{"id":1844,"date":"2019-07-04T13:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2020-03-04T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:14:53","slug":"the-great-exhibition-road-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/2019\/07\/04\/the-great-exhibition-road-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Exhibition Road Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The weekend in pictures.<\/h2>\n<p>So our inaugural Great Exhibition Road Festival has wrapped up, let&#8217;s look at pictures!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/1920_190629_GERF_angus_002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1852 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Glorious sunshine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_001-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1851 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d quite like to live in space shed man&#8217;s world, it looks fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_018-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1857 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_018.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Exhibition Road was full of Festival crowns&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_024-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1859 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Queen Victoria back for one day only, to check that the Exhibition was indeed great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190629_GERF_dan_259-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190629_GERF_dan_259.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Dan Weill, Imperial College London\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The free ice lolly man outside the V&amp;A, right place, right time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_067-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_067.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A future astronaut suits up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_003-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hot and busy, Exhibition Road comes to life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_143-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1870 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_143.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Simple tasks taking on new life with virtual reality fly vision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190629_GERF_mieszkoswki_120-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"502\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190629_GERF_mieszkoswki_120.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Jo Mieszkowski, Imperial College London<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keeping everyone stocked up with Festival crowns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190629_GERF_guttridge_086.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190629_GERF_guttridge_086.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Dave Guttridge, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Alumni Weekend was in full swing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_192b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1876 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_192b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Right outside, solar powered bugs were zipping all over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_136-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1900 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/7190701_GERF_festival_136-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Alice Gast wears the robot suit to help Robot DE NIRO entertain curious minds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_045-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1861 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_045.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty hot day for a deep sea suit at the Nature Zone, but this little fellow didn&#8217;t mind one bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190629_GERF_dan_174-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1890 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190629_GERF_dan_174.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Dan Weill, Imperial College London<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The dappled light through the trees of Prince&#8217;s Gardens offered a lovely, and cooler, spot to sit down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190629_GERF_guttridge_136.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1894 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/751190629_GERF_guttridge_136.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Dave Guttridge, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Prince&#8217;s Gardens minds were busy in the Curiosity Zone<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_296-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1904 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/7190701_GERF_festival_296-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wiping out bacteria takes real concentration in the Infection Zone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_110-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1863 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_110.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The giant Imperial letters provide a nice location for a proud father and daughter photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_021-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1858 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_021.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder what regular passers by made of the whole thing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_272-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1875 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_272.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A future scientist is born.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_029-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1860 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_029.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Music performances were a regular feature of the weekend all around Exhibition Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_231-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1846 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_231.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taking climate change seriously, these youngsters light up the city with wind power in the Greener Futures Zone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_120-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1864 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_120.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jesse from the Social Media team live reporting from the event, the video he is recording in this picture <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imperialcollege\/status\/1145320988969775106\">can be seen on Imperial&#8217;s Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_157-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1873 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_157.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Robot Zone and the emotion-mimicking robot that never ceases to fascinate everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_155-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1901 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/7190701_GERF_festival_155-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sharing the wonder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1964 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_052-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An incredible end to the weekend and a rammed Exhibition Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_GERF_festival_122-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"751\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1899 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/7190701_GERF_festival_122-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Packing down at the end of the day and the robot hockey goes home to the Robot Intelligence Lab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/D-ZRbiEXsAUZoDc.jpg-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"417\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1907 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2019\/07\/zD-ZRbiEXsAUZoDc.jpg-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9 Thomas Angus, Imperial College London\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.and I finally got my face on the College Homepage&#8230; kind of.<\/p>\n<h3>View all the images from the Festival (there are a LOT)<\/h3>\n<p>Imperial staff and students can view all the original images featured in this post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/asset-library.imperial.ac.uk\/assetbank-imperial\/action\/browseItems?categoryId=45600&amp;categoryTypeId=2\">Imperial College London Asset Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Read about my all time <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/2018\/04\/19\/featured-images-fringe-festival\/\">favourite Festival and Fringe images here<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about photography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Photography-Night-Low-Light-tutorials\/Introduction-Photography\/376379-2.html?srchtrk=index%3a6%0alinktypeid%3a2%0aq%3aphotography+framing+for+beginners%0apage%3a1%0as%3arelevance%0asa%3atrue%0aproducttypeid%3a2\">Watch this introduction to photography video course on Lynda.com\u00a0<\/a>(College users have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/staff-development\/development-options\/online-resources\/lynda-com\/\">free access to Lynda courses<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend in pictures. 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