{"id":861,"date":"2004-03-11T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2010-04-11T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:36:20","slug":"861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/861\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip up the BT Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spun out!<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s no question about it- it was worth enduring the swivel-action presentation for the ride to the top of the BT Tower!<\/p>\n

I’ve wanted to go up there for years – ever since I was a kid, in fact – and to experience the floor rotating was an unexpected treat (apparently, they don’t get the thing revved up that often).<\/p>\n

Even better, there was a top freebie in the giveaway pack at the end of the presentation – a 128 meg USB memory stick! Respect!<\/p>\n

Next stop was a quick coffee in the Photographers Gallery before walking to Waterloo and Southwark to take some commissioned panoramas in the f-f-freezing cold (it even speckled with snow for a few minutes, but – sadly – there were no big snowdrifts coming my way)<\/p>\n

I used my ‘big’ camera (the Sony F717) to take six separate panoramas (each one one is comprised of about 15 shots, photographed in a big circle) but found the man sized zoom lens and ‘tech’ silver finish attracted far more attention than the pocket sized FX77 camera I normally use.<\/p>\n

That last thing you want to do is to start catching people’s eyes when you’re swivelling around taking panoramas, so my next camera will definitely be smaller. And black!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spun out! There’s no question about it- it was worth enduring the swivel-action presentation for the ride to the top of the BT Tower! I’ve wanted to go up there … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-861","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}