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T'was a cold wintery evening...
Which makes for great photography but it isn't half a struggle for the fingers!
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Here's a shot of the Albert Hall from a slightly unfamiliar angle - this is the side view from the east of the building.
This close-up wide angle image again made possible thanks to the 17mm tilt shift lens from Canon ...
The ever-changing face of London, a view across the Thames looking at the skyline of the Nine Elms area, featuring the new US Embassy building which opened in January 2018 ...
Another shot from deep in the heart of the City, showing some of the modern architecture in the area such as the Scalpel, The Willis Building, The Lloyd's Building and The Leadenhall Building (aka the Cheesegrater).
In the lower left of this image you can see St Andrew Undershaft and the Gherkin reflected in the Scalpel's glasswork; something I zoomed in on for another photo posted previously.
This is another view that would have been tricky to capture without the wide angle perspective of the 17mm TS-E lens ...
...from Wikipedia:
"The County Hall Building's constructed (1911) of Portland Stone
from Portland Dorset, and its foundation is a plinth
composed of Cornish granite.
The Oak covered walls are nearly 100 years old and
are marked by the English Heritage Foundation.
The bronze doors that decorate the entrance were made by Crittals, with enrichments modelled by George Alexander.
The plaque on the right side of the entrance commemorates the official opening by King George V in 1922.
On the left is displayed a bronze relief of Ralph Knott, designed by Gilbert Bayes and unveiled in 1932.
The sculptures of the 4 pavilions at the far end of County Hall were produced by A. F. Hardman.
Visible at the cornice level are 11 coats of arms representing London Boroughs.
This was completed in 1933 and overseen by E. Stone Collins after Ralph Knott's death.
The County Hall building is 6 stories high & has 7 miles
(11 km) of corridors.
One tiny upside of the train strikes this week is changing up my commute to include a walk that takes me back along the Thames.
This was a regular route to work for me during the various lockdowns of the past couple of years, and it’s great to finally see the Elizabeth Tower set free from the scaffolding. Here’s yesterday morning’s cloudless view of the scene …
This was my other decent shot of this sculptural curiosity from the other evening - slightly earlier than the blue hour one.
I think I might actually prefer this one, as it was from a lower angle and there's a little more room in the composition. So glad I managed to grab those few shots before being shooed away by the security guard!
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Update April 2019: This building is in the process of being demolished.
Another photo of the brutalist car park in Welbeck Street, Central London behind Debenham's in Oxford Street, built in 1970.
Note dated 7 March 2017. This building is sadly due to close on 13 March 2017. It's fate is unknown. Many people, including me, are hoping that it will not be demolished.
It's been a while since I did any long exposures, in no small part due to the fact that the skies over London have been exceptionally grey and formless over the past few weekends. Anyway, this was a stealth attack on the trusty old tourist favourite of the Palace of Westminster.
As before when I photographed a similar view about a year ago with my 550D, I still find it difficult to decide whether I prefer the monochrome or colour version of this composition.
One slight problem was a difficult-to-diagnose colour-cast produced by the ND filters I was shooting through. One of the drawbacks with being slightly colourblind means I find it hard knowing what to do with the various colour sliders in order to correct things like that.
Anyway, the colour shot here is my best attempt to bring the tonality closer to what my eyes were seeing standing there earlier.
Bit of a rehash of an earlier image. Taken during last year's Open House. Just came out of City Hall (queues were not bad at all - a mere 25 minutes) and felt the need to feed. There's a handy M&S near by and I knew that I wanted to take this point which I had previously made a mental note to take.
This area is called 'More London'.
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The city skyline, as seen from the viewing gallery of the Blavatnik Building at Tate Modern. Lovely time of day, just after sunset where there's still a tiny bit of light left, but the lights in the offices have come on and started twinkling.
Just about able to get away with this handheld using my little Sony RX100 compact camera in manual mode ...
Another postmodern design on my hit list is this eccentric property commissioned by Janet Street-Porter, ubiquitous TV executive of the 1980s.
It's located just round the corner from Farringdon Station, at the junction of Britton Street and Albion Place.
There's a fascinating little 10 min feature on the BBC iPlayer in which Ms. Street-Porter herself gives a tour of the inside of the house, which is just as quirky as the outside:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01rqrd0/building-sights-se...
Primrose Hill is a hill of 213 feet (65 m) located on the northern side of Regent's Park in London, and also the name was given to the surrounding district. The hill summit has a clear view of central London, as well as Hampstead and Belsize Park to the north and is adorned by an engraved quotation from William Blake. Nowadays it is one of the most exclusive and expensive residential areas in London and is home to many prominent residents.
For a nice overview of Central London, Primrose Hill should be on your list of things to do. The area sits high enough to view from the London Eye to Canary Wharf in one sweeping view. What I find most interesting is from the London Eye to Canary Wharf London seems no longer/larger than the Las Vegas Strip. I need to investigate the distances of both to see if my eyes are deceiving me.
