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Paris All Night Shoot | May 28-29, 2011

Ghene Snowdon — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:42:30 +0000

Welcome to our fourth Paris All Night Shoot!

We’ve been to Eiffel Tower, Sacree Coeur for sunset and sunrise, through the Champs Elysees, Arc de Triomphe, La Defense and a bit around Notre Dame!

This year we will start where Bastille Saint Antoine once stood, where the French started the revolution – Bastille. Then we will pass the marina, Ile St Louis to arrive our sunset spot. The way towards our sunrise spot is full of twists and turns so I will leave that for you to discover in our itinerary. But in between, we will have a choice of two restaurants on the way.

This all night walk will accommodate those who wish to photograph people on the street and lit architectures.

Departure from London St Pancras on 28th May at 16:22 to arrive in Paris Gare du Nord at 19:47
Departure from Paris Gare du Nord on 29th May at 09:13 to arrive in London St Pancras at 10:34

Costs:

Participation : £15 - includes Metro Tickets, Food allowance for local guide and press printed itinerary.

from £50 round trip fare with Eurostar

Please budget for dinner and breakfast

Starting point: Gare du Nord

First Meetup point : Bastille

Sunrise: Pont Royal

Please note: After your booking you will receive a .pdf file with details including maps, addresses, itinerary, sunrise/sunset details and other information. On the day, you will receive the press printed itinerary and your Metro Tickets.

London All Night Shoot

Ghene Snowdon — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:18:09 +0000

Where: Festival Pier
6PM

My number: 07910657409

UPCOMING : I saw only 24 RSVPs and received 27 forms?

Itinerary:
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We will meetup at the Festival pier area, if there are seats available at the bars in front, we will go there. If I can find a place, I will be overlooking the Festival Pier so don’t forget to look up At 6PM we will meet for drinks, introductions and Q&A and so on. It is informal, don’t be afraid

I know we did this last year (and twice!) but it just couldn’t be help. It promised to be a clear sky and I won’t miss that lovely sunset. Below is an image that indicated where the sun sets to give us all an idea where to look.

I will not put lines or anything in the map, just places where we should be at certain times. Keep up with the group and specially you equipment.

We will start from the Jubilee Gardens Area so those who want to go up to the Eye may do so without pressure. . I believe from one of the capsules overlooking London is the best spot. However for those not going up the Eye, Hungerford Bridge (side closest to the Eye), Royal Festival Hall (where the fountain is) and Southbank are great places to shoot.

Sunset: 21h21

After sunset, around 10PM will heap off towards Embankment station and take a District Line train to Tower Hill (trip takes 11 minutes), where the walk officially starts.

So we will be walking and taking photographs from Tower Hill via City Hall up to Tate Modern. I put 1h30mins between Tate Modern and China town, we will need to walk faster for this I am afraid so we won’t miss Chinatown at 3AM for our food stop. I do not have a particular place in mind any respectable place who have a table for 26 people will be fine (also they need to serve quick). We need to be out at 4AM and get a cab for London Bridge. I know there is the night bus but we do have time constraint and we need to be in place for the 4.41AM sunrise. If we leave at 4AM, we should have enough time in case there is traffic and of course if some of you want to shoot from another location.

Sunrise:4.41AM

Above is for information use only. The yellow line indicates where the sunrise is expected.

Reminders:

Travel light. Carrying all your gear is way too much specially if you’ll end up using only a standard zoom and telephoto lenses.
Bring your tripod. Lowlight without tripod doesn’t really work.
Bring a small bottle of water.
Wear comfy shoes, blisters at the early hours of the morning when you are already tired is really bad idea.
Make sure you have £10 cash for the Black cab in the morning. Since we will be sharing one (between 5 of us), it will be affordable.
Your photos taken in the More London property cannot be sold for profit. Our permit is for non-commercial photography only.
No Tripod on the London Eye..

Acknowlegements

Thank you Steve for pointing out this nifty gadget website for sunrise and sunset.
More London, for permission to shoot in the area.
Tower Bridge Authority

Notices:

There is no pub stop as we will be in a cafe/bar/pub/restaurant before we even start so having one a bit later is a bit overdone.

We will us the Black cabs to take us to the Sunrise meeting point, so we will not be too tired and late (hopefully).

This meetup involves a lot of walking, please do not join if you are not fit. Or if you really want to join us, make use of public transport to take you to meeting points especially the one between Tate Modern and China Town.

I received 27 signed forms for the City Hall area. Only these participant will be able to use their tripods and take photographs in that area. All others will be turned away by the security guard.

Ugh! I did put lines on the map

I might put PDFs for you to download tonight. We’ll see how I fare after school runs and lots of paperworks. (At least it does not involve a drive to Cambridge and back like yesterday).

This is a FREE event. However, if you wish to give something, you can make a donation. Click this link and look for a Make a Donation button.

Resources

Google Maps

Photographer’s Ephemeris

Paris All Night Shoot 2009

Ghene Snowdon — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:03:04 +0000

Sometime lastyear I started organising the Paris All Night Shoot. This is the second year and even with all its flaws I have enjoyed my self and I do hope the others did so too.

We took advantage of the Eurostar clubbing tickets which is affordable and which I hope will not increase next year If I am to organise a Paris All Night Shoot 3. With this assumption, I have decided to make next year’s event contained in a smaller area so we have lots of more shooting and less walking.

