"I am not to be denied."
I spent all the time leading up to this not thinking about it at all, an attempt at a meditative blankness of mind, with the consequence that when I got there the sight of it in all it's 443ft glory, was immensely terrifying. I had to immediately block it out again in order to stave off from crying...
Man this photo could have been good if I had taken it just a shade to the right, fail.
We were hideously early at this point so my mother and I tried to get nourishment from a shop accross the road called "Enough to feed an elephant", which is surely asking to be challenged under the Trades and descriptions act.
The photos I got were taken with my iPhone so they aren't the best of quality, still my brother wanted pictures and that's technically what he got.
Safely enconsced in our own capsule with about 12 other people.
There was a little boy and his dad in with us and the little boy started to ecstatically shriek at his dad that there was air coming in the bottom of the capsule, which I assume/hope was the air conditioning. The father was on his mobile phone, only deciding to cut the call off after about 5 minutes...arsehole... and so he ignored his son who was transparently terrified that there was something wrong with the capsule we were in. You know what I'm starting to think that the majority of decent parenting is reassurance, poor little boy. Then the father got off the phone and was encouraging his son to climb up the bars so he could take pictures of him, which of course wasn't technically dangerous, although I would argue not to be advised, but we were so high and it set my heart palpating in a disagreeable way nonetheless.
It was infinitely more terrifying to sit facing the inner side of the wheel watching the mechanics slowly moving, you also got a more visceral sense of height as you saw the ant sized people below on the SouthBank and the number of cars between you and the bottom increase.
A airflight from a London Eye flight.
London from the air is pretty boring really, just a mass of bridges and tall buildings, we had our Flight just as it was getting dark and the lights about were just about coming on, slowly through out it.
All the pictures have a horrible amount of reflection on them which is lame. Also pixellation from poor camera and smudginess from poor light.
This is my favourite from all the images I got, so just imagine how pisspoor all the others I didn't put up were.
I have an app on my iPhone which has a zoom button, this was taken with that, which explains why the pixxellation/smudge is particularly appalling, still I quite like it.
Man this photo could have been good if I had taken it just a shade to the right, fail.
We were hideously early at this point so my mother and I tried to get nourishment from a shop accross the road called "Enough to feed an elephant", which is surely asking to be challenged under the Trades and descriptions act.
The photos I got were taken with my iPhone so they aren't the best of quality, still my brother wanted pictures and that's technically what he got.
Safely enconsced in our own capsule with about 12 other people.
There was a little boy and his dad in with us and the little boy started to ecstatically shriek at his dad that there was air coming in the bottom of the capsule, which I assume/hope was the air conditioning. The father was on his mobile phone, only deciding to cut the call off after about 5 minutes...arsehole... and so he ignored his son who was transparently terrified that there was something wrong with the capsule we were in. You know what I'm starting to think that the majority of decent parenting is reassurance, poor little boy. Then the father got off the phone and was encouraging his son to climb up the bars so he could take pictures of him, which of course wasn't technically dangerous, although I would argue not to be advised, but we were so high and it set my heart palpating in a disagreeable way nonetheless.
It was infinitely more terrifying to sit facing the inner side of the wheel watching the mechanics slowly moving, you also got a more visceral sense of height as you saw the ant sized people below on the SouthBank and the number of cars between you and the bottom increase.
A airflight from a London Eye flight.
London from the air is pretty boring really, just a mass of bridges and tall buildings, we had our Flight just as it was getting dark and the lights about were just about coming on, slowly through out it.
All the pictures have a horrible amount of reflection on them which is lame. Also pixellation from poor camera and smudginess from poor light.
This is my favourite from all the images I got, so just imagine how pisspoor all the others I didn't put up were.
I have an app on my iPhone which has a zoom button, this was taken with that, which explains why the pixxellation/smudge is particularly appalling, still I quite like it.