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Another shot from the Barbican estate, this one looking towards Speed House, with Cromwell Tower over on the left ...
An up-to-date snapshot of London's ever-changing skyline, taken from Waterloo Bridge.
This is an image which looks better viewed as big as possible, but certainly on my 13" Macbook screen it's rendered rather tiny by Flickr's annoying page formatting. Hit the 'L' key to see it maximised in your browser window :)
It's a viewpoint I've photographed from many times before, but never actually framed up this particular composition before. I decided to go slightly wider, including the new Southbank Tower, One Blackfriars ('The Boomerang') and The Shard and the UBM building over on the right, in addition to the usual suspects the other side of the Thames.
The Sony RX100 is good at this kind of image as it has a great auto-bracketing mode which gives three images at -2EV, 0 and +2EV, which can then be combined in Lightroom.
Whilst walking around the environs of St. Paul’s Cathedral with my 135mm f/2 lens I saw this cute little juxtaposition of the Queen Anne statue and a golden clockface on the west face of the cathedral.
This is a replica statue of a previous incarnation which was in the same location from 1712, but suffered from vandalism and the rigours of the weather. It became Grade II listed in 1972. The wording on the base of the statue is as follows:
"The Original STATUE was erected on this spot in the year 1712 to commemorate the completion of SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL - FRANCIS BIRD Sculptor.
This Replica of the statue of QUEEN ANNE was erected at the expense of The CORPORATION of LONDON In the year 1886
The Rt. Hon. SIR REGINALD HANSON M.A.F.S.A. Lord Mayor.
Wm. BRAHAM Esq. Chairman of the City Lands Committee."
This shot was grabbed from the train en route to Vauxhall in the one second available in a break in the foreground scenery.
Sadly the power station has been all but obliterated by the multiple blocks of luxury apartments which have been crammed round every corner in a very successful effort to remove the old landmark from most angles!
See my shot from the same perspective back in 2017 in the comments below for a comparison ...
On one of my new morning walks I caught this view of part of the Palace Of Westminster, and it turns out this tower actually has a name, which I'd never realised before. It houses the Parliamentary Archives.
Anyway, it's a good example of the neo-Gothic style of the Houses of Parliament, and one of the only parts of the building not visibly affected by the renovations which are currently in progress ...
Just love this part of the city for cool views
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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?!
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!
Fenchurch Street's fabulous "Walkie Talkie' building. Recently voted the 'ugliest building in the UK', i find it hard to believe this vote as i think the building offers plenty to London's beautiful skyline...
The views from the 'Sky Garden' (which is free to visit) are special too.
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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.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/26/michael-rako...
The inscription is written in Cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, on the side of the Lamassu reads: “Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, had the inner and outer wall of Ninevah built anew and raised as high as mountains.”
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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