Tuesday's Time Lapse - Is Christmas Time (a London Time Lapse)

Check out this London Christmas time lapse.  Info on this movie here.  Merry Christmas!

Tuesday's Time Lapse - Around the Globe (through a Snow Globe)

More info about this time lapse movie here.  Also, here's a link to the photographer's "snow globe" time lapse of Los Angeles from last year.

100 Days Until the 2012 London Olympic Games

This is a Visa ad about the Olympics I thought was very well done.  The ad features the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.

Trafalgar Square - The Fourth Plinth

Okay, this has nothing to do with photography.  It's just something I really wanted to share.

There are four plinths in London's Trafalgar Square.  (A plinth is a base or platform upon which a statue is normally placed.)  As it turns out, one of the four plinths (know as the Fourth Plinth) is empty.  Please watch the video above to see what artist Antony Gormley wanted to do with the Fourth Plinth in his project entitled One & Other.

One you've had the chance to watch his video, go to this link: http://vimeo.com/13127106.  It's a short film about how the project turned out.  I wish this would have been planned for the Olympics.  At a minimum, I would have liked to have seen this.  If there had been any chance, I also would have loved to have been a participant.  Hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

London Markets - Part 3

As a follow-up to my 01-02-12 post on Borough Market, here's a link to an interesting post with photos from Borough Market.

201 Days Until the 2012 Olympic Games

Ran across this video a day or two ago; couldn't even tell you how I found it.  Wish I had seen it sooner so I could have posted it on New Year's Day.

Since this blog is really a trial run for my Olympic blog and we're finally in the Olympic year, I thought I would go ahead and post the video anyway.  It's the BBC's New Year's Eve show including the fireworks at midnight from London (seeing fireworks coming out of Big Ben is pretty cool).  The BBC announcer is pretty entertaining as well.  It is a bit long (18 minutes), but try to hang in there for at least the first eight minutes.

On the official London 2012 Olympic website, they've got some photos showing the preparations being made for the games.

Back to the States, here's the commercial NBC put together for the Olympics last July (approximately a year before the start of the Games).

London Markets - Part 2

The other London market I really enjoy going to is Borough Market.  As the photos below indicate, this market is all about food.

London Markets - Part 1

One of the things I enjoy most about London is the variety of markets.  They have markets for everything: antiques, food, clothing, books and even pets.  The one market I try to go to every time I'm in London is the Portobello Market.  The Portobello Market stretches for about two miles along Portobello Road.

While the Portobello Market is best know for its antiques, you can find just about anything amongst its numerous stalls.

Portobello Road runs through the Notting Hill section of West London.  Notting Hill is very picturesque and was the backdrop for the film of the same name.

Notting Hill Gate is the closest tube (subway) station to Portobello Market.

Some More of London

Across the Pond

A business associate of mine is in London this week and he had asked me for some sightseeing suggestions before he left.  Since that's where this blog will eventually go, I thought I'd share some of my London pictures over the next few days.  These photos of a few London icons were taken in 2007 and 2009.