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Hot off the press, this is one of my favourite images from my photographic trip to Barcelona last weekend. It's taken looking up one of the lightwells to Herzog & de Meuron's extraordinary Forum building. Completed in 2004, sadly the building seemed rather disused and neglected.

It's going to take me a while to edit and post process the 1200 photos so it might be a while before I post some more from the trip but I thought I'd post this as a bit of a teaser.

Click here to see more of my favourite architectural shots : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157603150388418

From Wikipedia : "The Forum Building, designed by the Swiss architects Jaques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Herzog & de Meuron), is an architectural landmark in Barcelona. The building is triangular in shape, measuring 180 meters on each side and 25 meters in height, located within the triangle formed by Diagonal Avenue, Rambla de Prim and the Ronda Litoral."

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I've photographed the Planetarium of at-Bristol before, but I think this is my favourite shot so far. It was a great sky and I think maybe the ball had recently been given a bit of a polish.

From Wikipedia : "At-Bristol is a public science and technology "exploration" and education centre in Bristol, England. At its opening the centre consisted of Explore, which contains features on mechanics, sound and light, computer science, space and the human brain; Wildwalk, a science centre comprising two artificial rainforests, aquariums and other ecology-related exhibits; and an IMAX theatre.

Wildwalk and the IMAX Theatre closed at the end of March 2007 due to a lack of funding and government support. Explore continues to operate, and the Wildwalk building is to be converted into an aquarium by Blue Reef Aquarium, with the IMAX cinema being used to show nature and wildlife films."

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We ended up staying in Newport rather than Cardiff (it's a long story) but the riverfront in Newport provided a couple of hours of interesting photographic opportunities, like this enormous 40ft high red steel sculpture called the Steel Wave by Peter Fink.

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Whilst pondering where to go next in the virtual world I thought I'd upload this shot taken at the Olympic Stadium in Athens two years ago which I've recently licensed for use on a book cover ('Olympic Cities', out later this year). A similar shot I uploaded at the time has gone on to become my third most viewed photo.

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Deliberately composed to add to the feeling of disorientation. Hopefully it's easy to imagine this was taken from the rollercoaster itself. My wife uploaded a photo of the Rage Rollercoaster at Southend's Adventure Island Amusement Park about six months ago and it's gone on to become one of her most viewed photos (see here : www.flickr.com/photos/marie-g/1223410820/ ). Not that I'm competitive but I'm going to need your help catching up.

From Wikipedia : "Rage is a Gerstlauer Eurofighter roller coaster situated at Adventure Island in Southend On Sea, United Kingdom. It opened on 10 February 2007. It is one of the biggest investments the park has ever made. It features three inversions: a Vertical loop, Immelmann and a Zero-G roll."

Update : Apologies for bumping this to the front of my photostream because I know it'll annoy some of you but it's not every day that a magazine runs an interview about your photography, click here for details of my Interview in the June 2011 Issue of Advanced Photographer Magazine : www.flickr.com/darrellg/5737939741/ (Promise not to mention it again ;-)

Oh, and for those interested Maries shot is still a couple of thousand views ahead of me so thats another reason for bumping ;-)

Update, 17/09/13 : Finally overtaken her........

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