{"id":4503,"date":"2024-12-31T00:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2025-03-25T00:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:57:44","slug":"view-of-london-skyline-from-caesars-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/31\/view-of-london-skyline-from-caesars-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"View of London skyline from Caesar&#8217;s Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In these winter months, sunrise is still too late, and sunset too early, severely limiting the amount of daylight we can enjoy. The poor weather added to that does not offer much incentive to go on long walks. However, one week into my holidays, I had to get out of the house. P could not accompany me, so I took the opportunity to climb Caesar&#8217;s Camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going up the hill was tiring, and the wind at the top was chilling. But the view was breathtaking. The visibility was so good that the London skyline could be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"853\" data-attachment-id=\"4502\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/projection-rectilinear-0fov-10-x-4ev-11-56\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Eddy Young&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Projection: Rectilinear (0)\\nFOV: 10 x 4\\nEv: 11.56&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1735563057&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright (C) 2024&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Projection: Rectilinear (0)\\nFOV: 10 x 4\\nEv: 11.56&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"View from Caesar&amp;#8217;s Camp\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-300x100.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-1024x341.jpg\" data-id=\"4502\" src=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Panoramic view of London skyline in the distance\" class=\"wp-image-4502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-30A-008-2024-12-30A-009-2048x683.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">London skyline seen from 40 miles away<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these winter months, sunrise is still too late, and sunset too early, severely limiting the amount of daylight we can enjoy. The poor weather added to that does not offer much incentive to go on long walks. However, one week into my holidays, I had to get out of the house. P could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-1aD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4601,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/08\/up-caesars-camp-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":4503,"position":0},"title":"Up Caesar&#8217;s Camp again","author":"Eddy Young","date":"8 March 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Hello, Spring. 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