{"id":815,"date":"2013-10-26T22:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T02:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2013-10-27T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T12:28:30","slug":"big-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Big Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I returned yesterday from an October business trip to London.\u00a0 True to form, I could not resist taking a small(ish) camera kit.\u00a0 Given it was a short trip &#8211; depart Monday, return Friday &#8211; I was tempted to leave the gear behind.\u00a0 The extra bag and weight are terribly inconvenient at times, but I knew I would regret not having it with me.\u00a0 I was in London almost exactly two years ago, and I had a lot of fun shooting the London Eye at night.\u00a0 There are so many things to explore and photograph in London, but I rarely have time to touch the hem of the garment.<\/p>\n<p>This trip was no different, except my main obstacle with available shooting time was sickness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not clear what caused me to get sick, but I think I may have had a latte with bad milk upon arrival.\u00a0 I remembering it tasting &#8220;funny&#8221;, but I assumed this was because it was whole milk which I am not accustomed to.\u00a0 Whatever it was, it put me in bed for 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>I did, however, find time to go for a short walk Tuesday to get fresh air and take a few &#8220;snaps&#8221; before the illness hit me.\u00a0 I started feeling normal mid-day Thursday, and after a full afternoon of work and a great dinner with a small group of customers and colleagues, I could not fall asleep.\u00a0 Since my camera had mostly been dormant, I took it for a about an hour and a half venture.\u00a0 The evening stroll did not disappoint.\u00a0 It was a crisp, cool evening.\u00a0 Big Ben had alluded me on my previous trip, so it became my primary target for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>This is my favorite Big Ben image from the evening walk.\u00a0 Lens flare from all the street lights was not only very difficult to control, but was impossible to completely eliminate.\u00a0 It actually adds a bit of character in this photo, in my honest opinon.\u00a0 I decided to process it in both color and B&amp;W.\u00a0 Let me know which you like best.\u00a0 I see merits in both.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not clear why, but I am drawn to B&amp;W photography more and more these days.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always loved it, but for some reason it energizes and intrigues me even more than ever.\u00a0 One of the many benefits of digital imaging is that I have the luxury of processing both.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for looking, and enjoy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_816\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-816\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-816\" title=\"BigBen_8804bw\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BigBen_8804bw-466x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BigBen_8804bw-466x700.jpg 466w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BigBen_8804bw-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BigBen_8804bw.jpg 1167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Ben &#8211; London, England<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_817\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-817\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-817\" title=\"BigBen_8804\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BigBen_8804-466x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BigBen_8804-466x700.jpg 466w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BigBen_8804-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BigBen_8804.jpg 1167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Ben &#8211; London, England<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5D MkII, 50mm f\/1.4, 8 secs @ f\/11, ISO 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned yesterday from an October business trip to London.\u00a0 True to form, I could not resist taking a small(ish) camera kit.\u00a0 Given it was a short trip &#8211; depart Monday, return Friday &#8211; I was tempted to leave the gear behind.\u00a0 The extra bag and weight are terribly inconvenient at times, but I knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,29,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}