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the world is round..
Made by Aristotle Liu
I'm Famous Millennium Dome aka The O2 Centre - London, Greenwich 13s f/20, ISO 400 The dome is the largest of its type in the world. Externally, it appears as a large white marquee with twelve 100 m-high yellow support towers, one for each month of the year, or each hour of the clock face, representing the role played by Greenwich Mean Time. In plan view it is circular, 365 m in diameter — one metre for each day of the year — with scalloped edges. It has become one of the United Kingdom's most recognisable landmarks. It can easily be seen on aerial photographs of London. Its exterior is reminiscent of the Dome of Discovery built for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The architect was Richard Rogers. He and the contractor was a joint venture company, McAlpine/Laing Joint Venture (MLJV) formed between Sir Robert McAlpine and Laing Management. The building structure was engineered by Buro Happold, and the entire roof structure weighs less than the air contained within the building. Although referred to as a dome it is not strictly one as it is not self-supporting, but is a mast-supported, dome-shaped cable network. For this reason, it has been disparagingly referred to as the Millennium Tent. The canopy is made of PTFE-coated glass fibre fabric, a durable and weather-resistant plastic, and is 52 m high in the middle. Its symmetry is interrupted by a hole through which a ventilation shaft from the Blackwall Tunnel rises. Apart from the dome itself, the project included the reclamation of the entire Greenwich Peninsula. The land was previously derelict and contaminated by toxic sludge from an earlier gasworks that operated from 1889 to 1985. The clean-up operation was seen by the then Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine as an investment that would add a large area of useful land to the crowded capital. This was billed as part of a larger plan to regenerate a large, sparsely populated area to the east of London and south of the River Thames, an area initially called the East Thames Corridor but latterly marketed as the Thames Gateway.
IMG_101_0889 - EXPLORED
Made by clivester
The Docklands, London - 31st October 2009 17:03 The view from Pontoon Dock DLR (Docklands Light Railway) station. This was never going to be original, and although there were no other photographers standing with me on the westbound platform that night, there are countless images taken from the same spot. The tracks of the DLR lead you down and round to The o2 takes centre stage, behind which stand the towers of Canary Wharf. I had planned to capture sunset however the cloud rolled in an made the lighting dull and flat, so I wandered off to the Thames Barrier (less than 5 minutes away) and back to capture the lights - and I only did that as I had seen the just a couple of days earlier. The o2 (formally the Millennium Dome) is the largest such structure in the world and is rather like a giant circular marquee supported by twelve supports (one for each month of the year, or each hour on a clock face); it is 365m in diameter (one meter for each of the days of the year). It cost £789m, and hosted a year long festival in 2000 to celebrate the new Millennium. It was converted into The o2 in 2005 as an entertainments venue. This image is SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) aside from the normal RAW processing and sharpening. This is my tenth image that has made it into Explore! Highest position: #437 (16th November 2009)
North Greenwich Towers
Made by Kevin_Mitchell
Taken from the next to the O2 at sunset with 9 images at +/- 1EV to create an HDR image. My first ever HDR image! Please tell me what you think, comments and constructive criticism is always welcome. ............................................. Nikon D300 Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8 .9 ND Grad ............................................. North Greenwich is a 19th century name for the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was named for the now defunct North Greenwich railway station (1872), that served a former passenger ferry to Greenwich and stood near the later Island Gardens (1897) and Greenwich foot tunnel (1902) [1]. It faces Greenwich over the River Thames and the area is now more usually known as South Millwall. It should not be confused with the northern part of the Greenwich peninsula in South London, formerly known as East Greenwich that lies south of the river and is the site of the The O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome). The opening in 1999 of the North Greenwich tube station on London Underground's Jubilee Line has now led to this area being known colloquially as North Greenwich. - Wikipedia ............................................. If you like my work, Please add me as a contact.
Floaters
Made by Mrs eNil
The weekend of 20th June saw Neil and I headed to the capital to the O2 arena where we attended the spectacular Pet Shop Boys concert. The show was fabulous and we had some great seats. It was the first time either of us had been to the O2 arena and we were amazed at just how huge it is! Unfortunately, for the second weekend in a row, we fell foul of the 'powers that be' aka 'security staff' who relieved us of our cameras before we entered the stadium. We were rather annoyed to say the least especially as there were thousands of people merrily using their point and shoots with flash and without a thought for the performing artists. On our way out of the performance we reclaimed our cameras - which had been kept in an unlocked drawer by the security guards - and took a few shots outside. However, we were asked politely but by someone who was actually very racist in what he said, to not take any more photos as it was a security risk! FFS - there are pictures of the arena all over the bloody internet. Grrr! Anyway, sorry about the soap box, there were a couple of shots I was brave enough to take inside - this being lots of blue balls hanging inside! See them
Blackwall Tunnel. London - England (File:IMG_6529)
Made by Beto Frota
The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the London Borough of Greenwich, and part of the A102 road. History The older western tunnel was designed by Sir Alexander Binnie and built by S. Pearson & Sons, between 1892 and 1897. It was originally commissioned by the Metropolitan Board of Works but responsibility passed to the London County Council when the former body was abolished in 1889. The cost of the project was £1.4 million, and seven lives were lost during construction. The tunnel was officially opened by the Prince of Wales on 22 May 1897. The tunnel was constructed using tunnelling shield and compressed air techniques; the shield pioneer James Henry Greathead was a consultant. Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the architect of the London sewerage system, was also involved in the original planning of the project. To clear the site in Greenwich, more than 600 houses had to be demolished, including one reputedly once owned by Sir Walter Raleigh.
