about 2 years ago - No comments
This ornate street lamp was photographed on Westminster Bridge, near Big Ben, the houses of Parliament and the London Eye. Apart from the great style and gold details the painted side of the lamps caught my eye and made me wonder why this side of the street lamps are painted. I suppose there could be…
about 3 years ago - No comments
This is the second or third photograph of HMS Belfast that I have featured and there is a great sense of scale. I took the above image earlier this year when I was privileged enough to get access to the viewing area of London’s City Hall (where the mayor’s office is). It had been overcast…
about 3 years ago - No comments
The neon signs at Piccadilly Circus has been one of the classic night views of London that I have really been looking forward to photographing. Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square are huge entertainment areas of London (full of cinemas, casinos and restaurants). Obviously the above photograph was taken with my camera on a tripod. I…
about 3 years ago - No comments
I have always thought that, given a long enough exposure time on the camera, statues at night could make for interesting photos. So, keen to try this theory, I went to the biggest statue / sculpture that I could think of at the time. The Victoria Memorial is placed at the centre of Queen’s Gardens…
about 3 years ago - No comments
This photograph is taken dozens of times every day by tourists. A close up detail of a single “pod” of the London Eye. However, it is rare to see such a sky in the background. Looks wrong? If I didn’t know better I would think this was a fake sky made up in Photoshop and…
about 3 years ago - No comments
I have walked down the bank of the River Thames in London about half a dozen times and never noticed these fountains until last Friday, when I was out exploring possible night locations. When I framed up this photo in my mind I knew it could be special with a long exposure, so I came…
about 3 years ago - No comments
Millennium Bridge is one of the most modern looking bridges over the River Thames and is certainly the most modern footbridge I have ever photographed. I feel that the modern looking tourist boat on the river adds to this image. Here I was experimenting with my (at the time) brand new Sigma 10-20mm super wide…
about 3 years ago - No comments
Looking at how the angle the sunlight was falling on the “black bean”, I wondered if the lens would be able to cope without getting lots of lens flare in my shot. Looking down at my little screen I knew straight away it would be a picture worth publishing in my eyes. The composition of…
about 3 years ago - 1 comment
I had seen the Millennium Dome a number of times on TV and once before on a trip to London. The plan was for a night photo shoot at Canary Wharf and when looking on the map I realised that it wouldn’t be to much trouble to walk down the banks of the River Thames,…
about 3 years ago - No comments
About a week ago I was sitting at my desk writing up posts for this site and happened to look out of the window towards Student Village, noticing the warm purples and oranges in the sky. I quickly stood up to look over at the Beetham Tower and behind it the sky was even more…