Category: London
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Gli inglesi, la neve e le strade
English winter requires the use of winter tires, but the English do not know it.
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TLR perspective
One of the easiest things to do with a Twin Lens Reflex (“biottica”) is looking down (in the viewfinder) and high (with the lens). I did the same, a few years ago, in Canary Wharf.
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Chislehurst last year in December
If you live in New Eltham… well, first, you should not live there and, anyway, if you do, you would be not reading my post, because you’d be wasting your time commuting. Anyway, if you really happen to live there, you should definitely look around and see that, just a couple of miles away, Chislehurst High…
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Londra merda
Most accommodation in London includes homes that would be regarded with suspect in the rest of the United Kingdom, would only appear amongst the saddest ghettos within developing countries, and could not possibly be on the market in the rest of Europe. Certainly, not with their actual price tags. “Le parole sono importanti!” (words are…
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Una capra ed un cetriolo
Sometimes, shooting in RAW pays back, especially if we are playing with our new digital toy, and have a long learning way ahead. This picture is over two years old. When I shot it, I used one of the crappiest Nikon lenses (the 35-135 AF zoom, now sold) and I was not into subtle retouching…
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It does not happen every day…
…to see Canary Wharf from within this “frame”: That is, the Naval College musem in Greenwich. Available on iStock, too.
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The park around the Greenwich Observatory is beautiful…
…and they know how to care for their vegetation. This is their effort: And this is some result:
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Canary Warf underground station
It has been a long wait before I edited and uploaded this picture, but apparently it was worth it, since it has been accepted in the iStock Vetta collection. I took the picture about three years ago with a Mamiya C220 that I do not own anymore. Because of the recognizable people, I never considered…