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Day 253. An interesting number...only because its factors are 11 and 23, whose digits in sequence are the start of the Fibonacci sequence. Interesting if you like that sort of thing. Anyway, I've managed to avoid using the Boris bikes until now, but couldn't resist with this one.
I went to the Barbican, London, with my camera club last week. Sifting through my photos I came across this one and thought Fence Friday, I haven't posted anything with a fence for a long time. HFF and wising you all a great weekend.
In the lit floors ahead of us, a cleaner went about her work - the first sign of life we'd seen for a good 20 minutes. I didn't mind her - she wasn't threatening.
The highwalks aren't just boring straight lines of course - this is the capital! This one weaved its way around the ruins of a church and underneath another new office. It's the type of urban planning and design that just makes me feel at ease.
The previous photograph was taken just above this one, on the winding highwalk. Speaking of which, I love that stained bronze underside. The colour stands out from the old stone of the ruin and the much lighter, plain colours of the surrounding buildings.
The way they have built around the ruin is lovely too- it's unaffected but also surrounded by the modern, the simple LED-lit railing helping you to step back into the past.
There is a story behind this. I had planned a trip to London for my Local Camera Club and this picture was taken on this We had 12 in the group. One of out locations was the Highwalks near the Barbican. While researching this on the Internet I came across a reference to another relic of the mainly lost Highwalk system in the City of London. This is a little known link that leads directly from The Monument (to the Great Fire of London) to one of the best views in London – an elevated, river-bank view of Tower Bridge from the elevated plaza at St Magnus House. It passes through a couple of buildings, one on each side of Lower Thames Street, before opening out to a podium for the view, and a convenient staircase (ignored by the great majority that pass below it) that then drops directly down onto the Thames Path. The pathway and the Plaza are run by the City of London although you would assume from looking at them that they were private especially as they go through buildings.
The Plaza which is in front of St Magnus House, an Office Block is a good height above the Thames and as well as Tower Bridge it is opposite the Shard and very close to London Bridge. I have not seen other pictures from this viewpoint so it is nice to discover it. On our trip this was the last location of the day.
The picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Tamron 18-300mm zoom at 35mm. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. The picture was enhanced with HDR processing using fusion real estate setting in Photomatix for a natural look; Topaz and Photoshop were used to bring in more detail. More overall detail was brought in using Topaz Clarity.
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Immediately adjacent to the Barbican is an area that is far more modern. Just recently the 'highwalks' have returned, allowing pedestrians to walk above the roads. I have to say, I absolutely loved it. All new buildings and exciting little raised avenues... all nicely lit and silent. I really enjoyed my time there.
At one end of the walkways was this sleek bridge that attached itself to one of the new buildings. The simple design... ugh. It's great. I'm not a fan of London because of the people but what I wouldn't give to have some of that design in my pokey little town.
Crossing over Fore Street on St Alphage Highwalk, approaching Willoughby House in the Barbican Centre
A series of nine ceramic murals by Dorothy Annan, 1960, on display on Speed Highwalk in the Barbican.
Originally commissioned for the former Fleet Building on Farringdon Street (home to the Central Telegraph Office), the murals represent aspects of the (then) hi-tech world of telephones and television.
Fleet House was demolished in 2015, following the relocation of the murals to the Barbican in 2013.
A concrete ladder! If only there were such a thing. Fans of Brutalism (like me!) could spend many happy hours climbing up and down it, marvelling at the harshness of its rough aggregate surface.
In fact this is a rather more run-of-the-mill set of concrete steps, shot from above. I rotated the image 90 degrees to the right. So it's a bit of a cheat. Sorry.
The stairs provide pedestrian access from Bastion Highwalk on London Wall down to the road leading into Bastion House's lower service level.
A shot of two halves. Buildings these days (do I sound old?) can be so deep, so vast that they can consume a shot, even when going wide-angle. I like then, the contrast between the two halves of this image. To the left: the big old hunk of office block. To the right: an entire street scene leading towards the Barbican.
I really loved the stretch of lit 'corridor' across the side of this office. Unfortunately the vertical planting hadn't really been looked after and wasn't looking too happy. But that clean, modern section of our night walk felt special - I wish more urban spaces were like this.
