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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.
Commetns and feedback welcome
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Posted in Architecture, night photography, NightScapes, Sculptures & Art, urbanexing
Also tagged amsterdam, atomium, belgium, bruges, brussel, brussels, bruxells, dusk, enschede, europe, expo 58, factory, Light, low, night, photography, polaroid, road, Sunset, tour, travel, trip
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……
Posted in Architecture, Landscapes, Sculptures & Art, Vehicles
Also tagged 2010, alfa romeo, arrows, chichester, F1, festival of speed, Goodwood, hdr, house, landscape, rally, red, revival, Special days, sussex, uk
Chichester Snow pictures – update
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
Posted in Architecture, Landscapes, night photography, NightScapes, Snowscapes, urbanexing
Also tagged cathedral, chichester, level, Light, low, night, night photography, park, priory, snow, snowscape
A cold looking St Richard in the snow
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
Posted in Architecture, night photography, urbanexing
Also tagged chichester, low level light, snow, st richard
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
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
hope i havent sent you to sleep, come back soon as i have some more images to post this week.
Wayne
Posted in Architecture, Family, Landscapes, Nature, night photography, Notes, Portraits, Sculptures & Art, Sunset, Uncategorized, urbanexing, Vehicles
Also tagged Avro, blog, bognor regis, bosham, bournemouth, bridge, chichester, dungeness, dusk, equipment, festival of speed, Fran & Ken, full moon, Goodwood, gunwharf quays, halnaker, halnaker windmill, hdr, low level light, Moon, more place, night photography, novatech, pier, portsmouth, rainbow, red arrows, reflection, revival, roof tops, Special days, spinnaker tower, statistics, Stats, sun sculpture, Sunset, sussex, trails, uk, urbanexing, Vulcan, website, windmill, wittering
Dungeness Lighthouse Panorama
Todays post is an edited image from the archives earlier this year, using a program called Autostitch i have merged together a sequence of images shot from on top of the old lighthouse at dungeness.
The Old Lighthouse is 151 feet high (46m) and provides stunning views of the surrounding area, while the website claims to be a great family trip i would stress that although going up is nice it’s not some where you would visit unless you were in the area, we added it on to the end of a sounds mirrors trip, some of you maybe aware that i have a bit of a height fobia, i was less than half way up the first flight of stairs when i felt my stomach twirl, the inside of the lighthouse has 4 internal floors so there is plenty of opportunity to rest however the staircases are very open and you can see along way down, the penultimate flight was the worst. Upon arriving at the top there is one final flight which is more like a ladder but enclosed so was easy, at the top you enter into the lens housing which is pretty awesome and there is a tiny doorway about 2 1/2 ft square which you crawl through to get right out on top, now i managed that but when outside my legs refused to work so i couldn’t stand up, i must stress the balcony although perfectly safe is a little rusty, and appears to look like its going to fall off add this to exceptionally high winds 40+ mph (nearly time to change underwear), any how i made it out alive and intend to do it again when its not windy maybe one day i will conquer my fear.
From the top you can see the new lighthouse, cafe, nuclear power station and Dungeness Station, the final stop of the famous Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Light Railway re-opened after WWII in 1947 by Hollywood Stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The Railway runs a regular service through from Hythe for most of the year.
Location.
Manor Road Garage East Preston
Manor road Garage was built in the 1930′s and was used until at least the 80′s. it was run by a gentleman called Mr. Lillywhite who seemed to have dabbled in any business he could from the property, he had steam rollers for road making, there was even a car still on the ramps, wonder who didn’t get their car back? He also had a small nursery behind the garage, which he sold to build house’s on in the 50′s.
The building is grade 2 listed and is due to be turned into flats re-using the existing façade which will be transformed to its former glory including a full refurb of all 4 pumps apparently the original glass bowls for the top of the pumps were inside the building.
which is nice….
Enjoy
Wayne
Posted in Architecture, urbanexing
Also tagged art, britain, deco, Derelict, down, east, flats, forgotten, Forgotten Britain, garage, hdr, littlehapmton, manor, new, preston, road, run, rustington, sussex, uk, urbanexing, wick
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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And Finally 1 last image
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.
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
Posted in Architecture, Landscapes, Sculptures & Art, urbanexing
Also tagged bridge, hdr, Legoland, London, more place, reflection, Special days, uk, urbanexing
London Architecture Day 6
Today is the final day for new images, tomorrow there will be a reminder and your chance to vote for your favourite image of this week.
Both of today’s images are revisits to areas or subject previously posted this week, firstly is a trip back to more place, this office is currently occupied however the office in the reflection is still under construction and will be part of a revisit some other time. What captured my eye most about both this image and the final image is the clean lines and the flat reflective surface with the exact opposite in the reflection.
The second of the 2 images is of the same office block from day 1 which i now know is something to do with a company or organisation called Willis, in the reflection is the Lloyds of London building, which in itself is a very odd looking building indeed, The Lloyds Building was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986, the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The twelve glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK.for more info see Wikipedia.
Well that about wraps up this weeks images be sure to come back tomorrow to vote for your favourite and maybe one more special treat.!
Enjoy
Wayne
London Architecture Day 5
Well its day 5 of my London Architecture trip already i will be posting 2 images today and 2 images tomorrow then the poll on Monday for the best photo of the week, i think i might have saved the best for last but who knows…. .
The first image here is of No.1 London bridge which is a post modern office block 50 .9 meters high and consisting of 13 floors on the main section.
Image no.2 for today is Of Moor House which is a modern multi purpose building at 83.5 meters high and consisting of 18 floors its 57 meter deep foundations are the deepest in London to date.
Enjoy
Wayne
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