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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.
This has always been a bit of a holy grail shot for me, as it can be very difficult to capture this view without people in it.
Usually it's down to either a really long exposure to blur away the movement (although there are always people who stand around not moving for minutes on end); or else you have to turn up really early in the day before the tourists and joggers are out in force.
I took this shot early on Bank Holiday Monday, midway through my amble up the South Bank from Waterloo to Tower Bridge.
It was clear for about 20s before the next jogger appeared on the horizon crossing over the Thames ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 …
The finest day-glo Brutalist staircase the Southbank has to offer. Another one tricky to frame up in camera, filling the frame as much as I wanted to here ...
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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.
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One of Four. Lockdown editing of a photo by me from 2017.
These are four versions of the same facade photo.
The building is the US Embassy in Nine Elms, London. Architects: Kieran Timberlake.
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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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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!
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
Details of fire escape on building above the tracks at Liverpool Street station, on a grey London day.
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 ...