London Geometry

Some recent photographs which focus on lines and shapes, taken in and around London.

These shots are possibly more ‘urban landscape’ than street photography, in that there is minimal evidence of people and the compositions rely more on shapes than content.  With the exception of the last one, they were taken with my new Nikon V1 camera.  This extremely interesting little item uses a smallish sensor, but has interchangeable lenses. Although of Nikon quality, the lenses are tiny compared to those of a full frame or DX frame camera.  So it’s very easy to carry around with a full set of lenses in your pocket. When needed you can attach the monster Nikon full frame lenses, and that gives it some very unique qualities as I will describe in a future post.  I’m still getting used to it for now, and these shots are my first (usable) ones to result.

So here are the photographs.  As usual, instructions on viewing them are at the end of the post.

London Geometry 2014

Moonrise in Canning Town

Moonrise in Canning Town

Taken just round the corner from the Emirates cable car terminal, I was struck by the nice geometric arrangement here.

Anonymity essential at MI6

Anonymity essential at MI6

Shot of the seating area ouside the MI6 spook buiding in London.

Tate geometry 1

Tate geometry 1

The interesting lines of the staircases and vaults of the newly refurbished tate Britain buiding in London.

Tate geometry 2

Tate geometry 2

The interesting lines of the staircases and vaults of the newly refurbished tate Britain buiding in London.

Tate geometry 3

Tate geometry 3

The interesting lines of the staircases and vaults of the newly refurbished tate Britain buiding in London.

Crane and block

Crane and block

I liked the purity of the angles in this shot taken at the back of the Tate Modern

To View: If you have Flash the photos are best seen in full screen (press FS in the bottom right hand corner), and in slide show ( press SL).   If you don’t have Flash, i.e if you are using an Apple iPad/Pod/Phone, or a Nexus 7/10 tablet, or any Android tablet running 4.1 +, you can now see them as well.  Just click any of the thumbnails and a full screen slide-show should start. Information on each photo can be seen by clicking on the ‘i’ symbol in the upper right corner of the screen show.