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Looking straight up at the front of the building more commonly known as the Walkie Talkie. I'm surprised not to have seen this particular viewpoint on Flickr before.
Anyway, this was taken on the little terrace in front of the building where people queue up to go in. I was slightly concerned about being nobbled by the security guards (as that *has* happened to me there once before), but I moved on fairly rapidly after grabbing this frame and didn't get any hassle ...
This was a snap I took on my second, rather flying visit to the new Tate Switch House building as part of a stag day that I was on.
Much better lighting conditions in the afternoon than my previous time there, which allowed for a more balanced exposure. Previously it was almost impossible not to blow out the sky without doing HDR bracketing.
St Paul's | Millennium Bridge | River Thames | London
Long exposure with 16 stops ND filter.
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A modernist office building with inset windows within a grid pattern in a Central London side street.
Its not the best time of the day for photograph, but who can resist the temptation to shot when you know a moving vehicle can bring in so much joy into your picture.
A part of The Walbrook Building' in Cannon Street, City of London - Architect: Foster + Partners, 2010.
Went down to the river shore below tower bridge, day after the worse flooding along river Thames.
As clear sky and lower tide seems suggest everything back to normal. God knows what's gone happen tomorrow?!
Much patience was needed, as I did a series of long exposures down at the Palace Of Westminster, getting longer and longer. Here was one of around 8 minutes, the one before was 4 minutes and I was surprised at how different the water was rendered between the two shots.
This was done using 16 stops of ND from the Formatt-Hitech Joel Tjintjelaar signature edition set which includes 3, 6 and 10 stop square resin ND filters.
Generally I've had good experiences with these, although they do seem to impart something of a blue/green tint to the images which I always have quite a time trying to resolve in Lightroom. I guess it doesn't help that I'm a bit colourblind, so these sorts of things are always that much more difficult to intuitively get correct.
Here is the same 50mm photo as the last one in my photostream, called 'New London'. Busy image & reflections! If anyone wants to advise on my camera settings, please do!
This stature, erected in March 2018 on the fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, is a recreation of a statue destroyed by ISIS in 2015. It originally stood in the ancient city of Ninerva near the site of modern day Mosul. The piece, by Michael Rakowitz, is designed as a tribute to 'something good in the human spirit'. The sculpture shows a mythical winged beast called a Lamassu and is made up of 10,500 empty Iraqi date syrup cans, symbolising one of the country's former thriving industries shattered by the war.
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The inscription is written in Cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, on the side of the Lamassu reads: āSennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, had the inner and outer wall of Ninevah built anew and raised as high as mountains.ā
For me this statue represents a frighteningly different world from the world my generation and my children's generation grew up in. As a child I went on family outings to London and Trafalgar Square where we had our photo's taken sitting on the lions under Nelson's Column and holding seed in our hands for the pigeons to feed from. I even have a photo of my dad, who would have been almost 100 now, together with his parents feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square.
Although I'd have liked to have had a wide angle lens on me in order to better capture the scale of this majestic building, nevertheless I grabbed a few snaps with my trusty Sony RX100.
Quite a long queue to get in (hardly surprising on a Saturday afternoon!), but once again I was blown away by the quality and diversity of images in the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year exhibition which is now running again till early autumn next year.
If you're at all interested in nature photography it's well worth a visit.
A quick lunchtime snap of a strangely empty Adams Plaza Bridge, Crossrail Canary Wharf.
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This is a revisit to a subject I've shot a few times before, but only once from this side.
I wanted to get a shot in good light, as my previous effort was taken on a very grey day. I think the building looks a lot more attractive in this gentle morning sunlight.
This is the home of the British Secret Intelligence Service, it was designed by Terry Farrell and completed in 1994. The other side of the building gets the lions' share of attention, and I'm always surprised that there are hardly any shots of it from this angle on Flickr.
