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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

 Dinosaurs!
Meet the Dinosaurs,
They're the wrongest ones in history...
At the,
Crystal Palace,
They're all preserved for you and me.

Ahem. On the 25th of April I took the mighty Bronica ETRS and a roll of Ilford Pan F+ over to Crystal Palace  as I'd not used that camera since The Before Times and wanted to give it a run out before using it for anything more serious. The ETRS gets 15 shots to a roll of 120 film with negatives being 6 x 4.5 cm in size.

Here are a few of them.

The sporting area at Crystal Palace, which is apparently due a major renovation to make it more usable.
The sports arena

Not a game of Whack-A-Dino, but this head greets you on the way.
Dinosaur head

There's a lot of work going on with renovating the park, and so these are wrapped up.
Cosy Dinos

Welcoming you with gently smiling jaws.

A few on an island.
Island of Dinosaurs

Some areas were inaccessible due to work going on as you can see.

Just one boat at the lake

In reality these sphinxes are pinxses
A pair of sphinx either side of a stair

Showing some of the detail.

So it was a nice day for a stroll with a camera even if things didn't go quite as planned.

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