Urbanity
Winter is coming, in every sense, and Barcelona feels like a different city. Back to some street photography on Monday…
City VIII: City of the Rising Sun
Nice fan geometry from a kiosk near Canary Wharf metro station, London. Chailey has a much better photograph that shows the whole kiosk… The last of the expired-film batch that was badly scratched in processing, so again this picture has some extensive patching in photoshop.
City VII: Underground
The Canary Wharf metro station entrance, London.
City VI: Overground
Traditional London metro entrance sign contrasting against the glass and steel in the background at Canary Wharf.
City V: Skyscraper
There is something very harsh about the Canary Wharf architecture in winter. All of the colour and interest seems to have been driven underground in to the shopping centres, with mostly the industrial scale office blocks above ground – it is an interesting contrast with the more colourful buildings in the new developments around Barcelona (an extreme example being the Torre Agbar).
City IV: Bridge
Under a bridge near Canary Wharf, London. It was a pretty and cold and grim Saturday, and very dark. Fortunately it seems possible to hold the Leica steady enough for some relatively slow exposures, despite the lack of image-stabilisation or other fancy features (get off my lawn!).
City III: Glass and Steel
Slightly abstract architectural photograph from the area around Canary Wharf, London. Taken using expired Fuji C200 film.
City II: Canary Row
A view of Canary Wharf, London. I was gong to make a pun about “Canary Row” (Cannery Row), but it seems that someone did it much better a long long time ago…
City I: The Radishes of Time
The first of a short sequence of images taken in the City of London. The clocks seemed appropriate today – I can not think why. When I see this picture all I can think of is “beware the radishes of time” – probably because it is twenty past Noon. Leica M7, Zeiss C-Sonnar 50mm and expired Fuji C200 colour film, shot with stacked ND and polarising filters, and an ageing photographer.
Transient Eye 