I could probably write tens of posts about the airport, the hotel, bars and restaurants, but then I would get drifted away from the main subject... maybe one day I'll spend a couple of words for a quick review of all of that too.
London is well known for its Tube network, and the double-decked buses are in everybody's description of the City, but I actually found myself walking around quite a lot, and I must say I definitely enjoyed it more than spending time underground! While walking around you really have the time to see all the details that you'd otherwise miss even if just moving slowly with the traffic on a red bus.
London is plenty of subjects and interesting views to take pictures of, but I actually had 2 main problems while there: 1- the weather was changing so quickly and often that it was very tricky to have a good timing with rain/wind/sun. Due to that also light conditions were very unstable; 2- everybody knows London. Even if you haven't ever been there you know that there's the London's Eye, Buckingham Palace, the houses of Parliament with the Big Beng and so on. So my challenge was to get some shots that wouldn't have looked exactly like all the other ones that anybody else might take or with the same composition that we've seen so many times.
From the first steps in the City I immediately had the impression that London is still and always under construction: you might say that it's pretty common to any big city in the world, but somehow here it felt like building sites withe their cranes are simply an integrating part of any building.
Sometimes a location or subject is so obvious that you don't really need anything more than just a hint to realize where you are. I think that this partial view of the London eye rising up to the clear sky says much more than any image of the whole wheel.
It was almost disturbing to see that Moccia's "masterpiece" affected also British/international lovers' behaviors.
No matter how hard I tried, some subjects are simply always the same... at least I got it with an almost full moon.
London's landscape is still changing due to the new buildings that are always under construction in the financial district, but some of them already became symbols of the City even when just peaking-off from behind the others.
But what really makes London interesting for me are its details. Here some from Shoreditch, Spitafileds, Carnaby Street and Covent Garden.
When the sun was leaving space to the moon up in the sky on the last day, it was getting due time to head back to the airport. Just the time to snap some more shots of London roofs and buildings.
Due to the fact that the while I was in London my 1-shot-a-day for a week project was on-going, some more characteristic pictures from the trip can be seen on the project's page. Other pics that didn't make it to the post are on Flickr.
What do you think about? Are they just as any other pics about London or did I manage to give you a different look on the City?
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