G'day all,
Well it's very hard to narrow down 42 days and my share of 158gb of photo's down to a reasonable selection to show family, let alone an even smaller selection to put on here! For now I have tackled just the first 10 days - London & Lake District. It's been narrowed down so much that I haven't even included any of Greenwich Observatory!
Our holiday was very much a tourist travel through UK and Europe, so it was often impossible to get the kinds of photo's we would have liked to have, the kind where you can wait even 5 minutes for the light to change, but we really had to and wanted to keep moving through to get to the places we wanted to see. We were often on tour buses etc. Even so we still strived to try and get a unique shot, or something that captures the feel of a place more than just a tourist snap of it. That was often hard as I'm hugely scared of taking photo's in public places, so doing something like stopping to take a photo of a musician in the london tube took a few days of telling myself "you must do that!" before I did. And let's not even talk about trying to take photo's in the london finance district with lots of suited business people around. And then I didn't think clearly enough about the shot to make the most of the opportunity. But I have something in most situations.
When first downloading the pictures we were both a bit disappointed with our results, me especially. But working through them to make this small selection I'm feeling a better about what I have.
It's no accident there's several of the Tube, and several of the Lake District, and only one of Stonehenge. I absolutely loved the tube - the sound of live music ringing through the long tube corridors I vividly remember, enjoyed the picturesque Lake District, and thought Stonehenge was somewhat interesting but a bit overrated and a big hole for GB of photo's to later be deleted!
We went to stonehenge for a "private" (bus of 42) sunset viewing where you can walk throughout the stones.
I have missed out so many photo's. Things like shots of Lacock - so picturesque, narrow laneways and teahouses of london's central finance area, the themes, Greenwich markets, Camden Markets, Regent Garden, quaint doorways, alleys, even bicycle leaning artistically against lamp poles!... but it's just so time consuming to work through the photo's!
Enjoy.
Roger.
Enjoy.