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Was walking down Basinghall Street with my camera and came across this building, and 60s-built extension to the Guildhall complex.
Designed by Richard Gilbert Scott and completed in 1969 ...
My Flick Friday entry for the theme HDR.
Osterley House is located within Osterley Park, London and is one of the last surviving country estates in London.
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This shot was taken with three bracketed shots and then merged to create this image.
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Another classic early weekend shot, not posted at the time. This was taken with the Fuji X100S during the brief time I had with the camera.
On one of my walks to work recently coming up from Vauxhall to Oxford Circus I took a mini detour via Buckingham House. I noticed that the area around the base of the Victoria Monument was accessible so I jogged over there to see what the options for a square-on composition of Buck House would be.
It was only about 8.30am but already there was an impressive swirling crowd of selfying tourists making one of my preferred style of 'clean' shots impossible. I will link the snap I took with my iPhone in a comment below.
Anyway, for whatever reason, I decided today I would get up at 4am in order to catch one of the first trains from Putney to Vauxhall and try and beat the weekend hordes to get there early enough to have the place to myself for at least a little time.
I got there at 6am in the end, and it did start off pretty much deserted. Sadly though it was very bland and grey lighting-wise. I did grab a handful of shots though, especially seeing as I'd brought all my gear with me including the 17mm tilt-shift lens.
The compositions were okay, I was thrilled to get no people in them, but as I said the light was very flat. Also it had started to rain, so I wandered over the road to take a photo of the gold decorated gates which lead into Green Park. I was only there for a few minutes before there was a little break in the clouds, giving some very subtle sunlight the opportunity to bring Buckingham Palace in slight relief from the grey sky behind.
I jogged back over the road and fired up the tilt-shift lens again and got a few more half-decent shots off before the sun went behind the clouds again. By this time nearly 2 hours had elapsed since I first got there, so I guess it shows it's always worth sticking around a bit longer in the hope of the light getting better. This image wouldn't win any awards, but I do quite like the honest simplicity of it, and the fact that it's a London shot with no cranes to be seen - I didn't even need to Photoshop them out for a change ...
Anyway, if you want a people-free view of this London icon and huge tourist magnet, be prepared to get up very early :)
A wonderful but hot day in London. I love having a walk around Trafalgar Square, In this photo left to right in the National Gallery, St Martins-The-Fields Church and the South African Embassy. I really like the fountains and the whole square is so my better since they got rid of the thousand or more pigeons shitting everywhere! I tool this photo with my Cannon DSLS camera & tried to make the colour look like it was an old picture postcard
Another shot from my visit to Tate Modern a few weeks ago, taken from the viewing balcony level of the Blavatnik Building ...
So, this is a fascinating building, another one that is within a few minutes walk of the BBC so reachable on one of my pre-work walks. It’s the office of the engineering and design company ARUP in Fitzroy Street W1.
In the late spring and summer it’s usually impossible to see this view as the tree in blossom completely obscures the front of the building ...
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.
Internal wall detail from an Erno Goldfinger designed masterpiece at Haggerston School in East London. Wall was designed to diffuse sound.
This is a composition I had in mind after spotting it on a stroll along the south bank of the Thames, and had to take quite a few shots in order to get the timing right ...
So, this is the view from the reverse angle of my previous shot of the iconic Battersea Power Station. this is one of the few places which still affords a relatively unobstructed view of the building - hopefully it will stay that way.
I'd be interested to find out how much apartments inside it cost - I suspect they might be slightly out of my price range though.
[edit: Having looked up details of the apartments it looks like the going rate is around £10m each, with a single penthouse there going for £20m ...]
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 first of three postings.
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This is my last picture before my holidays, wishing all my flickr friends a very Happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year!!!
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I've mainly taken photos of this building from the other side (the Thames side) before. This is my first capture using the Canon 17mm tilt shift lens. Nice to be able to get this in a single frame, despite today's very flat light.
I do occasionally wonder if any of their surveillance cameras are pointing at me whilst I'm standing over the road pointing my camera at the building, and whether it seems like a suspicious thing to do! But nevertheless this has always been a fascinating building design to me.
It was designed by Terry Farrell & Partners and opened in 1994, used since then as the head of the UK's Secret Service.
I haven't seen many other images of the building from this perspective on Flickr, so it's good to be adding something different to the mix - which can be difficult to achieve in London given how many millions of images there are of pretty much every conceivable subject.
Car park wall detail behind the new building at One New Change, off Cheapside, City of London.
For my other, very different, view of the same building press here.
Given my lack of photography lately, I've decided to post a few shots I've been sitting on for a while.
Obviously when I've been out in the past I take hugely greater numbers of pictures than what I actually post; I realised a while back it's better to post a few images regularly rather than dumping squilions of shots (like so many people on Flickr).
Anyway, here's one of the Heron Tower, taken handheld with my Canon tilt shift lens, from a slightly different viewpoint than I've seen elsewhere here.
Apparently the official name is '110 Bishopsgate' ...
The National Gallery and St Martin-in-the-Fields Church Trafalgar Square London. Trafalgar Square is named after the battle of Trafalgar in October 1805 when the British Royal Navy defeated the combined navies of France & Spain during the Napoleonic War. It is also of course the site of Admiral Lord Nelsons memorial Nelsons Column. Photo taken with my Canon DSLR camera on a very hot cloudy day. I have included a link below to the Trafalgar Square Wiki page for those interested in learning more.
Church of St Pancras 4 caryatids copied from the Erechtheum by John Rossi (formerly a modeller at Coade's Manufactury) built up in terracotta pieces around cast-iron columns; behind the caryatids, a sarcophagus. 2 leaf doors with roundels in the high podium.
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Syon Park's beautiful conservatory serves as a wonderful end to the Enchanted Woodland trail that goes up around Christmas. A must see for adults and children alike.
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Sticking in the same locale as the last couple of recent uploads, here's one of the Elizabeth Tower from a slightly more distant viewpoint - from across Parliament Square just next to the QE2 Centre.
I'll be stoked when he scaffolding has finally all gone ...
My final pic from last night's brief jaunt over to the South Bank. Here's the National Theatre again, this time closer to ground level. A fascinating building at any time of day, and a good example of the Brutalist style of architecture that was so prevalent in the UK from the 1950s-70s.
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is an 87-storey skyscraper in London that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. The Shard's construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 5 July 2012. Practical completion was achieved in November 2012. Its privately operated observation deck, the View from the Shard was opened to the public on 1 February 2013.
Standing approximately 309 metres (1,014 ft) high, the Shard is currently the tallest building in the European Union. It is the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244.3 metres (802 ft). It was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano and replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in Southwark in 1975.
Another scene that felt like it justified a slightly wider crop than my usual 3x2. I liked the fact that in the same frame we have the new and even still being-built towers of the contemporary City on the left of the frame, and over on the right the iconic centuries-old Tower Of London.
It really is an architectural jumble of a city.