A windy and cold day but with bright periods for the
PhotoWalk from Tower Hill to London Bridge with a small group of attendees.
High contrast scenes made getting the exposure right,
especially the skyscrapers against the bright sky. Frustration with trying to
set up the options on a compact camera, menu driven settings not ‘intuitive’
and we had to resort to using the Auto setting.
There are lots of buildings and details of interest in the
city and this walk has a mix of Victorian and period buildings, together with
the views across the River Thames. The Shard looking good across the water but
the ‘Walkie Talkie’ looms over the area around Eastcheap - I don’t like this building, it’s too big, overpowering
and the design is poor (especially the defect of focusing sunlight so that it
melts cars and shopfronts!).
Some good photos taken en-route. The next London PhotoWalk
is Backfriars to Waterloo Bridge on Sat 19th April. See: www.polypodphoto.co.uk for details.
