On My Brompton in Essex: On Thursday twenty sixth August 2004 I went for a trip on my Brompton in Essex on the north financial institution of the Thames, in an space generally referred to as the Thames Gateway. If anybody doesn’t know, the Brompton is among the greatest folding bikes round, with 16 inch wheels, folding rapidly to a reasonably small package deal which will be carried onto trains and buses. I don’t trip it a lot now, as I discover it fairly heavy to hold, notably when loaded with my digicam gear.
Chafford Hundred, Grays, Essex
I purchased the Brompton on the finish of 2002, and spent quite a lot of time using it for train on physician’s orders throughout restoration from a minor coronary heart drawback firstly of 2003. It coincided with the acquisition of my first digital digicam able to skilled outcomes, the 6.1Mp Nikon D100 DSLR.
Royal Victoria Dock
For a yr or two I labored with each digital and movie, notably as a result of firstly I had just one Nikon lens, a 24-85mm zoom, giving an equal on the DX format digicam to 36-128mm on full-frame, however I used a spread of wider lenses on movie. By 2004 I had added the outstanding Sigma 12-24mm (18-36mm equiv) to my bag, and most of the footage I made that day had been taken with that lens. I believe it was the primary inexpensive ultra-wide zoom, and positively the outcomes on DX format had been very usable.
Channel Tunnel Rail hyperlink beneath building at Purfleet
In addition to the Nikon I additionally had a movie digicam, a Russian Horizon 202 swing lens panoramic digicam. You’ll be able to see a number of the footage I made with this amongst these on the Thames Gateway (Essex) part on the City Landscapes web site.
Dartford Bridge and Channel Tunnel rail hyperlink, Thurrock
I started taking footage that day at Victoria Dock in Canning City, having taken the Brompton on the practice to Waterloo after which the Jubilee Line there, earlier than biking to West Ham station to catch the C2C rail service to Rainham, all on a Travelcard. It’s one thing of a blow that TfL now intends to discontinue the Travelcard, which supplied comparatively low cost and easy journey for many of my pictures.
Here’s what I wrote in regards to the day again in August 2004 – with minor corrections, notably altering to regular capitalisation.
I prefer to make good use of my Travelcards, so Rainham, the final station out of Fenchurch St in zone 6 is an efficient vacation spot. I pointed the Brompton first to Purfleet, to check out the state of play on the high-speed rail hyperlink, and in addition a brand new growth within the outdated chalkpits, then on in the direction of the Dartford bridge.
The Bridge Act obliges the operators to move cycles and pedestrians throughout freed from cost, and I cycled up the trail in the direction of it to say this proper, earlier than altering my thoughts and deciding i didn’t need to go to the opposite facet. As an alternative I took the brand new street by means of the West Thurrock Marshes industrial space and on to St Clements church, now a nature sanctuary, in the midst of a detergent manufacturing unit.
It’s a quiet and nice place to eat sandwiches, although the scent of the perfuming agent is pervasive. There I deliberate a route largely alongside facet roads, cycle paths and footpaths to Upminster, taking in Chafford Hundred, South Ockenden and Belhus Park and woods. It made a pleasing trip, although I needed to make just a few detours, and the B isn’t too steady on slimy mud, so some paths made for fascinating using, with the added pleasures of bramble thorns and nettles.
My London Diary
All the footage on this publish had been taken on the Nikon D100. There are a fairly much more on My London Diary.
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