On to London

Skipped Hampton Court as don’t have that many photos!  Buckingham Palace is open a couple of months a year so we had to be there for 9.30ish on Sunday morning as our entrance time was 10.30.  Even though we had tickets had to queue up to get the tickets and queue up again to go through security (machines just like at the airport.  And ……. NO PHOTOGRAPHY!!  What a shame!  But wow, if you are in London when Buckingham Palace is open you must go see it.  Tour lasted about hour and a half.  Hipstamatic Dali again for these photos!

From Buck Palace we had to take the tube to go all the way to Tower Hill to go visit the Tower of London.  Hyde Park Corner tube station was amazing with the amount of paintings on all the walls!  I didn’t have much time to take photos but definitely going back to take some more!  Here are the ones I took, again with Hipstamatic Dali.

The Tower of London – queued up to see the Crown Jewells, then walked around a bit and took the boat from there to Westmister Pier :

Tower Bridge :

Been a Tourist

My friend Janice arrived last Friday so we had an incredibly hectic weekend being tourists!  On Saturday we went to Windsor Castle then hurried back by train to Richmond, got in the car and drove to Hampton Court Palace.  Sunday we tackled Buckingham Palace (which was amazing), the Tower of London and caught the boat back to Westminster Pier.  Spent some time walking around the Houses of Parliament and caught tube back to Richmond.  We were knackered!  But weather was HOT for the UK, and DRY!  Just perfect! 
I was showing Janice how iphoneography apps work so played around with this photo which I originally took with ProHDR.  Processed it with Snapseed and then with VintageScene.

As you all know I love my Hipstamatic App – especially the Dali and Watts lenses paired up with the DreamCanvas film!  Here are a few of my favourite ones :

Syon House at Syon Park

Just 5 minutes cycle ride from me is beautiful Syon House in the Syon Park estate – here is info about it http://www.syonpark.co.uk/history.asp
A few weeks ago on a rare very hot day in England (dont get many of those!) I decided to go visit Syon House (basically to cool down lol).  It was late in the afternoon and not many people visiting.  Here is a photo of the beautiul courtyard.  Photo taken with ClassicPan, then used AutoPainterII and Iris.

By the River

Always lots of lovely photo opportunities when I walk or cycle to Richmond.  These houseboats were shot with Hipstamatic.  I did do a bit more processing with them but can’t remember what apps I used!

This one I took with one of the Camera apps and I then did a lot of blending with Iris :

Walking from Richmond to Ham you pass a rowing club.  These rowing boats were stacked up so I took photo with Hipstamatic (Watts Lens, Dreamcanvas Film).  Processed photo with AutoPainterII then some more effects and blending with Iris.

Playing around with new apps

Some apps are fairly simple, others take some time  to learn.  I have loads of apps that I’ve not even started to learn yet.  So today have been playing around with Photo Artista Haiku.
I took this photo inside Syon House’s Conservatory – the old vase is so beautiful.  Here is my original photo and the same photo processed with Photo Artista Haiku :

Took them both into Iris and played around with several effects and blending modes.  I also sharpened it with PerfectPhoto, added a frame with Camera+ and then added my signature with Impression :

I’m happy with the results

The London Eye iPhone Style!

Continuing on with my photos from my trip to London.  I used ClassicPan to take these photos – it is such a wonderful camera app!  I’m stuck just using one of the lens effects – Vivid – so I must go try out all the other different ones!  I also then processed them with Snapseed, AutoPainterII, Iris, PerfectPhoto.

Just started using a great app called Diptic so made a couple using two of the photos :

Some More London Photos

Took Monday 11th July as holiday and spent afternoon walking around the South Bank in London as I was going to the Mac Store at 7pm to attend a London iPhoneography exhibition.  Weather was ok (not raining like it has been for over a week now).  So I took my time to walk around by the London Eye, Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament to take photos with my iphone.
Houses of Parliament grunged up version

Took photo with ProHDR, made some blends in Iris. Used AutoPainterII and then blended again with Iris. Sharpened a bit with PerfectPhoto.
Walking past the Houses of Parliament took photo of the side of the building

I took photo with ClassicCam, then did some processing with Snapseed, AutoPainterII and Iris.
This one I took from the other side of the Houses of Parliament.  Had to put my iphone through some railings and stand on tiptoes to take the photo!

Took photo with ProHDR, added effect with Snapseed, another one with AutoPainterII, blended several times with Iris and sharpened with PerfectPhoto.