Tag:London
Today’s photo shows the view west from Tower Bridge from the west walkway, in counterpoint to yesterday’s view to the east.
Today I provide two interpretations of the view to the east from Tower Bridge. The first is a color HDR, the second a black and white interpretation made in the new Topaz B&W Effects 2.1.
Quite why this particular combe picked up the moniker of Hellscombe is lost to me. It doesn’t look particularly hellish.
As my faded memory recalls, pretty much every afternoon at around 3:00 pm, the clouds would build us and a series of thunder storms would roll through. The noise from the rain and thunder rendered our seismic recording an exercise in futility so we’d return to camp, and face the prospect of cooking once again.
The London Eye is a cantilevered wheel having support on only one side unlike other observation wheels in other cities. The wheel has 64 spoke cables that work like the spokes of bicycle wheel, holding the rim tight to the spindle in the middle of the wheel.
The best images I’ve seen of London from the Eye have been taken soon after sunrise on a cold, crisp, cloudless, winter’s morning. Great if you happen to be local, a crap shoot if you’re a tourist.