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View from roof terrace of One New Change shopping mall overlooking the St. Paul Cathedral.
Architect (One New Change): Jean Nouvel
(St. Paul Cathedral): Christopher Wren
One of London's classic remaining examples of the Brutalist architectural style. Saddened by the recent demolition of the car park at Welbeck Street, I'm glad to discover that this building has been Grade II listed so hopefully its continuing future has been secured.
I was slightly gutted when I arrived at this location to discover there was a big black hoarding setup around the base, but thought it was still worth taking a few snaps. Hopefully if I come back in a few months it might be gone.
I've seen a lot of the same upwards-facing perspective type photographs on Flickr, but not many that capture the building in its entirety. This was another one where that was possible thanks to the fabulous Canon 17mm tilt shift lens ...
A return visit to this location - I previously took a shot of No.3 Broadgate after first discovering it last spring. This is from the other side and in slightly less subtle light.
There's a huge amount of building work going on there at the moment, in fact that building that used to be on the right of this frame is no longer there since my previous visit, and they are building a new complex which I'm sure will spring up over the next couple of years.
After my experience with the security guard last time I was much more cautious re: waving around my professional-looking DSLR and instead took several shots with my iPhone before subtly deploying my 6D with tilt shift lens!
Shot during a stay at the wonderful RadissonBlu hotel in New Providence Wharf.
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Tower Bridge is an iconic and world famous Bridge in London. I took this photo on a beautiful day with my Nikon camera. I am no longer able to walk very far but did love the walk from Westminster Bridge along the south side of the river to Tower Bridge as there is so many interesting sights to see. A walk over the bridge and you can visit The Tower of London a castle built by the Normans back in 1078.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. It crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the City Bridge Foundation, a charitable trust founded in 1282.
The bridge was constructed to connect the 39 per cent of London's population that lived east of London Bridge, equivalent to the populations of "Manchester on the one side, and Liverpool on the other", while allowing shipping to access the Pool of London between the Tower of London and London Bridge. The bridge was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, and Alexandra, Princess of Wales, on 30 June 1894.
The bridge is 940 feet (290 m) in length including the abutments[4] and consists of two 213-foot (65 m) bridge towers connected at the upper level by two horizontal walkways, and a central pair of bascules that can open to allow shipping. Originally hydraulically powered, the operating mechanism was converted to an electro-hydraulic system in 1972. The bridge is part of the London Inner Ring Road and thus the boundary of the London congestion charge zone, and remains an important traffic route with 40,000 crossings every day. The bridge deck is freely accessible to both vehicles and pedestrians, whereas the bridge's twin towers, high-level walkways, and Victorian engine rooms form part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition.
Tower Bridge has become a recognisable London landmark. It is sometimes confused with London Bridge, about 0.5 miles (800 m) upstream, which has led to a persistent urban legend about an American purchasing the wrong bridge.
Just next to Westminster Cathedral is this interesting modular-look office building, which houses John Lewis - not a branch of the store, but the administrative HQ offices. It dates back to the mid-70s.
I happened to be there at just the right time of day for the sun to be catching this side of the building nicely. This is another tilt-shift special, capturing the whole structure in a single frame ...
7 More London
7 More London is the final and largest building to be constructed under the masterplan for the More London site. The 10 storey, 60 000 building incorporates 48 000m of office space located above ground floor retail units. Construction of the building’s shell is complete; its glazed, symmetrical wings of offices open out to embrace the river revealing a hollow circular drum, housing the reception, at its core. Three curved bridges connect these two wings at levels two, five and eight, while at the rear the building’s southern elevation drops to seven storeys to respect the existing buildings along Tooley Street. Inside work is underway to fit out the offices ready for the building’s 6000 occupants, which will have moved in to their new home by May 2011.
More London is a development on the south bank of the River Thames, immediately south-west of Tower Bridge in London. The southern exit is on Tooley Street.
Never taken a photograph of this building before but this is the same Mansion House that lends its name to the nearby tube station. It was built in the mid-1700s and is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London.
When I arrived in the City the light falling on it was beautiful so I’m glad I grabbed a shot using my 17mm tilt shift lens enabling me to fit it all in the frame from fairly close proximity …
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 ...
This is looking up at a circular balcony between two archways....to the sky....A balcony fit for a Princess........
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.
I set myself the challenge to take shots of objects/buildings/stuff around the city that have interesting graphical qualities.....................really, I was looking for anything with cool shapes!
A view of the Houses of Parliament as of early March 2022, with Big Ben (the Elizabeth Tower) nearly free of the scaffolding that it's been wearing for the past 5 years.