UK - London - Millennium Dome - Boy, 1999 by Ron Mueck - sq
Made by Darrell Godliman
My visit to the Millennium Dome back in 2000 was the first time I saw any of Ron Muecks sculptures. This 5m high glassfibre and silicon crouching boy seemed right at home in the vast space of the Dome but was netherless an unsettling object. This piece can now be found in the art museum ARoS in the city of Aarhus, Denmark. If you're not familiar with his work I'd encourage you to look him up as some of it is quite thought provoking, if a little sinister. 'Ron Mueck (born 1958) is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in Great Britain. Mueck's early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children's television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo, and the Jim Henson series The Storyteller.' 'Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images. His five metre high sculpture Boy 1999 was a feature in the Millennium Dome and later exhibited in the Venice Biennale.'
LIFE IS GOLDEN
Made by mpaulda™
LONDON GOES BLACK HERE Built across a 572 yard wide stretch of the river, the barrier divides the river into four 200 feet and two 34 yd navigable spans and four smaller non-navigable channels between nine concrete piers and two abutments. The flood gates across the openings are circular segments in cross section, and they operate by rotating, raised to allow underspill to allow operators to control upstream levels and a complete 180 degree rotation for maintenance. All the gates are hollow and made of steel up to 1½ inches thick. The gates fill with water when submerged and empty as they emerge from the river. The four large central gates are 220 feet long, 35 feet high (above local ground level) and weigh 3,500 tonnes; the outer two gates are 100 feet. Additionally, four radial gates by the riverbanks, also 100 feet long, can be lowered. These gate openings, unlike the main six, are non-navigable. THAMES BARRIER London UK
On A Spring Evening!
Made by pallab seth
Exif data Camera Nikon D3100 18-55mm VR Kit Lens Exposure 1.3 Aperture f/4.0 ISO Speed 220 Exposure Bias 0 EV No Post-Processing! No HDR! As I have no tripod at that time, I used the support of the railings guarding the embankment! Canary Wharf from the Thames A major business district located in London, United Kingdom. It is one of London's two main financial centres, alongside the traditional City of London, and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings. Around 90,000 people work in Canary Wharf in around 14,000,000 square feet of office and retail space and it is home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks, professional services firms and media organisations including Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, KPMG, and Thomson Reuters. Canary Wharf is located in the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs in the Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Wharf
Led Zeppelin 10thDec 2007 O2 Arena
Made by positivelypurple
Led Zeppelin are my all time favourite. When I was 16 my ambition in life was to marry Jimmy Page! Well I was 16. They had broken up by the time I'd discovered them so I always thought that I would never see them play live. Even when they announced that they would play at the Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert I thought that I'd never get a ticket. 20 million people applied for tickets, only 18,000 tickets were available. I didn't get one. But my brother-in-law did, he was taking my nephew. I must say I was so envious that they got tickets but also delighted, especially for my nephew who is 14 and a crazy Zeppelin fan already. Then last Wednesday night my brother-in-law asked me would I like to go to the concert instead of him. I cried like a 16 year old. I couldn't believe my luck. So thanks to my amazing and very generous brother-in-law I saw my idol live on stage and he was amazing. I can't thank you enough Mark you are the best brother -in -law in the world. xx
Alien High Priest
Made by Bryan Trismegistus
The shimmering force curtains of the space cathedral finally parted, and the high-priest drifted into view. It carried blisters of light with it, fixed to it's skin, and in it's arms, exposed for all to see, was it's brain, pulsing with deep red power... You really have to see this one full size I'm afraid (same as with most macros). Personally, I think it's stunning. For those who can't tell what this is... It's an orchid. The shot was taken outdoors, in summer, immediately after a freak rain-shower on a sunny day. The flower was web from the rain, and I took this image with my D80, a tripod, and my trusty 60mm micro-nikkor. In post-processing I brought up the saturation. The background was white on two of the sides (cut-outs), but I had to intervene to make the third side look the same.
