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Nothing better than starting out the brand new year in London. While enjoying a few days of relaxation early January in this great city across the Channel I had some time to capture a few panorama’s of the impressive skyline. But, with a clear blue sky like this things really can’t go wrong anyway. The First two were taken from the top of the St.Paul’s Cathedral dome which is a very nice steep walk up to the top. Plenty of stairs to exercise the leg muscles and some incredible views halfway inside the church as well (which, sadly, you’re not allowed to photograph). Definitely worth the steep entry fee of £10 as, beside the impressive cathedral, the view over the City is worth the climb.

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The last panorama was taken outside the city at the wide open fields of Greenwich Village Park. This place must be amazing during summer weekends but this nice Sunday afternoon was certainly no disappointment either. Greenwich is the oldest enclosed Royal Park and home to a small herd of fallow and red deer. Situated on top of a hill, visitors enjoy sweeping views across the River Thames to St Paul’s Cathedral and beyond. The park is part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site, host to the Prime Meridian Line and the old Royal Observatory, as well as having the National Maritime Museum as a neighbour.

For a change, these images were not captured with my Canon EOS 1DmkIII but with brand-new Canon G9, a camera which has plenty of features and some great controls but whose imagery is a bit disappointing considering this is Canon’s top model compact camera. Too much noise for my liking at the higher ISO range and horrible flash controls. Happily I didn’t have that problem here as these were captured at 80-100 ISO, no flash please!