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This beautiful tower has just been finished in the centre of a large forest. The tower is 45 meters and there is a 800 meter walk to the top on the spiral walkway.
A scene from the Thames ,with the Tower bridge and a River cruiser just out from underneath it ..
I had such an enjoyable cruise on the river myself ,down to Greenwich and back in al a lovley day in the capital :-)
The construction of Tower Bridge began on 22 April 1886. It took eight years, five major contractors and the relentless labour of 432 construction workers each day to build Tower Bridge under the watchful eye of Sir John Wolfe Barry.
When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed ('bascule' comes from the French word for 'seesaw'). Today, the bascules are still operated by hydraulic power, but since 1976 they have been driven by oil and electricity rather than steam. The original pumping engines, accumulators and boilers are now on display within the Bridge’s Engine Rooms.
www.towerbridge.org.uk/discover/history
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100x: The 2024 Edition
95/100 London landmarks by night
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
Constructed from 1887–89 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015.
The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure in Paris. Its base is square, measuring 125 metres (410 ft) on each side. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930. Due to the addition of a broadcasting aerial at the top of the tower in 1957, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building by 5.2 metres (17 ft). Excluding transmitters, the Eiffel Tower is the second tallest structure in France after the Millau Viaduct.
The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second levels. The top level's upper platform is 276 m (906 ft) above the ground – the highest observation deck accessible to the public in the European Union. Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift (elevator) to the first and second levels. The climb from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the climb from the first level to the second. Although there is a staircase to the top level, it is usually accessible only by lift. [Wikipedia]
Have long been meaning to shoot this, so glad to get it ticked off.
For anyone remotely interested, I've launched my Wild Surrey project on Kickstarter so do please take a look here.
Took this photo of Sydney Tower from the museum near William Street just before the start of the 2018 “City to Surf” half marathon.
Scotia Plaza tower reflected in the glass of the nearby Bay Adelaide East tower. WZMH Architects designed the tower, completed in 1988. The exterior is covered by a Red Napoleon Granite which was quarried in Sweden, cut and polished in Italy, then imported to Canada.
A plethora of bells in the Hallgrimskirkja Bell Tower. It's located at the top of the hill in downtown Reykjavík, Iceland. From here you get a great view of the city. Shot with a Rokinon 12mm lens in manual mode with lens set to off at about f/17.
#Iceland #HallgrimskirkjaBellTower #Reykjavík
Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg, in a former water tower / Sternschanze / Hamburg
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Deepest sympathy with the people of Paris after a night of horror. Friday 13th 2015 will definetly be a day to remember. Seems like we're heading for stormy weather here in Europe. Stay strong, Parisiens, you will get over this. Someday. 💔
Picture of the Eiffel tower taken from top of the Arc de Triomphe during my last stay there four weeks ago.
Update
Sorry I uploaded this and ran... literally. Sat in departures for an hour and only found I had free wifi access just as they called my flight .. doh :-( One quick upload... didn't even have time to put a description...
So... This was taken Tuesday night, and the sky really was that colour... an unbelievably beautiful night in London. 30 sec exposure and managed to catch the movement in the sky. Exif data, map location etc all added in replaced shot.
Ventilation Tower Sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi.
www.johannesreponen.com/journal/2018/1/5/ventilation-towe...
The Prosta Tower is a 70 m tall office building designed by Stefan Kurylowicz and completed in 2011 in the district of Wola in Warsaw. Its openwork facade is its most characteristic feature.
I haven't put a bridge up for a while so here's an old faithful. Can't remember whether it's a 2 or 3 shot pano.
Wooden watchtower, plated with reflecting metal parts wich become more and more dense to the top. Viewed from a more distand point, the tower seems to fade into the sky.
Seen @ Landesgartenschau Schwäbisch Gmünd
Balboa Park, San Diego - Constructed in 1915 for the Panama-California Exposition and now houses the Museum of Us.
This shot was taken with the same old Leica lens that I used for the shot of St Paul's Cathedral that I posted a few days back. It's a 90mm lens but when I adapt it to use on my Olympus Micro 4/3s camera, with it's crop sensor, it effectively becomes a 180mm lens. Using a telephoto lens that long will inevitably introduce a lot of compression into an image and you see that phenomenon very clearly here. The chimney tower on the right, which stands on top of the Tate Modern museum, is approximately 250 meters away. Meanwhile the slightly taller Shard building on the left is approximately 1100 meters away (distances measured in Google maps). The Shard is 306 meters high, the Tate chimney tower is 99 meters high.