Working Christmas blues

Waterloo

Or should that be greys...but the upside is you can get a seat on the train!

Christmas colours

Teddington

Who needs a plastic tree?

Christmas Lights

Waterloo towards Vauxhall

All together now, aahh, pretty.

Lunchtimes thoughts

North Embankment

The Thames is good for just looking at, when you don't want to think about anything, just beware the cold wind

Silhouette dawn

Broom Road

Clear skies, good colours, freezing cold

Abstract Eye

Waterloo

Yes, It's train shake, but I think it creates a good effect

Late train home

Waterloo

Cold platforms and home seems a long time away

Heucheras with frost

Teddington

I love the patterns frost makes

Mist at Sunrise

Wimbledon/Earlsfield

Now the temperature has dropped, looks beautiful but time for the earmuffs.

At speed with light

Wimbledon

The world looks quite different

Stop!

Bayswater

The trains come every five minutes, but it feels a lot longer at the end of the day and it's always the one you don't want.

Sylvester strikes back

Doyce Street

The business or house always had the best window displays, I'd love to know where they got this from.

Good start to the day

Earlsfield

Some sunrises make me feel good.  Some days need all the optimistic outlooks they can get

Last of Autumn

Broom Road

The rain is turning all the leaves to mush, forget the crunchy windy walk to work

Commute in the dark

Approaching Wimbledon

It is a photograph.  Absolutely no 'post-production'

Green and pink Eye

London Eye

The London Eye from the Jubilee Bridge, on a cold night

Buddleia sunrise

New Malden

A dead buddleia looking like a swan

River cruise

Tate from the Millennium Bridge

This was taken in October 2014.  The building was not yet complete

Soon to be gone?

Hopton Street

Sampson House was Lloyds now IBM, a heavy concrete building that the developers have in their sights.  To be replaced by glass skyscrapers and million pound flats. that no Londoner will be able afford.  Hey ho

Double the reflection

Great Suffolk Street

Okay so it's the double glazing that gives double the reflection, but could I live in a house that had crazy shaped windows?

Fairytale Clapham

Clapham

Just goes to prove that with the right lighting, anything can look beautiful

London Eye

York Road

I was disappointed to discover one capsule was a different colour because of sponsorship. I thought it was so they could keep track of the revolution!

Westminster Tube

Westminster tube

Designed by Michael Hopkins in 1999 and shortlisted for the Stirling prize, it's perfect for a black and white German expressionist film.

On the turn

Caleb Street

The prettiest time of year that quickly turns brown

Sunrise

Approaching Clapham Junction

In this light you can't see the cemetery behind the trees

Carriage structure

Bayswater

This is the first time I've been able to capture the three-dimensional side of the tube train, most of the time they look flat.  Yeah, okay, 'sad' is a possible word to use but I don't care.

Reflections after the rain

Hampton Wick

Tipping it down at Putney, sunshine for the walk home

Autumn is here

Broom Road

It's misty mornings and the leaves are brown, thank God it's still sunny

Summer's coming to an end

Hampton Wick

The sun sets on the commute home

After the rain

Southwark Street

Evening sunshine after a wet day

Time out in Twickenham

Orlean Gardens Embankment

Bit of a cheat this one, but I did work in Twickenham, before giving it up for the great commute.

Japanese Anemones

All Hallows Community Garden

The Garden is in Copperfield Street and is cared for by local people.

Blue skies at sunset

Wimbledon

End of the holidays and empty trains as people surge back to work.

Under the bridge

Lunchtime sunshine, enjoy it while it lasts

August sand

Bankside

Except I'm not on holiday, it's an overflow pipe etching it's way through the sand of the Thames foreshore. 

Below stairs

Porchester Gardens

The 'Areas' in the buildings round Bayswater all reflect their owners style.  Once the home of the servants, they're now more expensive flats.  How do you decorate your stairs?

Early morning bird

Hampton Wick

Can one envy a Pigeon, it can fly away and does not have to get on a train.

Kingston banners

Clarence Street

If there is anything good about a Tube strike, then it's the fact that it forces you to travel by bus.  And to go by routes and see things that otherwise you wouldn't.  But it take's twice as long as usual to get home

Waterloo Graffiti

Waterloo East

The windows are grimy and covered with algae, but I have to admire the graffiti artist, not for the style, but for the fact that they managed to get up there.  Because nobody is ever going to clean it off.

London Wall

Bridstow Place

Okay so I like brick walls, well some of them...

7.54am and it looks like rain

Approaching  Vauxhall

I took this in August 2013, the skyline has changed since then

Chinese invasion

I find rusting railway architectural beautiful, but this has the added fascination of the Buddleia
Thriving somehow in the midst of a metal bridge.

Light is deceptive

Vauxhall

It's not that dark, it's just the sky is so bright.  I'm amazed how our eyes adjust constantly and the camera captures something quite different to what I see.

Little Venice

Regents Canal meets the Grand Union

It takes longer to walk to Paddington by the canal but it is so worth it at the end of the day

Storm approaching

Earlsfield

I do love a thunderstorm

Canal route

Grand Union Canal

It's a good lunchtime walk, up to the canal along and back

Steel garden

Godiman Street

Modern steel next to St Paul's Cathedral.  The contrast is what London's all about..

30 Degrees outside

Baker Street

But here, down in the dark, we wait for the breeze that announces the tube is coming

Lines

Royal Oak

Royal Oak is an island surround by railway tracks and overhead cables

How summer should be

Little Venice

This should be me, not the person loaded down with shopping wondering if she'll miss the train.