One New Change

A lot of the London blogs I follow, including many of the City Daily Photo ones, have been featuring this new shopping center near St. Paul's Cathedral. It's called One New Change. Not sure why. I like this shot of St. Paul's reflected in the shining glass cathedral of consumerism. Oh, how desperately poetic.

Mail Here Look!

A helpful hint for the postman.

Draperies, Furnishings, Boats?

I always notice this building on Camden High Street on my bus ride home but have never managed to grab a picture of it until now. The building doesn't hold this home furnishings company any more. I think there's an Argos there, probably an HSBC Bank, etc. But I like that they kept the rather pretty tile work in place. Too bad I had to snap this picture through the bus window and so it's not the best quality. Maybe when I have more time someday (and a bit of sun?), I'll stop back and shoot it again.

I want to lay like this forever...

Tee hee! Brings back fond memories of my adolescence...

Roman Amphitheatre

The Roman Amphitheatre was discovered unexpectedly when the London Guildhall was building their new gallery. At first, they were a bit annoyed as it ruined their plans for an underground parking lot. But they've since turned it into one of the major attractions of the Art Gallery. The interpretation is interesting, to say the least, neon green gladiators and all.

Roman Wall

Hurrrrraayyy! My laptop is fixed! So I bring you a couple shots of Roman London.


This is a rather impressive bit of the London Wall that encircled most of the City in Roman times. You can find it around about Houndsditch way, I think.

Check us out tomorrow to see bits of the Roman amphitheatre in London.

Lines

A bit of geometry in Kentish Town.

Ritz

Ritzy abodes in Chelsea.

Stonehenge #2

Argh! Getting a little desperate here, with my laptop still at the doctor's. I've got some great pictures of Roman London just waiting to be uploaded, but I can't do anything about it and it's kind of driving me crazy.

So bear with me while we continuing dipping into the archives....back to the neolithic period, in fact.

V&A = Crystal Palace

The V&A Museum was founded partly with the immense earnings from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Though the Crystal Palace where the Exhibition took place burned down in the 1930s, there are bits of the current V&A building that are vaguely reminiscent of that once-great structure.

Signposts

More archival footage. From that Great December Snowstorm of 2010. It was a bit hard to find your way around...

Brick Lane, 2006

Laptop's on the fritz, so we're digging in to the archives. Well into the archives. This was taken on a vacation trip to London in 2006. Brick Lane market was entirely oustide then. On my recent trip back to the Sunday market a few weeks ago it's mostly moved indoors and there are far fewer random folk selling junk. It's much more organised, though a bit less charming as a result.

Soup Kitchen

An old soup kitchen in Spitalfields.

Buxton St

Near Brick Lane. About ten other people were taking this exact same photo at the same time as I was taking this one. However, I'm confident that mine turned out best.

Brick Lane food market

Pancake-y shaped things made from cabbage. At Brick Lane market of a Sunday.

Spitalfields City Farm

There are a number of these city farms all over London, but this one--surprise surprise--is in Spitalfields.

Kneeling Spartan

Another bit of deco art on a building on Tavistock Square.

Sea Serpents

Some nice shadows on Tavistock Square.

brighten this place up

A bit of graffiti or public art (depending on your opinion or politics) in Spitalfields.

Tower at night

The great Tower of London under a purple night sky.

old signage

An old painted sign in Bloomsbury.

Trenches

This is a recreated World War I trench at the Imperial War Museum London. Quite freaky, actually, though the WWII Blitz experience is a bit kitsch.

Evening on the Hill

Evening sun and shadows on Parliament Hill.

shaky or whimsy?

Though I couldn't stand still long enough for this to turn out the way I really wanted, I like to pretend the shakiness and particularly the multiple pairs of feet and red umbrellas adds a sense of urban whimsy to the shot. Pretend with me?

Communist Plot

And here is the most famous resident of Highgate Cemetery, the Founder of Modern Socalism and the Author of the Communist Manifesto, the man himself. I still can't believe he didn't know the Hammers was the nickname for West Ham United.

Sanding the headstone

Quite a number of the newer graves in Highgate Cemetery are made from wood, which I thought was quite interesting -- in stark contrast to the heavy, imposing, we'll-be-here-forever stone mausolea of the late Victorian period. This one was being sanded down and cleaned up as I walked by.

Highgate

Made my first trip to Highgate Cemetery this past weekend. A lovely sunny evening in a rather beautiful spot of town. Didn't manage to see the West Cemetery which is only open to the public on weekends and only by guided tour. Another time...

Trafalgar Fountain #2

The February Theme Day on City Daily Photo is "Fountains." So, voilà. One of the fountains in Trafalgar Square frames Big Ben in the distance.

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