Red faced and barking dogs

Former Royal Naval Academy, Greenwich ( Click for larger)

Well I'm back from my day out , slightly red faced, as it was a scorcher today in London Town. As you can see from the above picture, I spent the day wandering around Greenwich Park, The Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum and The Royal Naval Academy, which is why my dogs are barking and my ankles may go on strike.

I took the camera (obviously), it was not a great day for photo's , bright sun , no clouds, clear blue sky ( photographers hate clear blue skies ). So no nice lines & shadows, I could have done with my ND Grad filters, but I decided I was only going to take the bare minimum of kit ( for those interested, Canon 20D , Canon EFS17-85mm and Canon Circular Polariser)

The idea really was just to get out of the house and do something, the bastard thing with depression is that things that you used to enjoy just hold no interest for you anymore and what seems to others is just sitting around the house moping or just going through the motions at work, is actually crushing that persons soul bit by bit.

So I went and forced myself to take photo's even though I was internally pretty 'meh' about it. In the end, I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out, a couple I think are OK , some are too touristy, some were just bad.

All in all, not a bad day, the black dog's still there, but not howling as loud, I just need to keep forward momentum going.

I'll post up my thoughts on the park & museums later and maybe even put some photo's on flikr.

Now I've got to gird myself for taking my Nan shopping and to the doctors tommorow and that woould give even Happy Mc'Happy the Happiest Man in the World the blues.

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