Peace

Richmond

The stillness of the morning, no commute

The day after

St Pauls

Boxing Day.  Christ is forgotten under the weight of the sales, but St Pauls still looks down ghostly white and surrounded by skeletal trees

Merry Christmas

One New Change

Have a good time - whatever that means to you

Wet morning

Kingston

Dark, wet and surprisingly colourful

Curtain Road

Curtain Road

Not twelve drummers drumming, but twelve cars a beeping, ten tourists taking pictures, nine pedestrians a leaping (across the road to safety), six buses stopping, but definitely no swans, geese,calling birds, French hens, turtle doves or partridges. Although there is a Red Lion just off Hoxton Square

Sunrise under cloud

New Malden

The sun edges up over the horizon, only to disappear into a thick bank of cloud.

Hanging around

Clerkenwell Road

Autumn was warm for such a long time, and in sheltered spots is still hanging on

This train is not mine

Raynes Park

Disruptions at Waterloo on a cold evening, when all you (and thousands of others) want to do is get home, 'getting as close as possible' is the best one can hope for. Cram onto the first train going in the right direction. And then standing on a station that is not yours, the calculation, hope one will materialise, or catch the bus?

Bright Morning

Great Eastern Street

Bright & sunny but everyone has their hands in their pockets.  Getting colder

Soggy commute

Vauxhall

Colourful but wet

Before sunrise

Raynes Park

Waterloo works

Waterloo Station

The upgrade on the old International terminal is still ongoing.

Early morning commute

Broom Road

Mist, damp and cold

London Traffic

Euston Road

Taken from a slow moving bus. There is no other speed on the Euston Road.

Abstract in Black & Grey

Rivington Place

Very linear, very flat. Architects are obsessed with 'Sleek Modern lines' which lets face it are boring most of the time.  Bring back gargoyles, rococco curls and decoration.  And Trees.  Lots and lots of Trees.

Reds of Autumn

Broom Road

A magnificent red made even redder by the early light

Brooding sunset

Earlsfield

One of those sunsets where the sky feels heavy and the last rays are escaping from the edge of the horizon

Enfield Chase

Chase Green Gardens

London stretches much further North than it does South and Enfield is on the outer edge.  This magnificent fungus was growing from a tree stump, where I stopped to eat lunch and was soon surrounded by hopeful ducks and Canada Geese

Boundary Road Gardens

Arnold Circus

It looks like a Great Western Railway seat has been relocated to Shoreditch. The history books describe the redevelopment of the area as 'slum clearence' and a 'Good Thing'.  It didn't do anything to help the locals, who were priced out of the new housing and moved to other poor quarters.  Sound familar?  Today we call it 'Gentrification' and a 'Bad Thing'. The gardens are maintained by the Friends of Arnold Circus.

Waterloo skyline

Platform 2 Waterloo

Atomospherics on a weekday morning

Cables

Whitechapel

Miles and miles of cables along the District Line

October sunrise

Earlsfield

Passing in the dark

Somewhere outside Wimbledon

Early morning skyline

Shard from Millenium Bridge

There are those who think that all the Shard needs is the Eye of Sauron flaming from the top.  But not on a clear soft morning like this

Passing commuters

The lives and loves of thousands of people pass us by every day.  These are the lucky few, with seats and room to read

Flying buttress

Broadgate Tower

Broadgate tower is built over underground railway lines from Liverpool Street Station so instead of deep foundations it sits on a concrete and steel raft  The flying buttresses are structural, not decorative.

Pink and grey

View east from Southwark Bridge

Diffuse light flattens everything in a pink and grey morning on the Thames

St Pauls morning

Festival Gardens

The flat spaces around St Pauls are due to bomb damage.  They were turned into the Festival Gardens in 1951, for the the Festival of Britain celebrations.  They were designed by Sir Albert Richardson

Other side

Liverpool Street Station

Liverpool Street viewed from the Broadgate end.

Sunlight & rain

Kingston bridge

On a bus, in the setting sun, with the threat of rain

Citrus Drops

Broadgate Tower

I presume the orange one is meant to have a jagged edge.  But why? If they are fruit drops wouldn't teeth marks be more appropriate, where it has been eaten?

September morning

Clapham

Pink & blue skies and the clouds are gathering overhead

Red & Black

Waterloo

A rhythm of red and black.  Early, before the hordes spill out and claim them

Bright morning, deep shadows

London Bridge

Waiting for a bus up Bishopsgate.  Although sometimes it feels that it would be quicker to walk, but when I do, of course, the bus overtakes me before I get there.

Late Blooms

Hydrangea

I took this somewhere in Southwark a couple of years ago. Surprised that it was in bloom this late in the season

Indigo sunset

Vauxhall

A navy and cream sunset, still officially summer but the nights are drawing in

Blackfriars cycles

Blackfriars Bridge

The Blackfriars superhighway on a weekday morning, has been described as 'resembling a peloton of the Tour de France', I agree.  Pedestrians cross at the lights, to try anywhere is is risking life & limb!

Reflections on a bus

Waterloo

I prefer the bus in the morning. It takes longer, but is so much more civilised than the Tube.  You can look out the windows as well, instead of trying not to look at your fellow passengers, who are right in your face.

Old Street cycle race

Old Street

At this junction they pack up and race off, to try and beat the lights and get all the way across in one go. If you are a pedestrian, stay well clear

Hooray! It's rained

Vauxhall

It's been too hot for me, the trains and Tube are unbearable, but the Gods have relented, just for a while. It has rained

Turnham not Green

Turnham Green

Looking very pretty in blue, red & white.

Rainbow or Pride

Broadgate

Number Five has had a rainbow added to it's usual plain exterior. Summer fun or Pride?

Under the arches

Union Street

The building work is finally finished and the planting in front of the arches is great.

Bank in the abstract

Threadneedle Street

This is what most people see every day of the Bank, walking past or on the bus.  You need to be on the other side of the junction to see the imitation Greek temple facade.

All the reds

Cornwall Road

Red shutters, curtains, window box and pelargoniums. 

Cannon Street blues

Cannon Street from Southwark Bridge

Trains and boats, but no planes, although someone did put forward building a helipad on the roof.  The towers are Grade Two listed and the glass city rises up behind

Waterloo bikes

Waterloo Station

At half seven in the morning there is a forest of bikes outside Waterloo Station and a queue for the Boris bikes (sorry Santander Cycles) By ten am the racks are deserted

Cannon Street

Walbrook

Morning sunlight turns restaurant glass into mirrors

Both ways

Shoreditch High Street

Curtain Road windows

Curtain Road

Reflections are never smooth, the building curves and twists in impossible ways