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The Atomium Brussels

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 14th, May, 2011

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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Manor Road Garage “Open”

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 2nd, Feb, 2011

An Image from the archives Manor road garage in east preston will shortly re-opens its doors this time though not as a garage, it has been refurbished into flats, I’m yet to revisit to see what it looks like but hopefully soon will go over and do an “after” picture but for now i gave this one a bit of a tweak in photoshop ……

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Merry Christmas 2010

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Friday, 24th, Dec, 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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Racton Ruins – monument – folly light painting

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Monday, 1st, Feb, 2010

After many trips and nearly 2 years of trying I have finally ticked of another one of my sites, on a long list.
Below is a shot I took while messing around (in -6 temperatures), just for fun, the folly is lit by the full moon coming through the tree which was casting shadows onto the walls, giving that extra spooky feel.

Racton Folly:The tower was built around 1772 for the nearby 1,750 acre Stansted Estate, probably as a summer house although it is shown on maps as a monument. It consists of a two storey triangular structure with three corner towers attached, from this rises a large tapering central tower which has three floors to it, this originally had a conical roof. The central tower, as well as the three corner structures, were also castellated at one time, although this feature like all the interior floors, has now disappeared. Some say that its original purpose was as summer house however, an alternative possibility is that it was built by the then owner so that he could see his trading ships berth at Emsworth, then a major port. Either way, it perhaps qualifies today more as a curiosity than a folly.

Wikipedia: Folly

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Enjoy

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Chichester Snow pictures – update

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Friday, 8th, Jan, 2010

Here are some more images from my Tuesday night walk about in the snow, they were all taken at night and i have edited the orange street lighting out of them.
not what I would call fantastic photos but I thought I would share none the less.



Heres hoping for more snow at the weekend

Enjoy

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Fun in the snow

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 6th, Jan, 2010

As any one who visits my site regularly, you will know im not one for portraits or people in my photos, but these 2 young ladies were having so much fun for me they seemed to capture one of the many joys that snow can bring, as usual there were “other” young females in the street that had to much to drink could barely stand up let along walk in the snow with high heels on i did laugh when she fell over (oooops) however these 2 young lasses were what i would call nice or normal people. i did promise to put the pics up so they could see them…. if you still want copies email me wayne@waynesphotos.co.uk

Should i steer clear of people from now on?… or should i put more people in my photos?

Feedback please….

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A cold looking St Richard in the snow

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 6th, Jan, 2010

This is one of a number of pictures i took whilst out in the snow tonight a photo of St. Richard of Chichester with snow on him plus his shadow on the wall with snow falling. i used some fill in flash and it turned the snow blue!

come back soon for more snowy pictures

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New from cafe nero for limited time only…….

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Tuesday, 5th, Jan, 2010

Whilst on my travels through Chichester this evening taking random snowy pictures, i came across this cup and thought it was quiet quirky, sometimes we wander along so fast we just don’t notice the little things in life….

i present to you the limited offer only from cafe nero the new “iced cappuccino”

enjoy

wayne

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Merry Christmas to one and all

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Monday, 21st, Dec, 2009

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…

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 14th, Oct, 2009

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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