Being lazy, here's a vertical interpretation of the view to the north-west from Tower Bridge.
The crop is always the challenge. More and more in our screen-dominated world, the landscape layout – wider than taller – predominates. The portrait format – taller than wider – is less often seen, being less screen friendly. At least now on tablets and phones, it's easy for the user to rotate the device to maximize the image on the screen, but on your laptop or desktop rotating your screen is not so easily accomplished.
The advantage of the portrait frame for this scene is the way it brings the castle walls into the image.
Between the trees in the lower left corner is Tower Green and the site of the scaffold where Anne Boleyn and others had their heads chopped off. The round tower in the foreground is the Wakefield Tower and the square tower behind it, the Bloody Tower, where the two young princes under the care of Richard III are rumored to have been murdered. The buildings to the left of the Bloody Tower are the Queen's House – not sure which queen though.
This image probably captures 750 year's worth of construction in the city but perhaps more interesting (to me, anyway) is that most of the roads in this part of London still follow the street layout from the Roman settlement on this site established nearly 2000 years ago. The area within the Roman walls – the Tower of London is just outside the walls to the east – is known as the City or the Square Mile because it's area is a smidge over one square mile.
According to the 2011 census, about 7,000 people live in the City and about 317,000 work there.
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