Photographs of London (22nd January 2006)

Locations:
Horse Guards, London (51.504676, -0.1291 [Google Maps] [maps.live.com] [multimap])
Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London^[info] (51.500876, -0.124798 [Google Maps] [maps.live.com] [multimap])
Southbank Centre, London^[info] (51.506045, -0.117545 [Google Maps] [maps.live.com] [multimap])

Tags: Big Ben, Birds, Black Swan, Black-headed Gull, Britain, Buildings and Architecture, Carrion Crow, Crows, Downing Street, England, Europe, Family, Geese, Grey Squirrel, Greylag Goose, Gulls, Horse Guards, Houses Of Parliament, London, London Eye, Mammals, Panorama, Parents, River Thames, Rivers and Streams, Royal Academy, Squirrels, Swan, Victoria Embankment, Westminster, Wildlife and Nature

Dates: started Saturday, 21st January 2006, latest additions Saturday, 20th May 2006

A proper test of my new camera: London in the Winter sun. The lack of an image stabiliser coupled with the low light conditions made for some frustrations, but it wasn't as grainy as I thought when I first got it: I'd accidentally pressed the high speed button and got a high-ISO, very grainy pic. Also don't know how to use the rose properly - it's supposed to shield the lens from glare, but just ended up getting in the way of my wide-angled shots.

We weren't quite sure what the hell was going on when we started getting ushered down this covered roadway, until we ended up with a big crowd of people watching the Horse Guards doing their thing - so, a nice surprise in the end.

I missed getting a close-up view of the Big Ben clock tower in the last rays of the sun by about thirty seconds.