Hidden Greenwich: In the Shadow of the Dome
Made by Gregory Warran
Abandoned Homes. As you approach the Blackwall Tunnel Northbound there's a slip road that takes you into an industrial wasteland that hardly anyone ever sees. The land that the O2 didnt want. Forgotten and abandoned homes and a cafe/hotel that is no longer used. Literally a stones throw from some of the South Easts busiest locations yet a place that most people who go there will never see. My guess is that once this was on a street. A street that was destroyed by the O2 and this was the only 2 houses that didnt need to be knocked down and were left outside the wall gathering dust. The ironic thing is that were this not on a virtual industrial wasteland and was in fact sitting 50 metres to the left within the O2 boundary these would probably cost about £600K each.
London : Big & Bold
Made by pallab seth
Canary Wharf A major business district located in London, United Kingdom. It is one of London's two main financial centres, alongside the traditional City of London, and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings. Around 90,000 people work in Canary Wharf in around 14,000,000 square feet of office and retail space and it is home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks, professional services firms and media organisations including Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, KPMG, and Thomson Reuters. Canary Wharf is located in the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs in the Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Wharf No Tripod, No Photoshop, No HDR!
Futuristic Masts
Made by pallab seth
Please press L (or simply click the image) to view on black The 'Futuristic' Millennium Dome, colloquially referred to simply as The Dome, is the original name of a large dome-shaped building, originally used to house the Millennium Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome Now, The O2, is a large entertainment district including an indoor arena, a music club, a Cineworld cinema, an exhibition space, piazzas, bars and restaurants. More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O2_(London) At Sunset, The O2, Greenwich Peninsula, South-East London
Today I "Joel Grimed" Joel Grimes :-)
Made by Mark L Edwards
Taken and processed earlier today at the Joel Grimes workshop in Greenwich, London organised by www.DigitalIQ-photographic.co.uk Two gridded soft-boxes left and right and a overhead soft-box using Elinchrom studio 500 lights with wireless triggers. Not really the ideal HDR background but I wanted to use something taken over the weekend. This was 100yds from the Anchor & Hope pub where we all went Saturday night to eat. So in one way it was right background you could say almost authentic! Camera: Canon EOS 5D Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6) Background only Aperture: f/7.0 Background only Focal Length: 24 mm Background only ISO Speed: 400 Background only
Canary Wharf
Made by pallab seth
Canary Wharf from the Thames A major business district located in London, United Kingdom. It is one of London's two main financial centres, alongside the traditional City of London, and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings. Around 90,000 people work in Canary Wharf in around 14,000,000 square feet of office and retail space and it is home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks, professional services firms and media organisations including Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, KPMG, and Thomson Reuters. Canary Wharf is located in the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs in the Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Wharf
Thames Barrier Park
Made by Nikonmania
I took this on Sunday the 13th July at the reststop for the 2008 Bikeathon, a charity bike ride around London. The Thames Barrier Park is a 22 acres (8.9 ha) park in London's docklands, named after its location on the north side of the River Thames next to the Thames Barrier. It is intended to aid the regeneration of the area by creating an attractive public space alongside residential and commercial developments. It is adjacent to Pontoon Dock DLR station in the Silvertown area of the London Borough of Newham. Alain Provost of Groupe Signes won the international competition to design the park in 1995. As the first largely post-modern design in London, the park has a fresh modern look with adventurous planting and dancing water fountains.
Thames Barrier
Made by art_morpheus
View On Black The Thames Barrier is a unique flood control structure on the River Thames at Woolwich Reach in East London. It is 520 meters across and protects London against flooding caused by tidal surges from the North Sea. It took eight years to build the structure, costing £535m (£1300m at 2001 prices) and became fully operational in 1982. I have used Photomatix to merge 3 exposures. then I have use Photoshop cs3 to apply some textures, clean the river with healing brush, some sharpening and contrast and color correction and here it is. Please do not hesitate to comment.
Balls
Made by jonwild
Last picture from London. We were at the NHL Premiere event at the O2 arena watching the LA Kings & the Anaheim Ducks open the new NHL Ice Hockey season, playing a regular season game for the first time in europe. The building is like having the MEN arena plopped down in the middle of the Trafford Centre food hall - but despite all that we quite liked it. They have a fairly strict no camera rule so didn't even bring the Canon - although saw a few DSLRs inside. This is an art installation/scrolling notice board just inside the main entrance.
London - Thames Barrier - August 2006 - No Barrier to Happiness
Made by gareth1953
Our son was at University just down the road in the East End of London so when we visited him there one sunny Sunday afternoon. We decided to visit the Thames Barrier and the new gardens that had just been added as an extra attraction. Well worth a visit. As you probably have guessed he took this picture and we were delighted with it. The barrier itself is the major part of defence against flooding in London. It expected to remain useful for another 30 years before a more substantial replacement is needed.
City At Sunset
Made by pallab seth
Canary Wharf At Sunset A major business district located in London. It is one of London's two main financial centres, alongside the traditional City of London, and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings. Around 90,000 people work in Canary Wharf in around 14,000,000 square feet of office and retail space and it is home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks, professional services firms and media organisations including Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, KPMG, and Thomson Reuters.
