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The Sir Ludwig Guttman Medical Centre in the Stratford Olympic Village, East London, seen from the other side of the fence.
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I only found out about this building recently, but I knew I wanted to photograph it. Despite having been to Kew Gardens a few times over the years I'd somehow never noticed it had a royal palace within it!
Anyway, this was another occasion where I had to wait for quite a while under gloomy grey skies before the sun finally emerged for a few minutes and I could grab a handful of shots before the dull grey light resumed.
I knew there would likely be people coming and going constantly, so I took another long exposure shot to try and blend them away as best I could. Much like the previous shot of the Albert Hall, I got slightly lucky in having a dark, moody sky as the backdrop here rather than blown out white clouds.
Interestingly, a woman who worked at the house did come out and ask what I was doing, but I reassured her I was purely a hobbyist photographer and not a pro, and that seemed to allay her concerns. Using a tripod in places like this can sometimes bit risky as it certainly draws attention, but I'd looked online about whether tripods were permitted in the grounds and I was fairly sure it was okay. Always worth checking though ...
An interesting juxtaposition to be found here at the north end of Blackfriars Bridge. It got me wondering what Queen Victoria would have thought of The Shard. I suspect she might not have been amused ...
The same new apartment building in East London that I have photographed before. It is still under construction. To see my other image press here
Architects: Allies & Morrison
After (or during) the rain, London is perfect to photograph. A little water will not melt you, nor hurt your camera, I promise. The reflections can be splendid making for wonderful, and not often seen, London images. In fact, when grumpy weather arrives, which it can do so often in London, that is a cue for me to grab my camera and head out the door.
At one point, I had a bright idea to capture London reflection photos even when there was no rain. Is this possible?
I will not reveal my secret except to say the images included below were not manipulated in Photoshop. Honest. You'll see the Royal Exchange in the City of London, Buckingham Palace, London City Hall, the Apple Market in Covent Garden, Victoria Memorial in front of the Palace, the Golden Jubilee Bridges and London Eye, Harrod's and a double-decker bus, and the gates at Buckingham.
What I wanted to discover were scenes where we do not often find reflections. The project worked nicely with an Olympus camera, which is not a full frame. When I switched to the Canon 5D's, and the Hasselblad H4D and H5D did not work out as well for what I was doing. I'm not sure if the full frame sensors created issues or the lenses, but the images turned out horribly. And sadly, my beloved Olympus camera is long gone.
Thus, the project has been put on the back burner, though there is a small book in production. One day I will this project with a film camera as I found these images to be the best.
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After a few attempts down there, this is my best shot of these new escalators at Liverpool Street Station in the Elizabeth Line extension.
It's certainly challenging dealing with the dimness down there and trying to get a clean, people-free composition in the few seconds between groups of people either going up or coming down.
There was one of the station staff right in the spot I was planning on taking a picture, so rather than trying to be quick and grab a shot by stealth I decided to chat to him and explain what I was doing, that I wasn't a professional and that I really liked the new Elizabeth Line architecture and wanted to get a few people-free shots. Fortunately he was very amiable and didn't have any problems with me taking some photos with my 6D and big tilt shift lens. Having had problems with being told off by security guards in various other London locations, it was nice to be able to have a relaxed chat and then be able to snap away with impunity :)
I'm staying away from town this weekend due to the continuing rail chaos, but we'll see if I manage to revisit some of the new stations and get some other shots of the futuristic new architecture down there ...
One of the London Underground's more epic entrances, designed by Foster + Partners and opened back in 1999.
I love the iPhone's 4:3 aspect ratio for this shot as it gives some extra height that you don't get with the more standard 3:2 camera format.
Always a challenge though finding that split second where you can get a people-free shot on a busy weekend ...
Another of my handheld 'over-the-bridge' shots looking towards the burgeoning supermoon as it rose across the city rooftops of London. This crop in reduces the scene even more to the essential elements.
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I did a quick little pre-work walk over to the BT Tower this morning, which is only about 10 minutes away from the BBC.
Just a minimal composition looking almost directly up into the misty sky which was shrouding the top of the tower.
It looks like I made the image black and white, but it is actually in colour ...
I last captured this scene about 7 years ago and the cluster of city towers was much sparser back then!
This shot was taken with the aid of the Platypod Extreme which perfectly balanced on the huge banister here and afforded my Canon 6D a stable base for the 280 second exposure time ...
Architecture in London: 30 St Mary Axe (informally called The Gherkin and previously as the Swiss Roll Building) is a commercial skyscraper in the City of London. The building was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. It is 41 stories, and 180 metros (591 ft) tall. It stands on the former site of the Baltic Exchange, which was damaged in 1992 by a bomb explosion placed by the Provisional IRA in St Mary Axe, the street from which the tower takes its name.
The skies were moody. The hail came down. Then the sun came out. Welcome to British weather.
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To give it its full name, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park is a sporting complex built for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Situated to the east of the city adjacent to the Stratford City development, it contains the athletes' Olympic Village and several of the sporting venues including the Olympic Stadium and London Aquatics Centre, besides the London Olympics Media Centre. The park is overlooked by the Arcelor Mittal Orbit, an observation tower and Britain's largest piece of public art.
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The jagged roofline of an East London building flirting with a street lamp in the twilight. Photo taken in a Hackney side street.
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Another photo of 'Unex Tower', a new mixed use residential/commercial building overlooking Stratford Bus Station in East London.
Architects: Allies & Morrison
A new perspective on this curious piece of Postmodern architecture in the City, juxtaposed with the more classical forms of Mansion House and 1 Princes Street on either side.
This is a telephoto view from further away than I've usually photographed the building, which rather flattens it out and reveals the chunky wedge shape of that entire block ...
Went to work early one December morning to catch sunrise, and struck lucky with an eerie Thames smog. The mist was swirling fast around the Shard and Millennium Bridge, and wonderful to have a relatively empty London.
A recent lunchtime visit to the British Museum; the atrium comes alive in the sun where the shadows and the tones on the brickwork speak for themselves.
Beautiful piece of architectural design, especially the lattice roof.
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Architecture in London: Big Ben
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I saw these impressive sculptures for the first time recently, and knew I had to pop back with a tripod and my 17mm tilt shift lens in order to have a crack at capturing them in a single-frame photograph.
A challenging location for a number of reasons. One of which is the limited space available in which to back up in order to fit the scene in. Also it was slightly frustrating that a few of the floodlights in the base don't work which means it's rather unevenly lit.
Plus, after a little while standing there I had a helpful security guard from one of the nearby buildings come up and say I wasn't allowed to take photographs there. I'm not sure for what reason, and also if it's a legally enforceable rule, but having already got a few decent shots I complied and stopped snapping after he'd walked past.
I might try and do some research to try and find out if hobbyist photography really is prohibited in that area, or whether he was being over-zealous.
I got this shot just as we were entering blue hour, and another one during the tail end of the daylight, both of which I will call a success, and justified schlepping in to work with my 6D and tripod in tow today.
Built in 2002, the alternate name for this is the Paternoster Vents, and they actually provide ventilation for an underground electrical substation built at that location ...
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