Countdown - 100 days

100 days to the 2012 London Olympics and in a rather wet Trafalgar Square, the countdown continues.

Given the number of days to go, there was a media scrum and an "event" .....

And some tourists provided some colour on a rather drab day - given the weather here in London, it will be probably as wet in July in 100 days ...

The Square seems to attract footie supporters also - this time from visting Barca. Shame the result of the game didn't go their way.

Countdown Clock

Some early (and warm) spring sunshine and coloured shirts (some football, others not so) around the Olympic Clock can brighten up what can be a very gloomy and dull Trafalgar Square, as these images show.

Two recent days with sunshine - must be a record for London. How do I know there were two days ? No, not by the date on the shirt - rather the days remaining to the Olympics reads 152 on the Clock in the bottom image and then 137 in the top three....

Eggs - A Few Details

You may have read my previous post a few days ago on those colourful Eggs in central London here. Well,  here are a few details ......

I'll have to get into central London - sooner rather than later, find and then photograph some more, before they disappear...

Photographic Exhibition

 

My local photographic society is holding its annual exhibition next month - April 4th until April 15th - in Teddington, which you may be able to see from the poster above. Perhaps you may like to visit if you are in South West London then. I have to plead guilty to taking the image on that poster - an "infrared" image of Richmond Park. Have a closer look at it in my Flickr photostream here.

I suspect the purists amongst you out there won't regard it an "infrared" - it was taken on a regular (ie unconverted and digital) Nikon D80 with an "infrared" filter, cutoff point at 720nm, and it needed a little processing afterwards with Photoshop. Does this matter ? Not in my opinion. However, I have to say that I still prefer the results I used to get from Kodak HIE infrared film. Shame it is no longer manufactured.....

Colourful Eggs

You can find some very colourful - and monochromatic - objects in the streets and parks in central London. In 2010 there was the Elephant Parade, now this last week we have Eggs.

A notice on the plinth underneath each Egg says there are some 200 of these in London, and you can text a phone number to get clues on their location - which several people were doing at the above (no I didn't photograph them - they were doing enough of that with their camera phones!)

I'm sure I'll find more on my meanders, just as I found those elephants. According to the notice they'll be around for 40 days and 40 nights. Must get my calendar out and check - does that get me up to Easter ?

A New 4th Plinth Artwork

A new artwork arrived on the fourth plint in Trafalgar Square this week - ‘Powerless Structures Fig. 101', replacing the Ship in a Bottle which was there previously - you may have seen my previous postings on the various offerings on trhe fourth plinth elsewhere in this blog.

Some good early spring sunlight and a vivid blue sky assisted my humble photographic efforts here and my polarising filter - which can at times be an almost permanent addition on my lens - was unnecessary on this occasion.  Whilst I don't always like aircraft vapour in my images, in the case of the 4th image above, perhaps they add something ?

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but what does the title of the artwork mean ?

159 Days and Counting

Even on a cold Sunday morning in February of an Olympic year - and with 159 days to go (there is no  paticular significance in this number for me) to the Opening Ceremony, folks are still  having their photo taken at the countdown clock in Trafalgar Square.

I've posted some images previously - of people and this  clock - over the last few months. On this ocassion I photographed from across the Square,  and as you can see above, some of the picture takers as well. I hope they have happy memories of London.