Directions to Primrose Hill from Chalk Farm Tube Station::
Chalk Farm Tube Stop is probably easiest if during the evening: When you leave the Underground Station, head West up Adelaide Road, first left up the gill and over the bridge. Decent pub on the left if you need a refreshing drink. Then veer right down the middle road of three (Regents Park Road) and follow it around. Queens Pub at the end of the road before the park is great.
Map showing Chalk Farm Underground Station to Primrose Hill
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I always found this building difficult to capture from street level, but the angle from this roof terrace makes it much easier. And with a bonus of St. Paul's Cathedral in the background.
This is one of the 90s postmodern buildings in London, and I can feel the stylistic connections with others like 1 Poultry and the SIS Building at Vauxhall ...
Detail shot of the brutalist car park in Central London behind Oxford Street.
Note dated 7 March 2017. This building is sadly due to close on 13 March 2017. It's fate is unknown. Many people, including me, are hoping that it will not be demolished.
Update April 2019: This building is in the process of being demolished.
Whilst I was having a wander up the Thames on a Sunday morning recently, I thought it was time to go up The Monument To The Great Fire Of London again. And although I was prepared for it and took those 311 stairs pretty slowly, it was still totally knackering to get to the top. One day I'll do it without a heavy rucksack in tow and I'm sure it'll be a different experience!
As I discovered previously when I went up in 2015, that wire safety mesh that they have there is slightly too fine a weave to be able to poke an SLR-sized lens through, so I didn't even try with my Fujinon 16-55mm lens, which has a 72mm front element. But, unlike the previous time, I did happen to have my Sony RX100 with me too, which happily extended its little zoom lens through the fence.
The sun being in the position it was only really made it possible to shoot in this direction, as it was too low and bright looking out towards Tate Modern, The Shard or Waterloo.
Anyway, here's a slightly more balanced and natural perspective on the Walkie Talkie and its brethren than the ones I've taken from ground level ...
Art deco facade of Hay's Wharf near London Bridge. This shot took me by surprise as Hay's Wharf faces north on the Thames, blocked from sun from the west by London Bridge. I was there shooting the saturated sunset colours lighting up Tower Bridge, and suddenly noticed that the glass windows of Hay's Wharf were reflecting the golden tones of the sun-flushed architecture on the opposite bank.
I always find it weird (but in a very good way) that no-one ever seems to notice the sign pointing to this viewing platform area on the north bank of the Thames just near London Bridge, opposite The Shard.
I've been up here a few times now, and never seen another person come up the stairs. Maybe it helps that the very helpful sign with a big finger pointing up the stairs is partially hidden behind a bush!
Anyway, I enjoyed a good half hour here or more this morning, taking a few new shots of this fairly familiar view. Even took the opportunity to have a FaceTime conversation with my parents whilst waiting for one of several rather long (7 minutes-ish) exposures which I'll upload in a bit.
Any London photographers who've not been up here yet, I'd say it's definitely worth a visit one time.
I did spend an inordinate amount of time trying in vain to get my camera levelled and everything as straight and perpendicular as possible ...
Details of fire escape on building above the tracks at Liverpool Street station, on a grey London day.
SAINT PAULS CATHEDRAL
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London.
Address: St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD
Construction started: June 21, 1675
Opened: 1708
Height: 111 m CTBUH
Architect Sir Christopher Wren
This is one of the office buildings located within the More London area. Colloquially often referred to as the Batman Building, its slightly duller official name is 7 More London Riverside and its home to PriceWaterhouseCoopers the professional services firm.
It was cool to capture the entire building thanks to my iPhone’s ultra wide lens, and also to get just a hint of those reflections in the wet pedestrian paving.
I was walking down Bishopsgate and saw this in front of me - the light was really interesting so I had to fire off a couple of frames to capture it.
Minimal processing done on this one in Lightroom - it really did look like this.
I don't know what the dark building to the left of the Heron Tower actually is here, and couldn't find out by looking on Google Maps so any suggestions would be appreciated ...
This was taken from an often-photographed look-up spot near London's City Hall and between some of the More London buildings, though the usual perspective contains three buildings rather than just two as you see here. I wanted to narrow the focus a bit for mine to allow the negative white space to have more impact.
The last set of escalators exiting the station, do wonder if the “stop” sign is a subliminal message to stop, turn around, and head home!
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A singular piece of architecture, the office building at 30 Cannon St is notable for its unusual wedge-shaped profile and construction with glass fibre reinforced concrete.
Also it looks a bit like an ocean liner ...
Nice to observe such a familiar part of London's architectural firmament from a novel viewpoint.
Had to wait a long time in the cold, whipping wind for the clouds to break in the right way to get some sunlight on it the other afternoon though ...
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 second of three postings.
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 second of three postings.