With the summer here, I find myself having more time than usual. As a result, I’ve finally managed to look through and edit all the pictures I’ve taken that I hadn’t looked at before… the oldest ones of which were from November 2008. So I’ve put them all together (they were all from London), and produced this gallery. Hope you like them.

Pictures from London

To Richmond Park I went a few days after I went to Stonehenge. From Wackypedia:

Richmond Park is a 955 hectares (9.55 km²; 3.69 sq mi) urban park within London UK. Almost three times as large as New York City’s Central Park, it is Britain’s largest urban walled park, and the largest of the Royal Parks in London. The park is famous for its red and fallow deer, which number over six hundred.

It’s a shame I discovered it so late; I would definitely have gone there more often. Well, here’s a couple photos.

I went to Stonehenge and Salisbury around mid June. It was a pleasant day, full of strolls and greenery, a sort of lazy afternoon that stretches from morning till night.

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A special tribute and shout out to my friend Nicole, who can lick her elbow and has famously done so at Stonehenge. She blogs here.

Now that I’m done editing all the photos from my summer trip, it’s time wrap up editing the ones I took before it. Shouldn’t be too many. I really need to get through them, lest they start gathering dust on my hard drive (like the photos from the first time I went to the Tower Bridge – in November).

Well here’s the first set – I went to have a spin on the famous London eye. Whoop whoop.

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Tonight’s Healines:

Krystof is done with schoolwork for the year.

That means the holidays have begun.

I will see many places during them.

Hopefully I will have many pictures from them.

And hopefully you will come back here at the end of the Holidays to check those pictures out.

And even more hopefully, you will have a pleasant summer as well.

Today I had an excursion down to Brick Lane, and then to the Tower of London. At Brick Lane, I wandered into two art exhibitions; it was pretty damn cool. I have already put up photos from Brick Lane (and the route from there to the Tower); the rest I will put up later. It is now time to go watch the Lakers win a Championship. Woop woop.

Ni!!

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Not entirely happy with the way they came out, but I suppose it’s not terrible, and I’ve learned a few things, so hey.

Yeah.

Don’t really feel like talking much (blame the Czech football team for that), but hey, I’ve just put up two new photo galleries: Dover & the G20 protests.

Enjoy.

Hello world.

The weather’s been wonderful for about a week now – sunny skies, 15 degree Celsius temperatures sort of thing. It was hard to convince myself to stay in and do some work work work.

But no more. The courseworks are turned in, the lectures are over. Now comes a month-long revision period….we’ll see how that goes. And then an onslaught of exams. We’ll definitely see how that goes.

In the meantime, I’ve been starting to find time for photography again, so here‘s a couple photos I’ve taken around Chelsea during the last week.

Happy Spring Break for those on them!

Yeah, snow. You know, everything’s slippery, kids running around, snowballs hitting you in the face every ten seconds, wet socks…snow.

That’s right kids, London’s in sweet slumbers under thick white sheets (measured in at around 16cm, apparently). And when I say slumbers, I mean it – all bus connections have been canceled, and some tube lines are not working either (some parts of many lines are not underground). The streets are much emptier than normal, all lectures at the University were canceled for today (to be rescheduled)…it’s wonderful. Everyone’s loving it…everyone that’s outside, anyway.

It all started yesterday, with some periodic snowing during our football match, and things got heavy around 8 pm. Around nine there was at least 60 of us involved in a massive snowfight in the intersection outside, chucking snowballs amidst (gradually leaving) Porshes and Jaguars, a moving madness of snowing free-fall. The hard-core stayed out till after 2am. Much of today we spent in various snow-related activities in Hyde Park with unspurisingly massive numbers of other people of various sorts. ‘Twas fun. Tomorrow, should lectures be canceled, we will head to Primrose Hill.

There will be photos of a snow-covered London up….eventually.

UPDATE: Lectures canceled tomorrow, whee!

I found a tripod over winter break, yipee, and have endlich put it to use. The result you can see in the last gallery.

First came a mad bicycle rush through London’s twisting roads on bicycles, then a solid three hours of shooting time. We came by some protesters (against the Iraq war and the Gaza situation) in front of Westminster Palace; one of the fellows (a war veteran I believe) has apparently been there since the beginning of the Iraq war and refuses to move, and bills proposed to remove him never passed. When we made it to our ultimate destination, the London Eye, we did something I’d wanted to do for quite a while: painted with lights on long exposure photos. We used lights we got off our bicycles, and I dare say I’m pleased with the way they came out. Then another mad dash home, curry for dinner, and all you can do is wonder where the whole evening went..