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London photos this month: Flypass over Buckingham Palace for Queen's birthday, Brompton Cemetery, House where famous music group of 1960s lived in Flat L, 57 River Street, Hoop and Grapes pub survived Great Fire four hundred years ago, Shard Building named for looking like broken glass, Kensington Palace.
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Other London photos
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Took many tourist styled photos. These below were a few less usual ones.
Complete set
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At the Roman Wall
Leadenhall Market
Heritage Bus 15 (old Routemaster buses)
Odd man odd house
Westminster tube station
sailorsmom wrote:
Thanks for the tour, wrogers! It was fun!
Thanks all. I left one image out that was next to the tree decorations above
Outcropping near mayor's house deposited by the last ice age
Gold in them 'thar' hills?
Seasonal images around town
Lawn magic near Forest Park, Queens
Same lawn
Santa plane, high, high, high, ho, ho, ho
Outside NYC mayor's house (see conversation reflection in upper ball)
Storefront 'wirehaired' dog and reindeer man
Giant pocket watch
Some seasonal walk-around photos
For those who would like to see giant Christmas tree decorations I suggest a trip to New York on the Rockefeller Center Railroad
Perhaps half the size of a real steam engine
Maybe six feet wide each
Full size
Pop question: What eastern American city is this? It's not New York
East River pop art
The wharf-side infrastructure for ferrying freight cars across the East River from Long Island City in Queens NY to Manhattan was long-ago abandoned. Now bits of that infrastructure have been preserved as pop art. Here are a few photos of that pop art near the entrance to Long Island.
Hunters Point South Park (Gantry Plaza State Park) at the East River in Long Island City, NY
Pop art in metal
Freight train tracks once upon a time
Entrance to Long Island ?
Famous building across the river
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Took a day-after Thanksgiving trip to Oyster Bay, NY
Theodore Roosevelt built his home in 1885 with all the modern technology available of that day. However there was no electric power, so a windmill was used to pump water from the well to a holding tank on the third floor of the home to provide running water.
How windmill pumped well water
House
Barn
Leaving grounds, shot taken from driver's seat
Vertical-panorama storefront North Pole picture (Canon 6D, 24 mm lens, 1/25 second, f/8, 1600 ISO)
Let me give lots of credit to Canon and especially to Photoshop for the North Pole image taken through a Manhattan store window with the lens held flush to the window glasswhich removed reflections from the daylight on the street. Nonetheless, holding the camera in this position was too close to the subject to get everything in one shot. So I snapped three images using the 24 mm tilt-shift lens. One shot favored the top, one the middle and one the bottom of the subject). The shift lens wasnt really needed (but its what I had on the camera that day and did make things easier). Then with a keystroke, Photoshop miraculously stitched the three slightly different images together to create a single image that weighed 86 megabytes. The JPG image uploaded here is a 669 KB reduction of that Photoshop image.