I took a couple of shots from this same spot on the highwalk. It was the 'corridor' of the office block that really appealed to me and so here's a large crop to emphasise that. Thanks to the handrail and the building's overhang, there was this deliberate line/cut off to the building.
More of this please, London.
St Alphage Highwalk, London. The high walk is part of Make Architects' design for the whole site that encompasses 1 and 2 London Wall office buildings as well as the surrounding public space.
Barbican, City of London, England - Charterhouse, St Alphage High Walk
March 2023
headed back to Santa Fe tomorrow for a couple of weeks.. hate to say goodbye to NY so much good stuff going on.
Yesterday was the annual Bushwick Collective Block Party so many great images to come! Keep checking my blog at bytegirlphotography.com and thanks again for all the looks!
This shot took place in a bit of a hurry. My family and I went to see the new Highwalk in Rotenburg a. d. Fulda. I scouted the location for some nice photos as the weather was excellent: a bit of some snow with rime and lots of fog. For quite a while, I didn't find any good compositions and right after packing up, I witnessed this beautiful view. So, I re-assembled the view camera and got to work. I didn't have much time left until the Highwalk closed, so I had to hurry a bit.
The ground glass kept fogging up, as did my glasses. That's why the image is just a tad bit out of focus, very annoying but manageable. My tripod head failed to lock at first and to add insult to injury, a nut dropped from my camera before making the exposure, further instabilizing the plane of focus. All very classic ;)
In the darkroom, I decided to crop the shot a little around the bottom. I did some dodging and burning to elevate the contrast a little but preserve detail. The paper has storage damage on the right side, it's not too bad, though.
When looking carefully, you can see the end of the Highwalk bridge in the left side of the shot. It's faintly visible through the fog!
Intrepid 4x5 Mk5 + Schneider-Kreuznach Super Angulon 90mm f8 + Kodak T-MAX 100
Printed on (ancient) Tetenal Work RC 310 using Rollei RPN Eco in 1+9.
Film developed in Adox Rodinal (1+50; 12:00) at 20 °C
Expiry date: 1999-02
Exposure index: 64
Print scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.
City of London
I messed up the exposure on this shot - it was about 3 stops underexposed. But despite (or maybe because of) the resulting noise I quite like its slightly soft texture.
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John Trundle Court (highwalk level), Barbican Estate, City of London. A brutalist residential and leisure development designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and built between 1965-76.
St Alphage Highwalk, London. The high walk is part of Make Architects' design for the whole site that encompasses 1 and 2 London Wall office buildings as well as the surrounding public space.
Barbican, City of London, England - Charterhouse, St Alphage High Walk
March 2023
This was taken on my last London visit early this month. This is a new viewpoint for me from the end of an overhead pedestrian walkway or pedway and part of the barbican estate. This is overlooking the street called London Wall where there has been a lot of new development recently. I found it because I was checking out some streets on Google Street view and came across a new pedestrian bridge over the road further to the right of where this was taken. This led to more exploration of this area as night was falling. The Pedways of the City of London have an interesting history. They evolved out of a plan to transform traffic flows in the City of London by separating pedestrians from street level traffic using elevated walkways. First devised as part of the post World War II reconstruction plans for London, it was put into effect mainly from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, and had been largely discontinued by the 1980s. Many have been lost to new skyscrapers and the main area with a continuous network remaining is the Barbican Estate which London Wall adjoins.
The picture was taken with a tripod with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle at 10mm. I took 3 shots for HDR processed in Photomatix using Tone Balancer for a natural look. Topaz Clarity for more detail. There was a fair bit of processing to get it just right. Just one image was used for the people on the pavement and even then looking very ghostly. Hue saturation adjustment layers were used to warm up the lights inside the buildings and bring out the reds in the traffic trails some of which started out a little faint. I cropped for better framing. I used filter- lens correction- perspective to bring the buildings upright.
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Concrete staircases linking the office building at 140 London Wall (Bastion House) to Bastion Highwalk.
polaroid week is always such a feast for the eyes!!
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