This is a long exposure of 4 minutes, taken using the Firecrest 16-stop screw-in ND filter. This seems to fix a couple of problems I frequently had with my older square slot-in Formatt Hi-Tech ND filters.
One was light leaks round the sides of the filter holder. I used to have to use gaffer tape to seal up the gap at the top to prevent this messing up the images. Also I would get quite noticeable vignetting, especially when using my wide angle lens at 17mm. And finally the old filters would always give me a tricky colour cast on the images which I found almost impossible to correct in Lightroom, not helped by my red/green colourblindness which made it more difficult to know what sliders to use to try and correct the problem!
The only real downside with the screw-in filter is that you have to be really careful when screwing it on to the lens so that you don't accidentally change the focus ring or affect the zoom distance as any real backwards pressure on the lens element can compress your zoom lens making you widen the field of view and changing your composition.
Another reprocessed shot from a couple of years ago, with the benefit of a couple of extra years of Lightroom experience.
This is actually a shot from one of my first times experimenting with long exposures, after having bought a screw in 10 stop ND filter to use with the Sigma 10-20mm lens that was my go-to wideangle at the time, paired with the Canon 550D.
I'd originally discarded this shot, but when looking at it again I really liked it, particularly those lovely blues ...
The current view from Waterloo Bridge looking east towards the skycrapers of the Square Mile.
Tricky to get a good long exposure due to the fairly strong wind blowing over the bridge, combined with buses pounding past every few minutes. In the end I put the tripod down very low to try and stabilise it as much as possible ...
A Victorian corrugated iron church in East London, possibly the oldest example in existence, having been assembled in 1858. This one was nicknamed 'The Shrub' because of its location in Shrubland Road, Hackney.
A new viewpoint for this snap of the iconic London church. I liked the fact that the tree on the left appears to be shaped to perfectly frame the south west tower ...
Love this colourful scene, just next to the Tate Modern in the Bankside area.
Had a look for prices of flats in this building and they seem very reasonable - £750k-£1m for a one bedroom place ...
Southwark Cathedral formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, is a Church of England cathedral in Southwark, London, near the south bank of the River Thames and close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Diocese of Southwark. It has been a place of Christian worship for more than 1,000 years, but the church was not raised to cathedral status until the creation of the diocese of Southwark in 1905.
Between 1106 and 1538, it was the church of an Augustinian priory, Southwark Priory, dedicated in honour of the Virgin Mary (St Mary – over the river, 'overie'). Following the dissolution of the monasteries, it became a parish church, with a dedication to the Holy Saviour (St Saviour). The church was in the diocese of Winchester until 1877, when the parish of St Saviour's, along with other South London parishes, was transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The present building retains the basic form of the Gothic structure built between 1220 and 1420, although the nave is a late 19th-century reconstruction.
The 16th-century London historian John Stow recorded an account of the origins of the Southwark Priory of St Mary that he had heard from Bartholomew Linsted, who had been the last prior when the priory was dissolved. Linsted claimed it had been founded as a nunnery "long before the [Norman] Conquest" by a maiden named Mary, on the profits of a ferry across the Thames she had inherited from her parents. Later it was converted into a college of priests by "Swithen, a noble lady". Finally in 1106 it was re-founded as an Augustinian priory.
The tale of the ferryman's daughter Mary and her benefactions became very popular, but later historians tried to rationalise Linsted's story. Thus the author of an 1862 guidebook to the then St Saviour's Church suggested it was probable that the "noble lady" Swithen had in fact been a man – Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, from 852 or 853 until his death in 863.
In the 20th century this identification was accepted by Thomas P. Stevens, succentor and sacrist, and later honorary canon, of Southwark Cathedral, who wrote a number of guidebooks to the cathedral, and a history that was revised and reprinted many times. He went on to date the foundation of the supposed original nunnery to "about the year 606", although he provided no evidence to support the date. Although recent guidebooks are more circumspect, referring only to "a tradition", an information panel at the east end of the cathedral still claims that there had been "A convent founded in 606 AD" and "A monastery established by St Swithun in the 9th century".
It is unlikely that this minster pre-dated the conversion of Wessex in the mid-7th century, or the foundation of the "burh" c. 886. There is no proof for suggestions that a convent was founded on the site in 606 nor for the claim that a monastery was founded there by St Swithun in the 9th century.
A marvel of architecture, the spiral staircase within City Hall is something to see and experience. A stunning design that compliments the building so completely...
Discovered this new viewpoint on one of my recent jaunts into town the other weekend whilst in the City area.
I liked the interesting light, with a combination of sunlight and dark grey skies in the background.
The main two buildings in the middle here are the Heron Tower (officially called Salesforce Tower I think) and the Can Of Ham aka 70 St. Mary Axe ...
