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London Eye

The London Eye (or Millenium Wheel as it is also called) is clearly visible in this shot of London City Center taken last weekend as my plane banked on approach to Heathrow Airport.

We arrived around 7am when it was still dark. Thankfully I had my camera in a small bag at hand because I had missed some great shots of Tuscon, Arizona because my camera had been tucked away in the overhead bins.

Sorry for the large file size. It’s a noisy image, and Jpeg compression isn’t that great with random noise.

Aperture ƒ/3.5
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 18mm
ISO 3200
Shutter speed 1/20s

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23 responses to “London Eye”

  1. Flickr: ladyb avatar
    Flickr: ladyb

    wow, love that…

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  2. Flickr: Traces in the Sand avatar
    Flickr: Traces in the Sand

    wow!! That’s great. there’s a lot of great stuff you can see there. Waterloo looks rather good from above as well

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  3. Flickr: Alan Cotter avatar
    Flickr: Alan Cotter

    very impressive shot… i like!.

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  4. joseph avatar
    joseph

    wow! that’s nice! i cant believe this is Lodon, a big place… then beutiful skyscrape.heheeh

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  5. Anthony avatar
    Anthony

    Great shot Donncha.

    Just as an aside, this entry appeared with a 🙂 smilie in the feed but that isn’t in the post itself. I’ve found this with all of my own blog entries of late. Does it have something to do with the WP Voyeur plugin?

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  6. Donncha avatar
    Donncha

    Anthony – that’s blog voyeur alright! Strangely enough, the only feeds I’ve seen that smiley on are Irish blogs. I’m sure others have installed it but I’m obviously not subscribed to any of those other blogs!

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  7. Daragh Mc Grath avatar
    Daragh Mc Grath

    Ach Donncha, you just cropped off a shot of my Apartment to the right! And thanks for waving as well!! 😛

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  8. Donncha avatar
    Donncha

    Daragh – I was gong to wave, but you were in the shower and I didn’t want to scare you!

    I took a couple of shots, I’ll see later if I have one with more visible from the right 🙂

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  10. Daragh Mc Grath avatar
    Daragh Mc Grath

    LOL, don’t think I should add anything further to this discussion!

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  11. Flickr: JohnFinn avatar
    Flickr: JohnFinn

    Very impressive Donncha. The noise is very well controlled even at 3200 ISO.

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  12. Flickr: Donncha @ InPhotos.org avatar
    Flickr: Donncha @ InPhotos.org

    Thanks everyone! It was hard enough to get good shots. I had to:
    1. Use ISO 3200 (a custom function setting on the 20D)
    2. -2 EV because I didn’t care about exposing for the darkness
    3. The aperture wide open at F/3.5.

    Even then it was a longish exposure on a fast moving plane with bumps and shaking. I was *very* glad when I saw the shot come out!

    If I had my camera in my lap while approaching Tuscon I might have grabbed a couple of stunning shots because of the American street grid system and the land was so flat. I didn’t want to miss another chance after that!

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  13. Flickr: Fenstar avatar
    Flickr: Fenstar

    that’s outstanding, well done

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  14. Flickr: Neil Dorgan avatar
    Flickr: Neil Dorgan

    Very lucky & skillful to get such a great shot through a plane window.

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  15. Flickr: katiecor avatar
    Flickr: katiecor

    brilliant shot

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  16. Flickr: foolswisdom avatar
    Flickr: foolswisdom

    Wow! Is this an image you had wanted to / planned on capturing or did it just land in your lap?

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  17. Christine avatar
    Christine

    Ok, that is *seriously* awesome. I can see the Eye, the train station, Shell’s office building (where my husband used to work), you can sort of tell where Leicester Square and that area is … so cool!

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  18. Flickr: endless81 avatar
    Flickr: endless81

    cool pic

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  19. Bettythesheep avatar
    Bettythesheep

    Wow, very impressive photograph!

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  20. Flickr: +joe avatar
    Flickr: +joe

    nice shot

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  21. Flickr: oZ mAnIaK avatar
    Flickr: oZ mAnIaK

    Amazing !

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  22. AnaiD avatar
    AnaiD

    Wow, it’s so impressive, the shot is brilliant. I’d really like to see it! Great!

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  23. London Sightseeing Tours avatar
    London Sightseeing Tours

    What a wonderful shot of London, if you can look hard you can also see Westminster all lit up just opposite and right from the London Eye on the river.

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