Caught you making love with him.

[reddragdiva]

Some terrible photos of the eclipse:

During totality, the moon was a dim red spot behind cloud; I got two shots it doesn't show in at all. The above were slightly after, when the moon was higher.

I've also been tarting up Wikipedia: Knightsbridge tube station and Telstra Dome. I also have a night shot of the latter. Many more to follow.

Comments

You're right

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Those are some right horrible pics.

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia articles are neat-o. I can see why it would be an interesting pastime. :)
I'm curious about the Knightsbridge Station picture (beautiful facade, BTW!). The lettering on the "Underground" sign appears to have been attacked by the gremlins...in three instances. The signwriting around it is legible, though. What's the story? :)

[reddragdiva]

I'm not at all sure what you mean ...

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Okay, I think I've worked-out what's happened.

This pic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Knightsbridge-tube-station-sloane-street-entrance.jpg) is what I'm talking about.
At first I thought the sign was saying "UXXXXXXXXXD", where each 'X' is a slightly roughly-square squiggly glyph. Now that I put my nose up to the monitor and squint, I can tell that it's "UndergrounD", where all of the letters except those on the ends have a short '-' bar above and below them.
It is a cruddy design (http://www.bvg.de/ueber/images/design1203.jpg) (quite the opposite of the graphic design for the Underground Map (http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk/tfl/images/zone_big.jpg), which has been emulated (http://www.victrip.com.au/images/maps/metro_train_map_fullscale.gif) around the world since the mid '20s) if viewed from a distance or you're more familiar with the older logo (http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/photo/pcd1978/london-underground-sign-21.3.jpg).

[reddragdiva]

The cruddy design is the older logo; the one you've linked to as the "older" one is in fact the current one.

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Holy cow! I mistakenly assumed that the stripey one was was because I'd not seen it before. Ta for clearing-up things.
Eh, it goes to show why things needed a change... ;)

[poggs.livejournal.com]

Doesn't the picture on the left look like a penis, or is it the fact that I could do with another two hours sleep?

[reddragdiva]

I've read about this "sleep" thing you humans do. I'm not entirely convinced by it.

[poggs.livejournal.com]

Neither am I - if it didn't make me snap at anything and everything when I don't get 'sleep', I'd avoid it entirely... but I'd put on weight as I'd have a "midnight lunch" and probably snack during the early hours.