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last weekend , me and my colleagues drove down 2 hours south west of
London to the coastal town of West Lulworth. This coastal seaside town
is part of what is called Jurassic Coast where you can find 150 million
rocks and fossils of trilobytes and jurassic era trees.

here are some pics to share , do give this place a visit if you’re around London , it is definitely worth the trip..

when we arrived there , we opted to park nearby Durdle Door…from
there it is about a 10mins walk down the white gravel path , quite
slippery and very steep..since me being a fatty kid with large momentum
, i had to do a zig zag so that I won’t walk down too fast and ended up
tumbling down the path

on the way down that steep slope , we saw another small bay/cove on the
east end of Durdle Door which in itself is a very nice place to chill
.. the beach is primarily made up of pebbles instead of fine grained
sands like in Malaysia..

the same cove viewed from the west

connected to this cove is the famous Durdle Door - made of rocks of 150
millions years old called Portland rocks. On top of the door you can
actually see fossils of trees but it’s abit hard to see from the
picture though

Durdle Door

another view from the beach

F100 found on the pebble beach! hehe.. my treasure..

My colleague Aaron throwing some pebbles into the sea..

yours truly enjoying the beach…pardon the fatty model ha ha..this pic was taken by my colleague Elsie with here 350D

once we were done with Durdle Door , we drove 5 mins eastward to check
out Lulworth Cove and Stair Hole. Pictured above is the Stair Hole
where the beach is made of large rocks. This picture was actually taken
on top of this magnificent stone structures called the Stair:

i was on top of that thingy , so you can imagine how big is the
structure. Geologically speaking , this place has significant interest
due to the formation of the rock folds. These lines used to be straight
horizontal lines but due to earth’s tectonic plate movement , these 150
million years old flatbeds have been folded so many times in such a
weird angles as you can see from the picture. Hence the ‘Stair’ name…

this is the ‘Stair Hole’

this is Joyce , a friend of mine taking a picture of us with Elsie’s 350D camera..

Coastal town of West Lulworth , very cozy small English country side town…

Lulworth Cove , this is at the east end of the Stair Hole , will post more pics of this place later..

That’s all for now!

Neopan 400 (B&W Film)
Nikon F100
50mm 1.8 AFD lens

love the tone on this…

coming back home soon..c u guys in Malaysia..

My friend Mariana who’s currently studying in University of Bath came
down to London for an interview recently. Since I’ve never been to Bath
, gladly I’ve offered to drive her back there which is about 2 hours
away from where I was staying.

Bath is famous for its natural hot springs (there seems to be not that
much hot springs in UK , unlike in Malaysia) which is used by the
Romans ages ago.

Bath also has some of the finest examples for Gregorian architecture,
that evolved from the Palladian revival style which popular during the
18th Century. All buildings (new/old) required to be built with a
bathstone facade, making it quite an attraction , a walk in Bath feels
like something of a scene in any of Jane Austen’s movie (she used to
stay there bout 6-7 years and the movie Vanity Fair was shot there)

anyway bla bla enough talk here come the pics

Bath Abbey , shot with F100 Sensia slide

Bath upon the Avon river… (D70s)

Roman Bath (D70s)

Pano view of Royal Crescent - bigger pic can be found at this link
(taken with D70s and stitched in Autostitch)

more pics can be found at my flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarjamaludin

that’s all folks!

These pictures were taken with Nikon F100 (just got it off ebay for RM 1.2k hehe)  with Neopan 400iso B&W negative

took this at Primrose Hill where you can see the skyline of London.
To get there, take the tube to Chalk Farm Station on the Northern Line

this Boxer dog was playing around with his owner where the owner would kick a ball and the dog would fetch it for him..poor soccer ball , all mauled up..

this is what I saw everyday on the way to work .. nice shadows i’d say

a small fishing boat off the Portsmouth port

the flying seagulls in Portsmouth

an old warship now de-commissioned in Portsmouth

hope you guys enjoyed the pics

sensia roll .. just got this developed at Boots where they would send
it out to some lab and you gotta wait for 12 days for it to come back

Buskers in downtown Bath

Greeter at Jane Austen Center in Bath..apparently she’s from Bath..maybe grew up there..

Chinese busker at Covent Garden , London playing tradisional Chinese Equipment..anyone knew the name of the instrument?

i’m waiting for you…at Covent Garden

hi boleh berkenalan? lol

on the pavement of Oxford St

South Bank upon Thames River (near London Eye)
buskers performers fav place - pictured are two Flamenco dancers from Spain

dancer and singer
again in Southbank … what a weird combination one guy is Rasta one guys is 50s like..

last one

oxford st..
my dad munching on some lamb doner kebab..
hehe
that’s all folks my random street shots

as promised..these are the ones which I haven’t screw up that much
during processing / washing the HP5+ recently..please do give comments
on the exposure of the development , composition is for sure kinda crap
one haha but i’m more interested in knowing whether the development
turns out ok or not according to you guys..

HP5+ 400 in Ilfosol @ 19 degrees for 7 minutes

who’s watching who? (there’s abit of scratch here on top and some underdevelop sticking part on the bottom right)

this photo was taken inside M&S Foodstore near Covent Garden

please give way

are you spartacus?

escalator going down the tube station

going down down…

mini bites at Mark & Spencer food..i like the extemely chocalateyy

last one..

busker at covent garden courtyard

do give comments if you like the photos..

cheers