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During Thursday's quick visit to the Place de la Concorde I took some high speed images of one of the fountains.  Using the wide aperture on the 56mm f1.2 and the electronic shutter on the X-T1 at 1/12000s and above, I froze the moving water. The Fontaines de la Concorde are two monumental fountains located in the Place de la Concorde in the centre of Paris. They were designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, and completed in 1840 during the reign of King Louis-Philippe.  The south fountain (the one pictured) commemorates the maritime commerce and industry of France, and the north fountain commemorates navigation and commerce on the rivers of France. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. -----------------------------------------...

A quick walk to Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly netted some more images for the MacLean Photographic London gallery. First stop was Trafalgar Square where I stopped to get some shots of the tourists enjoying one of London's most famous landmarks.  However it was the fountains and the statues that drew my photographic eye and with the Fuji X100 resting on the wall of the pool I took this long exposure shot. Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 0.7s  @ f16 - ISO200 Next stop was Piccadilly Circus and the colourful lights of the bill boards and the hoards of tourists surround the statue of Eros.  Again looking for something a bit different my eye was drawn to the London Underground signs that were brightly lit as the evening started to draw in.  I was going to do this shot totally in black and white but, like the image I took near St Paul's Cathedral last week, the red, white and blue colours deserved to be highlighted, so I left them in and just turned the rest of t...