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Interesting rendering in the cool light of a cloudy afternoon in London, this scene almost looks monochrome ...
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.
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 ...
Decided to take out the 6D this afternoon and grabbed a couple of long exposures, one from a return visit to Christ Church Spitalfields, and this one just before getting the train home, taken from under Blackfriars Bridge, looking out towards St. Paul's and the ever-growing brace of skyscrapers in the city.
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.
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 ...
Architecture in London: One New Change
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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 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 ...
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..
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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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 …
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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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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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.
The aquadrome Olympic swimming pool in East London. This is the exterior cladding. Architect: Zaha Hadid.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Conegut oficialment com el London Millennium
Footbridge, el Millennium Bridge, és un pont penjant
d'acer per als vianants que creuen el riu Tàmesi a
Londres
Dades EXIF: 0'4s f11 ISO50 59mm
Sony A7iii + Tamron 28-75 f2.8
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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.
This is from a set of photographs I took when I visited the location back in December.
This was taken very closeup and has some crazy perspective distortion due to the proximity and wide-angle lens. I didn't post this one at the time as there were some annoying cranes messing up parts of the frame, but now with Adobe's new AI tools I can remove them much more easily and effectively ...
Fitzrovia Chapel was the chapel of the former Middlesex Hospital.
The hospital closed and was demolished but the chapel remains as a Grade II listed building. A real gem.
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 ...
Two icons of modern London, both as they were born around the turn of the century. The Millennium Wheel (as I still think of it) was opened to the public in March 2000, and Portcullis House opened its doors to the MPs of Westminster officially about a year later.
This area is always insanely busy, crammed with tourists, especially on a Saturday afternoon. However, if you raise the camera a little and zoom in you can pretend all the people aren't there, and focus on these neighbours who are just separated by the Thames ...