Return Visit to London Lions Basket Ball

As we enjoyed our last visit to the Copper Box to watch the basketball, we went again this weekend and watched the Lions defeat Cheshire Phoenix 88 77 with lots of action and atmosphere. I haven't had time to process many but here some shots to get a flavour of the event.

 

London Lions versus Sheffield Sharks at the Copperbox Arena, Olympic Park, London

My first visit to the Copperbox and thoroughly enjoyed the experience  of being entertained for 2 hours with fast moving basketball. Not easy to shoot but here a few shots from the afternoon.

 

 

River Lee Walk

A few images from a walk along the River Lee. There is a lot of building of Desirable Apartments going on all along the River. I wonder how long the graffitti'ed buildings will remain

Olympic Park in Winter Light and Velodrome

Took the coach up to Stratford intending to walk through Olympic Park and along the River Lea and Limehouse Cut to visit the Winter Lights display at Canary Wharf. The light was so attractive in the Park that we spent some time on the buildings and then found a fair amount of activity in the Velodrome so in the end did the River Lea Section (to follow) and then caught the DLR to be in time for dusk at the Lights (to follow). Interested to see the Olympic Stadium now decked in West Ham colours and Regalia. 

 

Olympic City, Stratford 3.End of the Day

Final images of the set from our visit to Stratford on Wednesday. Quite a contrast between the deserted paths of the Olympic Park and the busy Stratford Bus Station area. Fortunately we had gone by coach as all the trains were stopped for several hours because of an incident (we wondered what all the flashing lights and sirens were!)

Olympic Park Stratford. 2 Velodrome, Canal and Trees

We were fortunate to have at least a few cyclists trying out the track at the Velodrome. I decided to use my fish-eye  (first four images). Panning with this proved interesting (image two) as it is very difficult to keep the horizon straight. Also a few more images of the canal, boats and graffiti and a couple of arty silver birch images - the second a double exposure.