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I am in love with both my lenses, the 70-200 and the 28mm, and I like to use them both. The result are quite different, the feeling of the photos are quite different. While the 28mm is a cheap lens, very slow in auto focus, the other one is fast and precise. The prism in the 40D is not very good for manual focus, so using the 28mm after having used the 70-200 is like riding in a normal car after having driven a Ferrari.
Shooting in the middle of a crowd with a long lens, as I have done this Sunday, it not always simple. Sometimes the clear shot you would like to achieve is impossible, and you have to accept the photo with its limitations.
In this shot I was hit by this guy, by his expression and his look… and his fantastic t-shirt of course! He saw me probably at the same time I saw him (I was quite visible), but between us there was someone. I framed him and waited, knowing where he was just because he couldn’t have gone anywhere else. Then, when we were really close, the person behind us moved away and I took some shots. This was the best, the one without many distractions.

Remember the articles about the “Sky Towers in Canary Wharf” and about “London and the Olympics 2012” – if you don’t you should go and have a quick skim read through them because, this article directly follows on what has been mentioned and its impact to the London Property Market - especially with regards to Canary Wharf.

What we will be talking is the launch of the West “Elektron” Tower near Canary Wharf.

The Elektron Development site is situated on the north side of the river Thames directly opposite the Millennium Dome. The London Property Development headed by Barratt’s Homes will encompass 3 towering 25-story blocks. Currently all of the Phases of the first 2 Tower Blocks built are now sold out. Barratt’s have now announced the launch of the “West Tower” and yes that means it is the last one and the final phase!

1 Bedroom apartments are going from £219, 995 – and for the current London Property Market it is affordable compared to many other areas.

Transport wise the Elektron has easy access to the “East India” Docklands Light Railway Station, which is only 4 DLR stops away from Canary Wharf and 1 DLR stop away from the Jubillee London Underground Line.

In our opinion (emphasis again, in our opinion) we believe with all the regeneration projects surround Canary Wharf and the East of London, it may be worth a visit to the Elektron and surrounding Property Developments. As first time buyers the properties are reasonably priced especially for its area; and for investors this may be that ideal property investment that you were looking for.

Good luck!

Images are taken from the Barratt’s Website www.barratthomes.co.uk/

My husband took our little family to this restaurant on Mother’s Day this year. It was a lovely (but cold) day, and was a perfect setting for a Mother’s Day brunch. Inn the Park is, as the name implies, in the middle of the lovely St. James’s Park, overlooking ‘duck lake’.

A couple weeks ago, with the warm summertime weather we were having, we went back for dinner on their terrace, and I was reminded of how much I love this restaurant. The tear-drop shape of the building was designed to fit into the ‘gently undulating landscape’ of London’s oldest royal park. You can’t see it from the road, and so it feels like a little treasure once you’re there. And surprisingly, this sleek restaurant is also extremely kid-friendly. (more…)

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London’s Olympic Stadium will seat around 80,000 people, but what makes the stadium unique is that it is being constructed with special flatpack materials which means that it can be easily taken down and moved to another place after the games.

Gizmodo shares some details about the stadium.

The stadium is to have a permanent 25,000 seat main structure, but for the Olympics they’ll also install a 55,000 seat upper tier. When the games are over, it can be (relatively) easily taken down and, if needed, shipped to another Olympic city for the next games. In fact, London is currently talking to Chicago, a possible host of the 2016 games, about sending the stadium their way.

However, the idea of having a megastadium in different cities appears to be rather interesting.

One could imagine a movable set of stadiums, moving from city to city and being set up for each games. It’s a cool idea, one that I could see grabbing hold as the real impact of having to build a megastadium every four years in a different city becomes more apparent.

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Today we all take MP3 players for granted. iPods are ubiquitous, mobile phones can play the format, even most new car stereos support MP3 right off the showroom floor. But it wasn’t always like this…

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Boris Johnson beat Ken Livingstone for the London Mayoral race. It was a very close call with Ken falling short of around 140,000 votes only! The results also showed that no candidate had enough votes for a majority thus reflecting a really diverse London. Liberal Democrat’s Brian Paddick came third and Sian Berry of the Green Party finished on fourth.

Like the spread of the votes, the reactions from people are also mixed. But I believe that this is good because those people who have not voted for Boris will always be at the edge of their seats to make sure that he actually delivers all his promises even when deep down inside, they are just wanting him to fail. I just hope that the good turnout of voters will also turn into an active participation in making our lives better in the capital.

For now, Mayor Boris Johnson deserves our benefit-of-doubt.

Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.