Allyen Speaks » video http://allyenwilson.com/blog Family, Travel, Photography, Cooking, Politics Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:13:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 London Calling http://allyenwilson.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/10/london-calling/ http://allyenwilson.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/10/london-calling/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:24:03 +0000 admin http://allyenwilson.com/blog/?p=38 As a follow up to my previous post regarding video footage from Dubai, here is all 2 minutes 30 seconds of video from London. It will just give you a sense for the area of the city we were staying. You will also see the “Traditional English Breakfast” that we had several mornings. The breakfast was good and not very different from what I do at home save for the baked beans.

At the end you will see a reference to “mind the gap”. When riding the Tube, this is a seemingly never ending reminder played over the loudspeakers at every stop. I assume there have been some costly lawsuits over people getting feet, clothing, bags etc. caught in the gap between the train and the platform. I found the word choice interesting compared to the American “watch your step”. In another example the Brits used the sign “way out” for uses where we would use “exit”.

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This trip was no different, I took the new video camera and almost every piece of still camera gear I own. However, when I finally got to Dubai, I did not take a fraction of the pictures I had planned to. I wanted to actually experience this trip as a participant, not just a spectator, without the burden of always looking for the next great shot.

I only took about 400 pictures during the entire 10 day trip to Dubai and London. This is laughably few for someone who considers themselves a photographer. Anyway, here is all 2 minutes and 38 seconds of video I shot in Dubai. Near the end you will see the worlds tallest building as I shoot it from a taxi.

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