Recently I had to go down to London for some family stuff, and I got the chance to take my first trip on the London Eye. First impressions: damn, that’s one overpriced wheel! I remember something like £10,000 per rotation? 

Anyway, you sure get a damned wide view from up there, and I definitely recommend visiting on a clear night in summer because the sky brings a lot into the skyline photos. My other advice is to bring a polarizer, even at night – the reflections from the glass can really mess up your photos, and I didn’t have one. 

This is one of the better shots, taken with the 10-22mm lens. Any/all comments much appreciated!

Way back when in October, I visited Keele University to attend a summer school on hydrodynamic stability theory. In essence, this covers topics such as perturbation theory applied to fluid dynamics and is hopefully something I’m going to study later on.Keele is also the largest campus-based university in the UK, and has its own arboretum. We had an afternoon off to look around, and I saw this opportunity for a shot. Clearly the farmer had just laid down a whole load of seeds and this attracted the attention of a whole load of birds for some free food. The conversion to black and white is to give a little more atmosphere to the shot.