Back to this weekend’s walk, it was attended by 46 people from London Flickr Meetup Group and DSLR User forum group, 4 from Olympus UK Safari Group and 2 from Flickr@Paris Group who helped herd us to different areas.

I am still too sore from such a demanding walk to finish my editing. Below are some for my favourites.

Sunset & La Defense

Sunset in Paris

Paris Pink Horizon

To view the group’s efforts, please visit Flickr.com

Thanks to all who participated and I do hope you manage to capture something in Paris that you’re proud of. I hope to see you next year (if).

If you’re an Olympus user and would like to hang out with other Olympus users, please join us at the Olympus Safari Group.

Paris All Night Shoot 2009

Ghene Snowdon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:57:18 +0000

Welcome to the second edition of the Paris All Night Shoot. Like before this event is for my fellow photographers to come out and take photos at night in Paris, France. This year’s meet will be on the 30th of May and we will have a different itinerary from last year. This time, we will capture sunset at La Defense and start the walk from Eiffel tower. From there we should be able to capture the popular parts of Paris brightly lit.

Participants from London are booking Eurostar train which departs from St Pancras at 16h25 and arrive in Paris at 19h47. If you want to join, please book the same train and stick with the group.

I will post full itinerary and details here one month before the date, please keep an eye on this page. Please note, only, registered users will be able to see and download the details.

To thank our French friends who will guide us, I would like to ask you to send in your £5 donation. This will be used to pay for their dinner.

To RSVP, please go to the event’s UPCOMING page.

Photographs from 2008 Paris All Night Shoot

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£5 – Metro Ticket +£1.63 donation

£8 – Metro Ticket + £5 donation

£10.50 Eiffel Tower ticket (group price): booking closed

Hyde Park Walk

Ghene Snowdon — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:55:03 +0000

Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate today. It rained hard specially by the time we are ready to go shoot some fireworks. So we stayed a bit longer and did not continue the walk. The rain stopped at 8PM just in time for the fireworks and well it stayed clear soon after.

All rights reserved © 2008 Ghene Snowdon – www.gsnowdon.com
Please respect my copyright and do not use the photos without my permission

Islington & Chapel Market Meet

Ghene Snowdon — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:24:36 +0000

The Islington and Chapel market photowalk last weekend , the 12th of October was a success. It was attended by some 20 photographers. The place was interesting, the weather excellent and the company is great! If you want to re-create the walk, you can find the pdf file on the member’s page (requires registration). It has a map and some information of the places we went to.

Thank you all for attending and if you are available on the 26th, we have Mayfair-St James photowalk.
See you there!

To view more photos from this photowalk, please click here.

Notting Hill & Holland park Photowalk

Ghene Snowdon — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:55:00 +0000

The Notting Hill – Holland Park Photowalk (on the 27th of September) was attended by some 18 photographer mostly from London. We walked from our starting point which was All Bar One on Notting Hill Gate towards Ladbroke Estate which is a nice and quiet area. We then headed off to Holland Park but along the way, we stopped at Windsor Castle pub for some refreshments which were photographed before being consumed.

The day went well and the weather is excellent.

Thank you all for joining the walk and the fun. I hope to see you again soon!

View photographs from participants here

Notting Hill and Holland Park Walk

Ghene Snowdon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:10:32 +0000

When: September 27, 2008 @ 11AM

Where we meet:
ALL BAR ONE
126, Notting Hill Gate
London, W11 3QG United Kingdom

Pub stop: Windsor Castle on 114 Campden Hill Road

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The walk will include over Ladbroke estate, Holland Park (through Kyoto garden), Ice House Gallery and Kensington High Street (for shopping).

Belgium All Night Shoot

Ghene Snowdon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:40:15 +0000

I organised a photography meetup to Brussels (August 16-17). This is an All Night photography walk in the city with photographers from London. Unfortunately it is during my trip to Dover. So I took the train from Dover to London and meet up with the other photographers at the station. In all, there were 21 of us and I believe we all had fun except when we were waiting for our food at the Tapas Bar for more than an hour and when we cannot find Adrian. The second food stop made up for the first one and Adrian eventually found his way to us.

Flower Carpet on the Grand Place… the place was packed full!

Waiting for our food….

The Tapas Bar in the city took more than an hour to serve us our food. It is dark, loud and we are hungry. To occupy ourselves, of course we took photos with and without flash. You can’t really tell 20 people with huge cameras who are hungry and must feed to sustain an all night walk. It was a lot more civilised when the food arrived. If you are in a hurry, I cannot recommend this restaurant.

Next we went to take photos of the Atomium. It is 28 minutes tram from the centre of town but it was worth it. It is here we accidentally left Adrian.

This is a very flashy building standing beside the Sheraton. Photo was taken handheld.

Mystical: very nicely decorated restaurant and we were the only ones this night! I highly recommend it, just do not order pasta coz they are a bit too salty.

We stopped by the little peeing boy and even posed for a group photo!

Thanks to all who participated and also for the yummy chocolates

View photographs from the other photographers.

London June All Night Shoot

Ghene Snowdon — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:54:15 +0000

The London all night shoot was held on the night of the 21st of June. It was a success with about 16 people who stayed up until the very early hours of the morning (the 22nd of June). The only time we were confronted by security personnel was when we arrived at Trafalgar Square and later on the southbank close to ITV and OXO tower. Same old tune, we cannot take photographs from their property specially commercial one even if we are not taking photographs of the building.

View photographs from other members