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This photograph was taken at dusk from a spot at the North bank of River Thames near to Millennium Bridge. The lights on the Blackfriars Pier for river boats were already switched on. The Blackfriars railway bridge, with its distinctive illuminated and colourful roof panels, could be seen across the photograph. The One Blackfriars apartment building, a 50-storey 170m high tower, stood tall on the South bank.
The long exposure photograph captured the light trails of a river boat approaching the Blackfriars Pier. These light trails provided dynamism to the beautiful urban scape.
Best wishes for a relaxing Sunday!
London Eye, formerly The Millennium Wheel.
Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London - United Kingdom.
This photo was taken from Westminster Bridge.
A few weeks back, on what started out as a misty morning, I decided I'd rush up to London to see if I could take advantage of the mist for some architectural photography. Well, I'm not really someone that is very good at rushing anywhere and so it goes without saying that by the time I got into London the mist had all but gone. There is very slight evidence of it here in the distant Canary Wharf architecture on the right and those buildings on the left but that was about as much mist as I got that morning. The view here is of the HMS Belfast, a second world war Royal Navy warship permanently moored in the Thames as a tourist attraction. In the background of course the always photogenic Tower Bridge.
It's my first trip and my first film in 2022 and It's the first time that I went to the travel with my family.
Photo Date: 11 Feb 2022
Located: London, England, UK
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho
The Palace of Westminster and the Elizabeth Tower or Big Ben as most people know it. Big Ben was actually the second bell made for the tower. The first was made just down the road from where I live back in August 1856. It was the biggest bell ever made at the time and after being transported to London by ship it cracked during testing. It was broken down and recast as 'Big Ben'. That was not the end of it though, the bell again cracked and remains cracked to this date!
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Taken a couple of months ago on a day when the mist was just starting to retreat. The bridge is Southwark Bridge, the building in the distance is 1 Blackfriars Road. The lens I used was a 200mm full frame equivalent which compresses the scene nicely.
I've turned comments off for this image as I'm going to be off Flickr for a day or two and I won't have the time to reply to your kind comments.
Tower Bridge is the most famous building in London, built in the Victorian style. Its history began in 1872, when the English Parliament passed an act to build a second bridge over the Thames. However, a condition was set that the style of the bridge should harmonize with the style of the castle. It is a drawbridge near the "Tower of London", where it gets its name.
The bridge was completed in 1894; it allows the passage of ocean-going ships up to about 40.5 m above the water level.
A characteristic element of the bridge are two main towers, connected at the top by two pedestrian bridges.
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Tower Bridge jest najbardziej znanym obiektem w Londynie, zbudowanym w stylu wiktoriańskim. Jego historia zaczęła się w roku 1872, kiedy to parlament angielski uchwalił ustawę dotyczącą budowy drugiego mostu nad Tamizą. Postawiono jednak warunek, aby styl mostu harmonizował ze stylem zamku. Jest to most zwodzony w pobliżu "Tower of London", skąd bierze swą nazwę.
Budowę mostu ukończono w 1894 roku; umożliwia przepływanie statków oceanicznych do około 40,5 m wysokości powyżej poziomu wody.
Charakterystycznym elementem mostu są dwie wieże główne, połączone u góry dwoma pomostami dla pieszych.
London city hall, designed by the Norman Foster architectural partnership, was completed back in 2002 and is home to the mayor of London and the London Assembly. Looking through to the middle of the structure you can see the helical staircase that leads to the top of the building and which every photographer would love to shoot. In fact the building was open to the public before the Covid crises but as the building is a 'working' office space much of the building was off limits to anyone choosing to drop in for a visit, including that wonderful staircase. At any rate I still haven't had a chance to photograph the inside of the building properly yet.
This was shot last winter on a camera club outing to London that I helped organise to shoot architecture, something a lot of our members don't necessarily shoot that often. I only went back to my photos from that day earlier today as I discovered that I still had 60 or 70 on my hard disk that I hadn't done any work on. So expect one or two more in the coming weeks. You have been warned.
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