London - a Glimpse of the Shard
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On a visit to London a while back during blue hour I stumbled across this amazing view with its very own framing of the Shard.
Пока я стоял и ждал хорошего света, не мог избавиться от мысли, как растут на голых скалах эти сосны, чем они питаются, за что цепляются корнями. А тем временем случился очень красивый закат, яркий, оранжевый свет залил эти древние каменюки и мы бегали как сумасшедшие, пытаясь заснять их с разных точек. Вот что из этого вышло.
While I stood and waited for good light, I could not get rid of the thought of how these pines grow on bare rocks, what they eat, what they cling to with their roots. In the meantime, a very beautiful sunset happened, a bright, orange light flooded these ancient stones and we ran like crazy, trying to photograph them from different points. Here's what came out of it.
...for who is brave enough to look in the mirror,
and see their true selves reflected...
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Sorry about the pun. Only had one quick shot at this and could've been better but it was an ok result for one try
After temperatures went up and some rain, the ice started to break up. Waves pushed the ice further in toward the beach creating a build up of ice shards in piles near the shoreline.
Goderich,Ontario
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Wat (temple) sculpture fragments in Ayutthaya, Thailand. Ayutthaya (founded in 1350) was the major Thai capital after the decline of Sukhothai and until the Burmese sacked it in 1767, after which the Thais moved their capital to Bangkok. Considerable renovations when I visited in 1974. 14.3543, 100.5719
The Shard is a 72-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 feet) high, the Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, and the seventh-tallest building in Europe.
The Shard ou « The London Bridge Tower » est situé sur la rive sud de la Tamise et face à la Cité de Londres.
Architecte : Renzo Piano
An early morning view of the Shard taken from Tower Bridge. I liked the light reflections on the water in this one.
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Completed in 2012, The Shard was the tallest building in the European Union until the UK’s departure in 2020. At 309.6 meters tall it is still the tallest building in UK. The architectural design resembles a shard of glass, hence its name.
On the second day in London I stood on Tower Bridge and tried to align the tip of The Shard and the Sun. Well, I was not so lucky, but this one is rather close.
Back home, when looking through my results I liked the strong dynamic power of the river in combination with the rather static power of The Shard.
Lazy, hazy, sunny winter day on Shard End Lake, B34.
Taken with a Samsung phone.
(E.L.O. - 'All over the world')...
"London, Hamburg, Paris, Rome,
Rio, Hong Kong, Tokyo,
L.A., New York, Amsterdam,
Monte Carlo, Shard End and..)"
...nein, das ist kein Selfie - kann es ja gar nicht, denn die Frau auf dem Foto hat braunes Haar ;-)
Aber eine Art Gleichnis stellt es schon dar - irgendwie sehe ich mich dort selber stehen, den Blick über den breiten Fluss hinüber auf das schöne Gebäude London Bridge No.1 und den dahinter hoch aufragenden Shard gerichtet...
Gedankenverloren - oder doch nachdenkend, erinnernd, genießend...
Wird es ein nächstes Mal geben? Wann wird es sein?
Fragen über Fragen... ;-)
Mit dieser Aufnahme verabschiede ich mich von der interessanten Metropole...
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. Standing 309.7 metres (1,016 ft) high, the Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the fourth-tallest building in Europe and the 111th-tallest building in the world. It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station.
I was on a train going from London Bridge to Blackfriars the other day and it was around 8am with some lovely light available. I suddenly noticed that there was a nice bit of cloud shrouding the Shard about half way up the building. The problem was getting off a shot from a moving train as every time I put the camera to my eye there would be another building obscuring the view. It was maddening! I finally got a couple of shots off, one of which was this one, with the shard partially hidden by the building you see at left. When I got it home I decided to go a little more graphic with the image in post processing. I put a texture on top of the original image and converted to monochrome to come up with this.
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Looking at the top of the Shard, to the tip of its 310m height, and 72 storeys. It really dominates the London skyline.
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wandering around Bath today I saw this interesting shard of light pattern and just had to get a capture.
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