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This extension to the classic architecture of the Natural History Museum still has a futuristic vibe despite being nearly 50 years old itself ...
An intimate perspective on this rather hulking example of the Brutalist architecture style, which resides next door to St. James's Park tube station, just up the road from Wesminster Abbey.
This is about the closest you can get and capture the building in its entirety in a single frame.
Having visited the Trellick Tower recently, I decided to visit another example of Brutalist architecture in London - The Standard Hotel at King's Cross.
Originally built in 1973 and serving as an extension to the nearby Camden Town Hall, it was recently refurbished and re-opened as the Standard Hotel in 2019.
Three extra storeys were added to the top of the building, which added height makes it another quite challenging building to capture in a photograph.
The adjacent road is very busy, and trying to grab a shot without traffic in was pretty difficult. I took a few photos from the pavement level, but that made the vehicles even more prominent, so this shot is from the raised section opposite which is part of the Renaissance St Pancras Hotel.
This is a two shot vertical panorama, taken with my camera on a tripod at its very heighest position to try and see over the head-height wall that blocks the view from there ...
Two iconic London phone boxes side-by-side in front of St Paul's Cathedral at Christmas.
Oh, and there's a passing double decker too :-)
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From a recent wander around the City, here's one of my occasional iPhone shots, this time another of London's many quirkily-shaped towers. This is the one at 70 St. Mary Axe, just a few doors up from the OG quirky London building the Gherkin.
Sometimes, depending on the light conditions and the perspective from which I'm taking the photograph, the iPhone can do pretty good alright job. Only using the Lightroom Mobile app's camera rather than the iPhone stock 'Camera' app, as the iPhone tends to slightly over-aggressively process the HDR effect, whereas Lightroom is a little more naturalistic, and you have some level of manual control over shutter speed and ISO ...
Happened to see this building whilst walking through Russell Square over the weekend. Never heard of it before, but I thought it was interesting.
It's on the same site as a previous, much grander hotel with the same name which was demolished in the 1960s and replaced with the current, somewhat dated design.
I don't know if this would be considered a work in the brutalist style but it certainly has brutalist-adjacent features.
I also quite like the period font used for the hotel name ...
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Looking up at the side of one of the buildings in the Minster Court development, showing more of the aggressive neo-gothic styling ...
I was in the area and this little composition stood out to me; I liked the juxtaposition of architectural generations, with St. Andrew Undershaft and the Gherkin reflected in the glassworl of The Scalpel.
That strong diagonal white line in the Scalpel almost makes it look like a Photoshop composite of multiple images..
I don't know anything about this building but the light was hitting it nicely and it was a good challenge fitting it into another 2-shot vertical panorama composition.
This is 180 degrees from the other view posted recently looking at the City skyscrapers. Also here we have almost the perfect level of cloud cover to make an interesting sky ...
Blue hour over a beautifully lit Canary Wharf...
Do you know why it is called 'Canary Wharf'? Well, it's because this area, a wharf, used to receive massive imports of Bananas from the Canary Islands. When times changed, the trade diminished but the name lives on...
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A recent revisit with the intention of getting that ever-tricky people-free view of a location that is almost always teeming with people.
I didn't quite manage it from the elevated viewpoint as they seem to clear the upper gallery areas first when it gets to closing time. But I was fairly chuffed to grab this low-down perspective and not have to clone out any people - I just managed a single frame when no-one was walking through or even at the edges of the composition.
Thanks go to my little 'Green Pod' bean bag for providing the camera stabilisation. Very handy in places where tripods aren't welcome (i.e. most of London!). Also opted to use the Fuji X-T2 with 10-24mm lens as the Canon 6D doesn't have a flip up LCD which can make floor shots like this nigh-on impossible to frame up ...
A former workplace of mine during the days when the World Service still broadcast from the building, this is Bush House.
These days it's part of the King's College campus but from this view it looks pretty much identical to how it did when I worked there ten years ago.
Paddington has come on leaps and bounds over the past 5 years. The architecture, the waterways, the barges all add to a wonderful scene, especially once the sun has set.
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Another vintage shot from my 2014 Lightroom library, taken with my original DSLR, the Canon 550D, coupled with the Sigma 10-20mm lens which was my go-to wide angle lens to pair with that camera's crop sensor.
This is another of those views that doesn't exist anymore as that original cluster of towers has started to get crowded in with a bunch of new additions to the skyline.
I like the deep blue of the sky on that day ...
London's Southbank in all it's glory...
The London Eye makes a cameo appearance too!
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After a long photowalk with patient friends, we took to the DLR to get us back into Central London.
The view from East India DLR station was stunning so out came the tripod and i took a few long exposures.
Tip 1: Take any planned shot once the trains have left as the whole platform wobbles!
Tip 2: Tripods not allowed! Although i didn't know this at the time.
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Interesting to see that the Centre Point building appears now to be fully gift-wrapped, and guarded by a brace of haughty red cranes.
This is taken from The Heights bar/restaurant, in Regent Street just adjacent to the BBC where I work ...
The aquadrome Olympic swimming pool in East London. This is the exterior cladding. Architect: Zaha Hadid.
This is the new tower 22 Bishopsgate which I only noticed looks pretty finished just recently. Got lucky whilst on a little stroll through the city and saw a novel vantage point from which to take a snap of it.
This is another shot taken using the mighty Canon TS-E 17mm tilt shift lens which I rented recently. The only way to get a landscape-format shot from this position and fit all of its height in the frame …
Here's one from the archives, back when you could still see this iconic London building without having the view blocked by endless luxury apartment blocks.
This is a freshly re-processed shot taken with my first DSLR, the Canon 550D, with its kit lens back in January 2013 ...
I have no idea how many photos I have taken of the Millennium footbridge and St Paul's Cathedral but they have to be among my most photographed places in London. The Millennium Bridge was used in the movie "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" so lots of youngsters recognize the bridge. It is a lovely walk from Westminster Bridge along the south side of the river Thames to Tower Bridge, but very sadly I am no longer able to walk it. Photo taken using my Samsung phone camera.
A recent sunny morning walk to work took me across a rather frosty and slippery Westminster Bridge. Some nice light on the scene on such a clear morning ...
One of my 'architecture on the slant' photos. See another photo of this building here.
The location was next to the Barbican in London. The building looks empty, I hope that it isn't doomed for demolition.
After so many years of refurbishment, this iconic London location is finally open to the public. I popped by on Sunday afternoon, but it was predictably heaving, so I'm trying to find a time to go back when it's quiet to get some people-free shots of the interior ...
A square version of my recent 'Concrete Diamonds' photo.
An attempt at different and more dynamic image of the much photographed, greatly loved, but soon to be demolished, iconic Welbeck Street Car Park in London.
Architect: Michael R Blampied & Partners - 1971
Update 2020: This building has now been demolished.
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The Greenwich Park is well known, but what is not well known is that there is more than one hill there, and these other hills afford far better views of the city. This is the view from one of them. We can see the Old Royal Naval College and the Isle of Dogs with its towers in the background.
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