Category Archives: Sculptures & Art

Jaguar Festival of Speed 2011 center Piece

As what now appears to be a “usual” scenario here is the first image of the center piece at the festival of speed 2011 right on the lawn in front of Goodwood House, this year celebrating 50 years of the Jaguar E-Type.

More images from today’s Moving Motor show to follow shortly inc some red arrows pics
I will back on Sunday to take shots of the racing, rally stage and the Vulcan display and maybe some F1 cars.
check back for more pics soon……

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The Atomium Brussels

Part 1 of a recent 4 day road trip across France, Belgium and Holland / The Netherlands.
Stopped off at Bruges firstly to get some fuel for the van but mostly so i could say i was “in Bruges”, then onto Brussels to visit the Atomium Building, built for the 1958 expo world fair and originally was supposed to be a temporary 6 month installation it still stands strong after over 50 years, the Atomium its self it has nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times and is situated in Heysel park just across the road from the Heysel football stadium.
To give and idea on the size of this for those of you that are local reading this the Height of the Atomium is 102 meters which is the same height as the spinnaker tower viewing deck give or take a few cms, however the main difference is that the Atomium is also nearly the same width as it is high thus in size dwarfing the Spinnaker tower.
Other random specs:
The spheres have a diameter of 59.0 ft. (2 buses)
The diagonal tubes are 75.4 ft. long and of 10.8 ft. diameter
The escalators installed inside the tubes of the Atomium are amongst the longest in Europe. The largest is 114.8 ft. long. They can take 3,000 persons per hour.
The elevator speed – the highest in Europe – is 16.4 ft./sec. It takes visitors up to the top sphere in 23 seconds and its capacity if 22 persons.





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Merry Christmas 2010

To all of my regular viewers an those who just happen to be here wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very happy New year 2011
unless something amazing happens with the weather this is probably my last post of 2010 see you in the new year.

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Festival of Speed Gallery 2010

Festival of Speed Gallery now up
The top half of the gallery will focus on pictures taken of moving objects, cars, bikes, planes from the moving motor show, the hill climb and the Forrest rally stages as well as the red arrows display.
and the lower half to follow in a few days will be of the static display cars
click on FoS Gallery above in the menu or …

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Festival of Speed 2010 center Piece

After the weekend has gone and i have sorted through all my images i will do a specific gallery for all the images rather than lots of posts, but mean while here is a slighty enhance hdr image of the center piece at the festival of speed 2010 right on the lawn in front of Goodwood House, this year celebrating 100 years of Alfa Romeo.

I will back on saturday to take shots of the racing, rally stage and the red arrows display and maybe some F1 cars.
check back for more pics soon……

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First sunrise of Artemis at Goodwood

My first ever Sunrise shoot, and for sure it didn’t go to plan at all, having stayed up all night at the trundle fog very nearly ruined everything sadly no shafts of sunlight hitting the statue but there’s always next time.
The trundle (St Roaches hill) An ancient iron age fort, is now a temporary home to something a little newer in Bronze.
Artemis a 30ft giant horses head cast in bronze Named by the creator/ sculptor Nic Fiddian-Green now stands tall overlooking the Sussex downs, glorious Goodwood, Chichester and a large section of the south coast.

As you can see in the second picture the entire singleton, Charlton and east dean valley was thick in fog giving a surreal image of this giant horses head appearing to float on the clouds.
this will definitely be the first of many trips as i cant fit in before the statue disappears for good…….

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The horse has now moved from the trundle and its location is now the private members area at the racecourse see here ………. Location

update 16/12/2010 horse now back on trundle see location link above

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Where has Artemis gone?

update 26/04/2011 horse now move down to racecourse for racing season click here to see location

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Where is Artemis NOW?

update 1/9/2011 Artemis moved mid august 2011 down to to the lawn at goodwood house back in a semi public space visible to all click here to see location

UPDATE 8-11-2011


Artemis now has a new home in Austrailia, He left the lawn at goodwood house this morning and will arrive in austraia some time in december. the following information was taken from a bbc article clik the link for full article….
A family have paid about £1m to buy a huge sculpture of a horse’s head and transport it from Sussex to Australia.

The 30ft (9.1m) high bronze called Artemis was created by artist Nic Fiddian-Green. It formerly stood on the Trundle on the South Downs.

Now an Australian family are taking it to Sydney to become a memorial at the grave of their late father.

Mr Fiddian-Green said the family had bought his work before and had a love of horses.
‘Something this personal’

The sculpture, which was sited at Goodwood House over the summer for the racing festival, is being transported to Southampton Docks before heading to New South Wales.

The artist said: “It’s going on to one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world – known as The Great Dividing Range – on their family estate as a memorial to their late father.

“It’s an honour to have been selected and to have made something that will mark something this personal – its something very profound.”

BBC Link

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Merry Christmas to one and all

Those of you that were lucky will have already seen this image as a personal limited edition printed Christmas card that i sent out last year, for those of you that havent or had an email from me this year, I would like to wish every one a merry christmas and a prosperous new year.

This image is of some “House Bling” or as some people refer to them as tasteful decorations shot in hunston xmas 2007.

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1000 Hits from 25 countries and counting…

Well as you know my site has been up a while now and after some mathematics and removing every time i log in today i have had 1000 hits on my website from 25 different countries which is above average according to Google… not bad for a 3 month old site.

