As a photographer you never know quite what your assignment can spring on you - and each day is different. Here is a quick story of my day yesterday, photographing the Olympic Park for a Finnish newspaper in London. 

Knowledge is worth its weight in gold, as I had done similar assignment before I knew that getting around the Olympic Park (on the outside) will be a time consuming. So I packed my bicycle to the back of the car as I head for the 2 1/2 drive down south - find a place to park the car near Stratford, watch the parking attendants looking strangely as I assemble my bike on the parking lot. 

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From the previous visit I had a good idea where the best vantage points were going to be, but moving on a bike gave me a chance to cover a whole lot more distance in three hours than what I would have done on foot. A point which was proven by a German photographer whom I passed during my round - only to see him walking past me miles later as I was sitting down and having a pint of coke :-) 

With about six weeks to go until the games, there was still plenty to finish inside the Park - which at parts still looked like a building site. And the regeneration of the area.. well, only time will tell whether it spreads beyond the Olympic Park.. sure didn't seem like it to me with the state of the houses only meters away from the fences of the Park.

Sunny day in London, cycling along the rivers/canals - it is not a bad way to earn your living. But the security is getting tighter around the Park, and while I was photographing the Park through the fence.. even I got my picture taken ...  

Stats of the day : 300 miles driven, 30 miles cycled, few hundred pictures taken...

Yesterday outside the fences of the park - in six weeks, I should be inside them working away.. exciting times ahead.