It was taken in a single frame handheld with my Canon 6D and the Canon EF17mm f/4L TS-E tilt shift lens. As with previous shots of the SIS Building, I always feel a bit nervous standing opposite with my big camera, wondering if anyone is looking back at me and/or filming me!
The new station on the Isle Of Dogs, opening for business in 2018, but partially ready for visiting now.
This is another area I found very challenging to photograph for a multitude of reasons. Not least as the lighting there is slightly odd - due to the surrounding of many tall buildings, the sun doesn't reach certain parts of this location, so you have some fairly deep shadow to contend with ...
Inside The British Museum.
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Originally named the Post Office Tower, now BT Tower, this 1960's structure was, until 1980, the tallest building in London. There was a revolving restaurant at the top which was closed soon after opening.
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A visit to the wonderful Tower of London. Photo taken with my Canon DSLR camera.
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded toward the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 and was initially a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new Norman ruling class. The castle was also used as a prison from 1100 (Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham) until 1952 (the Kray twins),[3] although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under kings Richard I, Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late 13th century remains despite later activity on the site.
The Tower of London has played a prominent role in English history. It was besieged several times, and controlling it has been important to controlling the country. The Tower has served variously as an armoury, a treasury, a menagerie, the home of the Royal Mint, a public record office, and the home of the Crown Jewels of England. From the early 14th century until the reign of Charles II in the 17th century, the monarch would traditionally prepare for several nights at the Tower, and lead a procession from there to Westminster Abbey for their coronation. In the absence of the monarch, the Constable of the Tower was in charge of the castle. This was a powerful and trusted position in the medieval period. In the late 15th century, the Princes in the Tower were housed at the castle when they mysteriously disappeared, presumed murdered. Under the Tudors, the Tower became used less as a royal residence, and despite attempts to refortify and repair the castle, its defences lagged behind developments to deal with artillery.
The zenith of the castle's use as a prison was the 16th and 17th centuries, when many figures who had fallen into disgrace, such as Elizabeth I before she became queen, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Elizabeth Throckmorton, were held within its walls. This use has led to the phrase "sent to the Tower". Despite its enduring reputation as a place of torture and death, popularised by 16th-century religious propagandists and 19th-century writers, only seven people were executed within the Tower before the world wars of the 20th century. Executions were more commonly held on the notorious Tower Hill to the north of the castle, with 112 occurring there over a 400-year period. In the latter half of the 19th century, institutions such as the Royal Mint moved out of the castle to other locations, leaving many buildings empty. Anthony Salvin and John Taylor took the opportunity to restore the Tower to what was felt to be its medieval appearance, clearing out many of the vacant post-medieval structures.
The scene from Waterloo Bridge looking across the span of the Thames from St. Paul's Cathedral over on the left to the Southbank Tower on the opposite side of the river, with The Shard sneakily sandwiched between that and One Blackfriars. In the distance you can just about make out the towers of Canary Wharf.
Nice warm light but the temperature was pretty chilly standing in the cold breeze up on the bridge wearing shorts as I still am these days.
I decided to go with a rare 16:9 crop on this one as it felt like the scene worked with a wider frame than my usual 3:2 ...
When in London, two appealing architectural styles side by side caught my eye - both fronting Exhibition Road, Kensington SW7.
Both markedly different, yet complimenting each other well.
To the left we see the robust and solid Art Deco Princes Gate, built in 1935. The building has two entrances, one on Princes Gate numbered 59 to 61 and the other on Exhibition Road, numbered 62 to 63.
This beautifully streamlined and elegant building was designed by Adie, Button and Partners.
And to the right, we see Hyde Park Chapel, a multi-use facility owned and maintained by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
It was designed by Sir Thomas Bennett in 1961. Built of reinforced concrete with Portland stone facing. A thin golden spire rises from the west face of the tower and beneath this spire is a stained glass window designed by Pierre Fourmaintraux, made in the Whitefriars Studio.
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