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The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster (a.k.a. the Houses of Parliament) in London. Not Big Ben, which is the bell inside.
The medieval astronomical clock adorns the southern wall of the Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square. It announces every hour with 12 apostles passing by the window above the astronomical dial and with symbolic sculptures moving aside. That makes it a popular tourist attraction.
Rather a nice clock (though not quite sure how old it is - possibly it isn't very old at all) - in Aldeburgh
Inside the clock at the top of the Bath Abbey tower.
Bath Abbey dates back to the end of the 11th century – when Bishop John transferred his seat from Wells, demolished the city’s Saxon Abbey and replaced it with a Norman Cathedral that doubled as the church of the monastery – but there were religious buildings on the same site for many hundreds of years before.
Much of the work was carried out by Bishop Oliver King in the late 15th century. The bishop was said to have had a vision of angles ascending and descending a ladder during his visit to Bath in 1499 and the west front depicts that vision.
The monastery was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539, but the church itself was saved and in 1574 Queen Elizabeth I promoted its restoration, which was completed by 1611.
Wear and tear meant it was restored once more by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s and again in the late 20th century, more damage having been inflicted by bombing during the Second World War.
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andrewstuart.wordpress.com explains why street photography is more exciting then tourism photography.
One of the first images taken with the new camera, after the old one drowned. Not sure what to think of it yet. It works so far, but I haven't yet figured out its "performance envelope".
Source: 111020_123939.RAF
Burning the Clocks lantern parade, seafront burning and fireworks in Brighton on the winter solstice of 21st of December 2017.
Part of a Set / Album: www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/albums/72157691314815482
www.samesky.co.uk/events/burning-the-clocks
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_the_Clocks
I used an old Canon optical image stabilizer lens [EF-S 17-85mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM] on an EOS 450D DSLR. With exposures of up to a 1/4 of a second, most of the images had to be discarded, and the remainder are very "grainy" / "noisy", but the pictures at least form a sort of record of the event...
Where the staff used to signal their arrival. Many of these shots aren't quite focused but I was finding the whole day quite emotional.