Thank you to all that have visited and had a look and please come back also feel free to leave your comments under each post you can remain anonymous if you wish just make up an email address.

Heres some interesting facts for you … or maybe not….
when searching Google World Wide for “waynes photos” Ranked 2nd of about 42 million results
when searching Google uk for “waynes photos” Ranked 1st from 400,000 results

The busiest single day was 2nd July with 55 hits
The single most popular post overall has been The London Architecture Poll with 46 visits but only 15 votes :(
The average page view is 2.71 pages per visit, spending 3 minutes 17 seconds viewing those pages.
In reality there are a high number of single page visits staying for 10 seconds or less, but here have been a number of visitors how have stayed and given the site a thorough read through thanks you to Mondays visitor who stayed for 29 minutes reading 12 pages from the Uk. :)

55% of people visiting the site return for another look… :)
33% of visitors arrived from google or other search engines.

Overall there were visits from 25 countries around the globe in order of most hits first here are the stats

  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Italy
  • Romania
  • Ireland
  • Canada
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Denmark
  • South Africa
  • Belgium
  • Poland
  • Slovenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • France
  • Morocco
  • India
  • China
  • Argentina
  • Iran
  • Georgia
  • The 25th Country or region is … Unknown (ip region not set) so it could have come from anywhere

    There are hundreds more stats i could bore you with but i wont, but i will tell you that i can even tell the screen resolution of the pics or handheld devices the website is viewed on and i will be using this in future to maximise the size of the photos i put up.
    shame about the lens flare in this picture

    Sunset at East head, waynes photos

    hope i havent sent you to sleep, come back soon as i have some more images to post this week.

    Wayne

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    Avro Vulcan XH-558 – Goodwood Revival 2009

    I vividly remember standing on a raised bank by the river Lavant back in 1982 as a boy of 9 my mother standing next to me and the noise of this awesome amazing aircraft, i have waited 27 years to see this beauty in the sky above my head sadly my mum was not with me today but she was in my heart, and i will never forget the joy in her face jumping up and down in excitement when it flew over it gave me a shiver and a chill then as it did today, thank you to all at the vulcan to the sky trust that have made a cherished memory come to life again, long live the vulcan.

    Avro Vulcan - Revival 2009,waynes photos

    Shot from here (belated thanks to the land owner).

    Some information about the Avro Vulcan and what makes it so special designed in 1947, measuring 97ft or 29.59 meters long (that’s 2 1/2 buses) with a wingspan of 99ft or 30.18 meters with a top speed of 627mph (just under mach 1) so successful was the technology involved in the design of these aircraft the engines were later scaled up to power Concorde.
    All in all there were 136 Vulcan bombers built comprising of 2 prototypes 45 mk 1 and 89 mk 2 although only 16 remain in existence in museums there are 4 nose sections that were kept however XH558 is the ONLY fully working vulcan at this present time, and finally if you thought your car was high maintenance or not good miles per gallon this baby burns about £1000 of fuel every 20 mins.!!!! not for nipping to the shops.

    I wonder if i will ever get to photograph the Vulcan and Red arrows in the same picture another 27 years perhaps?

    Enjoy
    Wayne

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    London Architecture Poll

    Below is the poll i have put numbers on the images to match the poll as a reminder you may choose up to 2 favourites.

    Your favourite

    • 2 Tower Bridge & Fountains (42%, 8 Votes)
    • 6 More Water Fetaure (32%, 6 Votes)
    • 7 No.1 London Bridge (26%, 5 Votes)
    • 1 Lime Street (16%, 3 Votes)
    • 10 Willis & Lloyds Building (16%, 3 Votes)
    • 8 Moor House (11%, 2 Votes)
    • 4 GLC Real (5%, 1 Votes)
    • 5 GLC Lego (5%, 1 Votes)
    • 3 More London (0%, 0 Votes)
    • 9 More Offices (0%, 0 Votes)

    Total Voters: 19

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    You May click on the smaller images and scroll through for a reminder before you cast your vote if you wish.

    lime street london,waynes photosTower Bridge & Fountains,waynes photosMore Place water, London,waynes photosMore Place water, London,waynes photosGreater London Council City Hall,waynes photosGreater London Council, City Hall at Legoland,waynes photosMore Place officeswaynes photosNo.1 London Bridge,waynes photosMoor House, London,waynes photosWillis Buliding with  LLoyds of London reflection,waynes photos

    And Finally 1 last image
    st Marys axe
    30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Gherkin and the Swiss Re Building, is a skyscraper in London’s main financial district, the City of London. It is 180 metres (591 ft) tall, with 40 floors. Its construction symbolised the start of a new high-rise construction boom in London.
    This building is visible from most places in London, however the closer you get the harder is to photograph, this shot even on my 10-22mm Lens i still couldn’t get the whole thing in shooting on 10mm is about as wide as it goes but when close up has some distortion effects on the subject hence in this image “The Gerkin” looks more like and egg than a tall building.

    The Gerkin

    This brings an end to a weeks for of Urban exploring or “Ubrbanexing / urb ex” or what ever you want to call it and I hope you have enjoyed this weeks images as much as I have

    Wayne

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