Last night we had Lord Mayors Fireworks in London. Some friends and I decided to venture up high to see what we could see. We were up there last year for the same event and got some good shots. This year was a little different, joined by several different groups of friendly people with the [...]
Smithfields – Fish Market
Here;s one from the vaults, taken over a year ago on what was probably one fo my first ‘proper’ explores. I was really unsure of what to expect the first time I went here, it was earlier in the week from when this shot was taken. A trip with a work colleague, we were quite [...]
London – Westminster Bridge
Another pano from the same evening as the previous post. This on the whole was easier to process, however masking the cars and vans in PTGui was a real chore, flipping between images to see which was overlapping the other was very hard work and took over an hour to get right. Certainly best [...]
London – Thames View
Here’s a pano from my recent river walk. This image, or set of images has been the most complicated for me to process to date and has taken a fair deal of time to get right, both fading light and people out for an evening stroll have cause issues. I’ve learnt a lot on the [...]
London – Rooftops
Another late night out. X-Factor was <YAWN> so my friend and I decided to go for a bit of an evening excursion. We’ve been on this roof before, so knew what to expect. This time access was a little more challenging, but not really too hard after we figured it out. 33 flights of stairs [...]
Panorama – Southbank from Northbank
This week I went out for a bit of a photo walk along the Thames after work. I’d been finishing later than usual the week before and had noticed how nice the light was just before sundown so I endeavoured to take advantage of this. This is another set of HDR images, the first that [...]
Crossness Pumpingstation and Panorama Heads
On Sunday Viveca and I went to Crossness Pumping Station. It was Open House London day and as we were a bit slow off the mark we hadn’t booked to go anywhere. Its basically a weekend where-lots of usually closed houses and architectural oddities a that are normally closed are opened up to the public. [...]
Sheffield Toolmakers – Cubby Holes
The tool makers was covered – wall to wall on all floors with cupboards and cubby holes where product would have been stored. There must have been some very knowledgeable people here who could actually manage to find things quickly.The floor all over is covered in pigeon poo! The image is processed with photomatix for [...]
London – Uncontrolled
Here is the view looking up the core of the building – a long way up! I wasn’t sure how to process this so tried several different filters, curves and colouring and ended up with the below, I’m not sure quite what it looks like it but I like it.
London – Citypoint vs Ropemaker Place
After spending time ‘up top’ we came back down to try to get some decent shots of the buildings opposite our location. I was interested to see both buildings as (in my real world) I’ve had a client in both buildings. I was surprised to see that several of the floors in the building on [...]
Barbican – The Three Sisters
Despite mentioning in the last post that not all the best shots are from ‘up top’ this one is from exactly there – something like 34 floors up looking west over London. Once we caught our breath we cracked upen the camera bags abnd got on with the task in hand. I had quite a [...]
Roof Topping – The Hall Of The Mountain King
After an impromptu mail conversation my London urbex colleague and I decided to go out on the tiles for a couple of hours. I’d spotted the location ages ago and others have done it recently. I really wanted to be ‘first up’ but never had the chance (or balls) to do it alone. After a quick scout around we [...]
BT Tower – Nice View
Here are another couple of shots from the top of the tower. Unfortunately I’m not feeling particularly creative right now so I’ll let the pictures do the talking!
BT Tower
Time for an intermission on the decay and something a little different. I was lucky enough to be invited for drinks and buffet at the top of the BT tower yesterday. For those of you who don’t know BT tower is one of the highest buildings in London and is a telecoms hub. I shan’t [...]
Zeche X – Locker Room
Another from the locker room, small lockers where the miners may have kept their positions, clothes being in the birdcages room. We walked through here before moving on to the birdcages knowing that we would return for the final shots of the location. Again this was taken with the 60mm macro, processed with Photomatix and [...]
London Rooftops – The Shard
Whenever there is a night excursion there is a law that you must take a picture of The Shard, soon to be the tallest building in Europe (I think). It dominates the London skyline even now and is WAY taller than any other building in the City. I cycle to work, the journey is about [...]
London Rooftops – Southside
Well , Saturday night came and it was time to head to town, camera in hand. 10.30pm kick off was slightly off-putting, but well worth it. I’m quite a fan of rooftops, quiet, great views and almost certainly undisturbed away from the hustle and bustle below. My fellow explorer and I met at the location [...]
Crystal Palace High Level Station II
Another couple of images from the underpass at Crystal Palace. The image is rather similar to the previous post, but taken from the other corner of the location. I’ve tried to bring out the texture of the flagstones a little mor in this one. The image below I have processed a bit more heavily and [...]
Crystal Palace High Level Station
I’ve been wanting to do this location pretty much since I got into urbex, it’s right on my doorstep – within walking distance in fact. Crystal Palace is so named after the iron and glass structure that was originally built in Hyde Park was moved here in 1854 after The Great Exhibition of 1851. A [...]
Motorsport at the Palace in Crystal Palace Park
This weekend we had some car racing in the local park. Crystal palace was once used as a proper car racetrack, however it closed many years ago, but recently there has been a two day event hosted here. I was keen to try my hand at shooting moving cars and wondered how I would fare. [...]
SHOK-1 in Borough
Here’s another couple from yesterday’s trip home. The artwork is awesome close up and I can see the time and skill required to make these images work. Here’s the previous page from the other angle. Click the image for full gallery and larger versions.
London Street Art – SHOK-1
This evening I went out with the express intention of shooting some images down by the Thames. I pretty much knew what and where to go to get the images I was after and managed to catch what I wanted. On the way back I remembered that there was a little secluded square on my [...]
Heygate Estate – Locked Up
The front of the housing block looked pretty bleak, all doors and windows shuttered and welded closed. The estate was deserted except for a few people passing through as a short cut. Yet the London traffic was always present. I’d really like to go and shoot some more here, but felt more unsafe than I [...]
Heygate Estate – Claydon House
I though that I would finish off the Heygate images this evening. As the area is somewhat ‘dodgy’, with lots of under under and overpasses and covering quite a large area I didn’t really hang around and only took about 6 or seven sets of brackets.My apprehension wasn’t helped by a medic on a motorbike [...]
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