Standing on the Strand on Monday with about a million other people waiting for the Team GB Victory Parade (or the 'Our Greatest Team Parade' to give it it's Official title) I was rather jealous of the viewpoint these first floor windows would have given. Trouble is as the athletes spent most of the time looking at the crowd I wouldn't have got so many shots with eye contact (well, looking in my general direction anyway......)
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Probably one of my favourite shots of the London 2012 Orbit Tower, the viewpoint shows the Anish Kapoor / Cecil Balmond designed structure at it's most elegant and the last rays of the early evening sunshine give the shot a lovely warm glow.
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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it would seem, at least with the London 2012 Orbit Tower, it depends to a greater extent on where the beholders eye is. From some angles it's an elegant and (almost) beautiful structure, from others it's a tangled mess of red painted steel.
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And now for something a bit different. This shot of a masked spectator was taken at the Paralympics last week. Obviously a keen Team GB fan but I do wonder how much he can actually see through the mask.
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For those that didn't visit the Viewtube before it closed about a month ago, this is the cafe / educational centre at the official viewing area for the London 2012 Olympic Park. Not that you can or should compare but I don't imagine the Chinese having such a low key temporary building made out of shipping containers for Beijing 2008.
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