I originally intended this picture to be part of my 'new and old side-by-side' series, with The Shard behind Tower Bridge. But, you know, sometimes the scene is just telling you to make the composition a bit cleaner... So I positioned myself with the Shard hidden behind the nearer tower...
645Z with 28-45mm lens @ 29mm.
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---------- Post added 10-03-18 at 06:46 PM ----------
At the moment, there's major work going on at the Houses of Parliament in London. The tower usually referred to (wrongly) as Big Ben - actually called The Elizabeth Tower (previously The Clock Tower and St. Stephen's Tower) - has scaffolding all over it.
Rather than seeing this as a problem, I wanted to use it to create an eerie, sinister mood... The looming presence of a glow in the sky, the mixture of the familiar and the weirdly jarring. Somehow more interesting than yet another version of the usual shot...
645Z with 28-45mm lens @ 39mm.
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