So the long awaited day arrived. Family Allen bundled off to our fair capital city and spent the afternoon eating, walking and taking photographs. Here are some of mine...
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Tower Bridge |
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The Tower of London |
At the end of this blog entry, I have repeated these two shots, but taken at night.
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this is where we are going - The Shard |
We had toyed with trying to cancel the trip as the weather forecast had been pretty bad, however on the day it wasn't a complete write off, the daytime was a little too dull and overcast but after a quick downpour, which we missed as we were ascending The Shard, the clouds lifted and the view was every bit as spectacular as I had hoped for.
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London's River Thames |
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we're quite high up! |
As the light started to fade, The City turned on it's lights and began to look really quite special
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St Paul's as the light starts to fade |
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Westminster, Buckingham Palace and The London Eye |
No tripods were allowed so getting a steady hand-held shot using night time exposures and focussing past the rain spattered windows certainly proved to be a bit of a challenge
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The River Thames and Canary Wharf |
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River Thames |
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Tower Bridge and Docklands |
We finally came back down to earth and I couldn't resist the chance for a couple of quick shots of the sites at ground level.
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Tower of London all lit-up |
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Tower Bridge by night |