A strange splash of colour and black and white in this image gives it an almost 'negative/infra-red' look...but I kinda like it. The clouds add power to the image. Hope you like it too and as always, please feel free to like and comment. All feedback is always welcome.
Another novel perspective from which to photograph another of London's slightly bizarrely-shaped and named new towers.
Lucky with the slightly unusual light as well ...
Brutalist car park built in 1970 - Marylebone Lane, London.
There are other photos of this building in my photo stream.
Update April 2019: This building is in the process of being demolished.
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Old digital camera, poor quality shot, bad light, great building, interesting effect - A new building in Ropemaker Street, London, July 2014
Tower Bridge is an iconic and world famous Bridge in London. I took this photo on a beautiful day with my Nikon camera. I am no longer able to walk very far but did love the walk from Westminster Bridge along the south side of the river to Tower Bridge as there is so many interesting sights to see. A walk over the bridge and you can visit The Tower of London a castle built by the Normans back in 1078.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. It crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the City Bridge Foundation, a charitable trust founded in 1282.
The bridge was constructed to connect the 39 per cent of London's population that lived east of London Bridge, equivalent to the populations of "Manchester on the one side, and Liverpool on the other", while allowing shipping to access the Pool of London between the Tower of London and London Bridge. The bridge was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, and Alexandra, Princess of Wales, on 30 June 1894.
The bridge is 940 feet (290 m) in length including the abutments[4] and consists of two 213-foot (65 m) bridge towers connected at the upper level by two horizontal walkways, and a central pair of bascules that can open to allow shipping. Originally hydraulically powered, the operating mechanism was converted to an electro-hydraulic system in 1972. The bridge is part of the London Inner Ring Road and thus the boundary of the London congestion charge zone, and remains an important traffic route with 40,000 crossings every day. The bridge deck is freely accessible to both vehicles and pedestrians, whereas the bridge's twin towers, high-level walkways, and Victorian engine rooms form part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition.
Tower Bridge has become a recognisable London landmark. It is sometimes confused with London Bridge, about 0.5 miles (800 m) upstream, which has led to a persistent urban legend about an American purchasing the wrong bridge.
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Apologies for multiple uploads of similar scenes, but I had a few subtlely different compositions and I really liked how the richness of the blue sky deepened with the encroachment of dusk.
EQUIVALENTS II
and "How to use imagination in fine art photography"
(EXPLORED - May 27th 2015)
A new photo in my series Equivalents and a new blog post about how to go beyond what you see and use your imagination to create art. You can see both the photo and the article on my website blog.juliaannagospodarou.com/how-to-use-imagination-in-fi...
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Shot with 16 stops ND Formatt Hitech Filters. Processed with Topaz Labs and DxO Labs +PS & LR
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St. Mary-le-Bow
Situated in Cheapside, London EC2V 6AU, St Mary’s occupied the site as far back as Saxon Times. This is through archaeological work done on site.
Unbelievably there was a medieval church also on the site but this was destroyed by the ‘London Tornado’ in 1091. This was one of the most destructive and one of the earliest tornados recorded. However the crypt survived the devastation.
During the Norman reign (1066-1154), probably towards the latter end the church was again rebuilt and renamed St. Mary de Arcubus.
Fate had not finished with the church. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London (1666). Being second in importance to St. Paul’s Cathedral it was one of the first churches to be rebuilt. This was done between 1671 and 1673, under the control of Sir Christopher Wren. The steeple, which was 223ft high and was completed in 1680 by Thomas Cartwright one of London’s leading stone masons.
A stone from the crypt of St Marys was donated to Trinity Church in New York in 1914.
According to tradition a true cockney must be born within the sound of the Bow Bells and it’s the bells of St Mary-le-Bow and not Bow Church itself.
Unfortunately the church again suffered and was largely destroyed in the blitz of 1941. The bells were completed put out of action. New ones were cast in 1956 and were finally installed in 1961.
Inside the church is a memorial to members of the Norwegian Resistance who died during WWII.
The churchyard is noted for having a statue of Captain John Smith, husband of Pocahontas and was leader of the Virginia Colony based in Jamestown.
The stained glass windows dating back to 1961 and were part of the restoration after war damage and were by John Hayward.
This is the third and final posting.
Architecture – Modern
This is a seventh series of buildings (some as photographed), glass panels, abstract shapes formed from buildings. Most are in London, although they could be any city. I have not named any building, nor have attempted to find Architects or Designers. I have just altered things to my own taste, nothing is sacrosanct, nothing lasts for ever, new ideas quickly become old as will these images be the moment I post them. Please enjoy.