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Drone shot over the Trent at the Victoria Embankment looking towards the power station. A pleasant sunset despite the lack of drama in the sky.
STUDENTS DayX3 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Protest and march against University tuition fee increases, 09th Dec. 2010
Over 20,000 students from around the country converged on Central London today to march for a third time to protest against the coalition government's plans to massively increase University tuition fees, which will ultimately mean that far fewer students from poorer backgrounds will be able to even consider a University education because of the massive debts incurred which will follow them for the rest of their working lives.
I joined the days proceedings in the afternoon as they were assembling in Trafalgar Square. To throw the police off-guard they suddenly took off, en mass, through Admiralty Arch in a bid to get to Parliament Square, which had been forbidden. That evening the House of Commons was voting on the Education Funding Bill, and the students were determined to make sure that Parliament heard their protests.
The day started in a good mood, but by the time they reached Parliament pockets of disorder had started breaking out - Flares were lit and thrown, crush barriers and construction site fencing ripped up to be used as weapons against the massed ranks of riot police and later on the mounted police. I had to leave by around 3pm, and by the time I got home and turned on the BBC news all hell had broken loose outside Parliament. Protesters were pelting the police with lumps of masonry, metal poles and scaffolding. They lit large fires, broke down the doors to The Treasury and the new Ministry of Justice buildings, smashing many windows, daubing graffiti everywhere and generally smashing up the joint. Many people were arrested and many people hurt, some badly.
As the police gradually started releasing the by-now contained protesters in small numbers, several small groups headed up to Oxford Street, where they smashed the windows of the flagship TopShop store (owned by Sir Phillip Green who is being attacked for shovelling billions of pounds of what should be UK taxable income into tax haven accounts owned by his wife as part of a legal tax dodge), and in Regent Street they engulfed the Bentley containing Prince Charles and his horse-faced wife Camilla who were in the process of swanning orf the the Royal Variety Performance! The protesters started kicking the vehicle. They broke the windows and threw a tin of white paint over the car. One was not amused!
Needless to say the Bill was passed in Parliament tonight, and the students have vowed to continue their campaign of demonstration and civil disobedience...
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Pete Riches
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~ Here we are, precisely in the middle of the year! Today is 15th June. The summer solstice approaches on 24th June; time to take stock. Some amazing things have already happened this year, and there are some truly amazing things yet to happen, Insh'Allah.
We are looking forward to good days to come: the most important Islamic month, Ramadhan, which starts towards the end of August, to the two Eid celebrations, and the wedding season in the UK, which blooms during the summer months (during the winters in Pakistan, even though I got married in the scorching Lahori May heat!).
Shaukat, a family friend, is holding his mehndi party this weekend in London, plans his nikah for the following weekend, then his walima on 5th July! Phew!
Summer is truly here!
And yes, I had to post this photo, the London Eye... I am a Londoner, and this is the quintessential London shot. There, I did it.
We haven't had snow in Nottingham this year but we've had plenty of mist and fog.
Captured during a lunch time stroll with my wife it was 'pea soup' time. It's a phrase used for the days where you can't see more than a few feet ahead. I have no idea of the origins of that expression.
This is Victoria Embankment with it's views of the River Trent. Or on this day only partial views! I quite liked the narrow boat and the winter tree silhouette reflections.
I've done very little to this shot, a straight forward monochrome conversion. It's exactly how it appeared.
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Embankment Pier by night, photographed from the Golden Jubilee Bridge.
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A chilly frosty dawn along the Victoria embankment between Trent bridge and Wilford suspension bridge.
The sky seemed to hold back for an age before adding a bit of colour in the end.
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VanHool Alizee T9
Volvo B10M
Year 2000
Date taken: 10/07/09
Location: Victoria Embankment, City of London, UK
Built in 1895 for William Waldorf Astor by the architect John Loughborough Pearson, 2 Temple Place was originally known as the Astor Estate Office.
Above the offices was a residential flat for the use of Astor when he was in London.
After a number of owners the building is now managed by the Bulldog Trust and is now a prestigious venue promoting
culture & philanthropy.
I always have a close connection with this part of Nottingham. .. I was born a stones throw from the left hand embankment. ... hard to find a new angle from here... so I don't try to, instead I just enjoy the moment.
Panorama 6xVertical images stitched in Microsoft ICE.(microsoft Image Composite Editor)
The London Eye,from Victoria Embankment with County Hall on the right and with The Tattershall Castle foreground left. taken on the 22/12/2018 at 19:35:59Hrs using a Nikon D3100 camera with a Sigma 18-300mm F:3.5-6.3DC 072 MACRO OS Lens
The Tattershall Castle is moored on the River Thames at the Embankment, and is used as a floating pub and restaurant
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This is a found slide in a white and dark blue mount which is too modern for the photograph so it must have been remounted at some point. The view is looking west across Westminster Bridge from mid bridge showing the Palace of Westminster on the left and St. Stephen’s Club on the corner of Bridge Street and the Victoria Embankment. Theoretically the photograph could have been taken between 1945 and 1952 but I tend to think that it was taken towards the end of the London Transport tram service, probably early summer 1952. The trams started to cross Westminster Bridge in late 1906 when they were operated by the London County Council, they were a mixture of double decker and single deck trams, the single deck trams used the Kingsway tram tunnel and onto North London, the double deckers ran along the Embankment and returned to South London via Blackfriars Bridge. In the early 1930s the tram tunnel was enlarged to accommodate the double deckers. In colour photographs of London’s trams, they always look run down and uncared for, little effort was expended on the look of trams after the decision to phase them out in favour of the diesel bus. The last tram ran on the 5th July 1952. The elderly lady in the foreground is carrying a serious holdall, obviously too full for her clutch bag.
Irizar Century
Scania
Year 2004
Date taken: 10/06/09
Location: Victoria Embankment, City of London, UK
Great Wall of China theme livery
One of two that flank either side of Cleopatra's Needle!
Located on the Victoria embankment in London.
This is the Eastern Sphynx.
Pentax K-3 mk lll
Sigma 10-20mm f3.5 EX DC HSM
A close stack of a newly emerged Sympetrum striolatum that was close to taking to the air for the first time, you can just make out the out of focus eye of the exuviae in the bottom left.
This was a rather ambitious handheld focus stack of 18 images. For this one I was in manual and was using diffused flash, the aperture was F/7.1, ISO 200 and a 1/160 shutter speed. I have cropped the image as well.
Thanks for the positive feedback on my last video, it meant a lot to me and if you haven't seen it the link is here :-
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The longer days were getting to me at this point; I used the Fish Eye to force some inspiration . . .
Yep, it's another shot of Wilford Bridge 😝. Headed down recently for a sunset shoot, wasn't expecting that much but was pleasantly surprised with this pink sky.
These Benches were placed along the Victoria Embankment during the 1870's to compliment the nearby Cleopatra's Needle
Westminster. London. UK.
HBM.