London - Blackfriars Bridge

Recent photos of the 127 year old Blackfriars railway bridge nearing the completion of it's structural repair with a new station roof and platforms.

 

The roof adding the finishing touches

The roof catching the sun



A view of the bridge looking upstream in the early evening 



London - S Bank Views and Sights

 Photos taken in April last year.  No common theme other than all around the South Bank of the Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge

 

From London Bridge 

Pavement lights with figure graffiti

 

HMS Belfast and crane

 

Sculpture S bank - Admire the use of wood

 

Traditional and new Architecture

 

London - A cold April Day

South Bank in front of the Tate Modern

 

Boys running up the steps, in their own world hidden from the pedestrians

 

A crop of the photo above in monochrome



London - St Paul's Looking Out

Photos taken during the Olympic Victory Parade in September 2012

 

The Statues appear to be looking at the noisy helicopter.

A single spectator above the crowds watching from a St Paul's window.



Spring is not too far away

The weather continues to be unseasonably cold. However Spring will soon be on us.  A few photos taken in previous years as a reminder of what is to come.

Bluebell in Dockey Wood, Ashridge

A Cowslip bud on Ivinghoe Beacon

Female Orange Tip in Ashridge

London - Speed

Photos recently in London trying to capture speed

A lucky shot, with the taxi crossing in front of my subject

London Underground - Speed abstract

A photograph taken recently on the moving pavement at Waterloo underground station.

 

I had been trying to create an impression of speed by using the zoom on a slow shutter speed.  Apart from cropping and adding a little contract, no photoshop has been used.  Whether it gives the impression of speed, I don't know, but I was pleased with the abstract feel of the end result. 

London - Lloyds Building

Photos of this iconic building taken last year. 

 

You would be forgiven to think that this photo is monochrome, but the two yellow lights give it away as being Full colour...

 

... I waited some time to get the lifts adjacent to each other....

 

Another colour photo.

Blackfriars Station - Reflections

Blackfriars Station Entrance early Sunday morning.

Interesting Reflections

Ashridge - Mid-January Hoar Frost and Light Snow

Now back after a month without a working PC.  Problems hopefully sorted out.

 

A foggy morning leaving a heavy hoar frost on the trees in Ashridge on top of the previous day's light snowfall.  Photos with my little pocket camera.

 

The fog now a mist with light  starting to break through...

 

....waiting for the sun

 

The dog enjoying a rest...

 

....and now the sun is at last shining on the foreground.

 

The beautiful Hoar Frost.



Difficuties Posting

I am unable to upload photos for the present.  Also my main PC is needing repair.  Hopefully in the next week or so I will be able to start putting up photos again

Best wishes to al lthat follow my blog

Summer Palms

A couple of photos from the summer

 

A Palm leaf in colour...

 

...and black and white

Scottish Robin

A few photos of an accommodating Robin this summer...

 

...Singing in the tree next our chalet...

...enjoying a chip...

 

...and flying off.



 

London - December Sunrise

Photographs of London taken with my pocket digital camera this week.

 

The Shard and Thames bridges

 

Commuters on the Millenium Bridge

 

The sun behind The Shard

 

Blackfriars Station Roof and South Bank Skyline on a misty morning (through a dirty window so sharpness is not there)

 

The Strata Tower appearing out of the mist

Scotland - Abandoned and Derelict Boats

The harbour at Old Dornie, just north of Achiltibue.

 

A small number of boats, possibly old fishing boats were pulled out of the water and were decaying.

 

I know next to nothing about boats, but I suspect that this upturned hull needs a little more than a few replacement strips of timber before it is seaworthy again.

 

Possibly not quite gone?

London - Borough Market and nearby

Photos from March this year.  The area around Borough Market near Southwark Cathedral

An Oyster Bar, opposite the market

Early morning sun catching the street lamps outside the Bunch of Grapes, a Victorian pub, the modern Shard in the background

A colourful display of vegetables

Scotland - Grey Lag Geese & Sunset

These Grey Lag Geese were found down a single track road overlooking Fangamore Bay to the north of Tarbet.  What a  great setting and such change from those more commonly found in our parks and fed by the public.

A dramatic sunset later that evening at Ardmair

Scotland - Lobster Pots Birdlife

Again from June trip to the NW of Scotland

The quay at Tarbet where you catch the boat to the bird island of Handa.

 Lobster pots where stacked in the car park by the quayside.  I was amused by a busy and noisy family of House Sparrows which were perching on and in the pots (safe from predators?).

The abstract shapes and lines of the stacked pots.

A female or juvenile Linnet (I think) taking advantage of a pot as a perch