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Another skyline shot taken from the observation level of the Blavatnik Building at Tate Modern.
Looking across the Thames towards St. Paul's and the City, the softening light is very delicate at this time of day. Taken with my little compact Sony RX100 III in manual mode ...
Another shot from Bjarke Ingels fabulous Serpentine Pavilion
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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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Here's an attempt to squeeze the whole of this building into a single frame taken with my 17mm tilt shift lens from relatively close quarters.
I may return in a couple of months time when the trees have shed their leaves as it will give me a little more room to back up and try and little roomier composition. Immediately to the left of the frame here is a huge tree and this was as far back as I could step at the time without it breaking in to the composition ...
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 …
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 ...
The view of the city of London from this spot is quite incredible. You get to see St Paul's Cathedral, the Heron tower, Tower 42, the 'Cheesegrater' and the 'Walkie Talkie'...all rising above Blackfriars Bridge and the River Thames.
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.
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.
This is looking up at a circular balcony between two archways....to the sky....A balcony fit for a Princess........
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 ...
Old digital camera, poor quality shot, bad light, great building, interesting effect - A new building in Ropemaker Street, London, July 2014
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 ...
One Blackfriars, Sea Containers, the Oxo Tower and the South Bank Tower at Sunset.
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While enjoying a coffee at the start of our 2nd day
in Jolly-Ol'-LONDON, I spotted this building
that drew my attention....'casuing me to take a tour
(I'll often refer to it as-a-look-see)
Wikipedia tells us:
The building comprises 4 blocks.
The central block was designed by C. Newman & built between 1912-1919, while the east block
(including Scarfes Bar, named for Gerald Scarfe) was designed by P. Moncton and built between 1929-1930.
The south-east extension was designed by Bates & Sinning and built between 1954-1956, while the west block (including the Holborn Dining Room) was designed by Bates & Sinning and built between 1959 and 1960.[1]
The property was formerly the headquarters of
the Pearl Assurance Company from 1914-1989.
It is a Grade II listed building
And- here's what Forbes wrote about the renovation:
www.forbes.com/sites/angelinavillaclarke/2023/10/04/10-ye...
A VERY narrow space where 2-TownHouses were co-Joined..
There are three adjoining houses
that comprise his Home (now a Museum).
stuffaboutlondon.co.uk/stuff-about-london-blog/glorious-c...
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.