  We started at 5:30pm at the London Eye and wandered for around two hours along to the Millennium Bridge, taking in the skate park and other photo opportunities on the South Bank.   The scheduled proceedings having finished, we repaired to the Anchor pub and commandeered a corner of their balcony – well, we got a small corner which soon became a big corner once we scared off the natives by talking of ISO, f-stops and lens choices, along with a lot of rivalry between Canon and Nikon users who only called a truce when piling in on the lone Olympus user!  After a supper of fish and chips (and mushy peas – yay!) we headed back out for the sunset and the following twilight.

A slideshow of my photos (just push play, or click through here for the full set):

And our merry band (photo courtesy of Dave Newton):

photowalk

Right, that’s it. Bang up to date. Been through and processed all of last week’s; and the week before’s which were languishing unblogged on Flickr are now blogged.

82/365 Granola 83/365 Smile! 84/365 Flame
82/365 Granola 83/365 Smile! 84/365 Flame
85/365 Strettcchhh 86/365 Spring 87/365 Skyline
85/365 Strettttcccchhhh 86/365 Spring 87/365 Skyline - Part 2
88/365 Father and Daughter 89/365 Chocolate Moose 90/365 Show me the way to go home
88/365 Father and Daughter 89/365 Chocolate Moose 90/365 Show me the way to go home
91/365 Shed 92/365 Thyme gentlemen please 93/365 Taking the evening air
91/365 Shed 92/365 Thyme gentlemen please 93/365 Taking the evening air
94/365 Quackers idea for a hanging basket 95/365 DSi 96/365 Rose
94/365 Quackers idea for a hanging basket 95/365 DSi 96/365 Rose