As I See It - David K Hardman Photography: park

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Monday, 12 November 2012

A Sunday in autumn, Greenwich Park

Saturday, 10 November 2012

Autumn in Greenwich Park

The church over the slope is Our Lady of the Sea, a Roman Catholic Church on Crooms Hill.
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Saturday, 20 October 2012

City colours

Sunday, 30 September 2012

A classic view of St. Paul's Cathedral

This view of St. Paul's Cathedral is taken from King Henry's Mound, the highest point in Richmond Park 10 miles away. Since 1710 the view from this point has been protected, preventing any developments that would obscure the cathedral. However, in 2005 Mayor Ken Livingstone sought to reduce the protection from one-and-a-half dome widths to a half-a-dome width. Subsequently, Mayor Boris Johnson promised to overturn this, but also approved a development at Victoria Station that would obscure the right hand corner (source: Wikipedia).

Friday, 7 September 2012

London 2012: Orbit at night

Friday, 31 August 2012

At London 2012: Maya Alessandra - musician

The London 2012 organisers invited a number of local musicians to play at the Olympic Park. On the first day of the Paralympics I stumbled upon this young woman singing beautiful songs to the passing visitors. According to her Facebook page, Maya Alessandra is now recording some of her music, so if you want to keep up to date about that and about her gigs then visit her page and click 'like'!

Photo tribute to the Olympics / Paralympics volunteers

It is hard to imagine how the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics could have been such a success without the many volunteers, whose hard work and cheerfulness has kept the show on the road. The following pictures have all been taken during the first few days of the Paralympics. Some of them were taken whilst the volunteers just went about their business, whilst in a few cases I went up and asked people if I could take their portrait picture.

A few hours before the Paralympics opening ceremony, volunteers at the Stratford Olympic Park gather in the rain.

At the Goalball event, volunteers blindfold the Swedish team (all competitors are blindfolded so that partially-sighted players do not have an advantage over blind competitors)

A volunteer wheels a trolley along Angel Lane in Stratford, with the
Athletes' Village in the background

A volunteer walks along Angel Lane towards the entrance to the Athletes' Village

On the steps to the Westfield Centre, Stratford.

In the Olympic Park

Taking a picture from the steps outside the Westfield Centre

A volunteer inside the Olympic Park

Another volunteer inside the Olympic Park

Two volunteers at the Goalball event. Sorry about the touch of lens flare on the face of the girl on the right (caused by the spotlight in the background - I didn't notice it when I took the picture).

Inside the Olympic Park

I'm not sure if the fellas in these last three pictures were actually volunteers. The black jackets suggest they might have been security; but nonetheless they were getting into the spirit of things!

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Common Terns

This blog entry has been modified since I originally posted it. Initially, I mistook these birds for arctic terns. They are in fact common terns, which are very similar; however, the arctic tern does not have so much black on its beak. This pair were photographed at the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park. I watched for about an hour or so, during which time the male kept disappearing for long periods and then returning with fish for the female. This is typical behaviour for the species prior to nesting and then mating.