Corona-Commuter | Palace Of Westminster
So, anyone who happens to follow me on Instagram will have seen this before, but I felt it was time to move on from my set of photographs from my week's stay in the Peak District just prior to lockdown.
For my day job, I'm a sound engineer at the BBC, in the Radio Current Affairs department. We mainly produce programmes for Radio 4 and the World Service, but also I've mixed documentaries for Radio 1, 2 and 3 there as well.
There is still very much a need for at least one of the sound engineers to be in the building on a daily basis to help keep the studios functioning as well as continuing to edit and mix our programmes.
So during this lockdown period I have been carrying on going to work at New Broadcasting House near Oxford Circus. I've modified my daily commute to cut out the local train that gets me from Wimbledon Chase to Wimbledon, and also the tube I used to catch from Vauxhall to Oxford Circus. Which leaves those parts of the journeys for me to walk. It all adds up to just shy of 10 miles per day all in, and I've managed it for the past three weeks without too much fatigue to my feet and legs so far!
Up until now my favoured route has taken me along the Albert Embankment and then past the Palace Of Westminster, which is generally a nice long stretch of walkway.
Lately though it's become increasingly crowded with joggers and dog walkers so I am modifying it to cross over Vauxhall Bridge and then left before Tate Britain and then up Marsham St and Great Smith St en route to St. James's Park and then Green Park.
One morning last week I was particularly taken with the clarity of this view over to the Palace Of Wesminster, the stillness of the Thames, and the wonderful blue sky reflected in the water. This was a quick snap using my trusty old Sony RX100 MK3 compact camera.
It'll be a significant moment when the renovation works have finished and we can see (and hear) it in all its glory once again in a few more years ...
Corona-Commuter | Palace Of Westminster
So, anyone who happens to follow me on Instagram will have seen this before, but I felt it was time to move on from my set of photographs from my week's stay in the Peak District just prior to lockdown.
For my day job, I'm a sound engineer at the BBC, in the Radio Current Affairs department. We mainly produce programmes for Radio 4 and the World Service, but also I've mixed documentaries for Radio 1, 2 and 3 there as well.
There is still very much a need for at least one of the sound engineers to be in the building on a daily basis to help keep the studios functioning as well as continuing to edit and mix our programmes.
So during this lockdown period I have been carrying on going to work at New Broadcasting House near Oxford Circus. I've modified my daily commute to cut out the local train that gets me from Wimbledon Chase to Wimbledon, and also the tube I used to catch from Vauxhall to Oxford Circus. Which leaves those parts of the journeys for me to walk. It all adds up to just shy of 10 miles per day all in, and I've managed it for the past three weeks without too much fatigue to my feet and legs so far!
Up until now my favoured route has taken me along the Albert Embankment and then past the Palace Of Westminster, which is generally a nice long stretch of walkway.
Lately though it's become increasingly crowded with joggers and dog walkers so I am modifying it to cross over Vauxhall Bridge and then left before Tate Britain and then up Marsham St and Great Smith St en route to St. James's Park and then Green Park.
One morning last week I was particularly taken with the clarity of this view over to the Palace Of Wesminster, the stillness of the Thames, and the wonderful blue sky reflected in the water. This was a quick snap using my trusty old Sony RX100 MK3 compact camera.
It'll be a significant moment when the renovation works have finished and we can see (and hear) it in all its glory once again in a few more years ...