London 2010 New Year Day Parade, take 1

Here are the short videos put together, it will give a good taste of that parade, also I think I'll have to spend more time later, to combine it with speech, relating my feelings or impressions, but for sure some of the pictures I took of those in the parade.

New Year Parade 2010 London - Mix1
by julie70

The hand taking photos is not mine, another woman took for some time as many as me if not more and perching, even disturbed me a lot at the beginning. 


Here is the long one of different takes but this takes 9 minutes in all, should I add "space" photos in it? cut?

Granada, song and music

As it snows and if not the roads are icy, I stay home and slowly, upload my videos from the great spectacle the 19th December in Granada.

Granaaada
by julie70

Here is one, called "Granada" in Spanish of course, but a good tenor and music are international.

From the window

This was taken yesterday morning at eight, a wonderful sunrise from my window.

Today, I had the surprise to find everything covered with a thin lawyer of snow, but the sky is covert. I did not see snowing yet, but it will arrive soon. Happy that I do not have to go out, unless I really want to, until tonight.

Brr. The winter is here now, the "real winter", fall seems far away.

But the new year activities begun, yesterday with my grand children preparing their lessons for today, first day of school, and today, with me going to my first Toastmasters meeting of the year.

A father from USA wrote me this morning: "did you take my daughter's band photos, they also demonstrated in London's New year parade?" Is not flickr and the web wonderful?! Now, me freezing and taking photos and videos in center, the first of January has taken for me yet another color, and interest. I hope, I'll find his daughter between my images, so his father from far away can see her.

I have a Television!

This would not be interesting, but for nine whole years I did not have a television, so for me it is a new thing.

Nine years ago, it was me who decided, after having be obliged to sleep later, as my husband wanted to see the programs late and the tele was very near our bed, I had enough: computer is more important for me and I do not want to waist my time looking at the, often bad, teve programs.

I did not really miss it, and when I arrived in London, there was a very bad tele here that I could use, when it worked, mostly I used it to look at speeches in the Parliament and some news. It was huge and very heavy and finally I got read of it.

Now I have a small but numeric and thin television, I hope, listening, from time to time, will improve my English, and, sometimes, bring me some amusement too. Perhaps, I will be also to look through it in a bigger size then my portable computer, to my photos. 22 inch is not so bad already!

Common effort

Better seen in big size HERE Click on the picture, makes it even bigger, the second one smaller again.
This is the fruit of long and common effort.

First, a photowalk due to John Levett, who leads the Greenwich London Independent Photographer's group, last spring. It was then that I discovered that wall in Depford. It fascinated me, but being so big and so long, I did not know what to do with it, other then take a few details here or there.

Last month, in the Flickr Afterclass group, we studied about Panoramas. I did not know really how to use it effectively yet nor how to stitch pictures together.I just felt, once it could be important.

Yesterday, I was walking with blogger and flickr friends, the same that invited me to their place mid England last spring and showing them that wall. Suddenly, I decided it could be a good panorama subject, being so long and, after me, interesting. Drawn by children from the nearby houses.

In the evening, I also discovered that my own Photoshop Elements 6 that I used so long time already can Photomerge! And this morning, full of new energy I did it. Here it is, thank to all who contributed to it.

Good new year 2010 with friendship, of different people, as it shows on this wall of Depford, London.

London's New Year Parade details

Today I looked through the photos that I did not put yesterday on the web, and found interesting scenes and details.

Human interactions.

Human emotions.

Young and old, it was a great day for us, but young and old, it was even a greater day for those who were in the parade.

Here are some pictures from the second set, from my today morning's upload.


Good new year to all of you!

Freezing sunny New Year in London

Some pictures from the New Year day parade in center London