Commercial Road London

  We mainly used the buses to travel in and out of central London from Beckton as our Cambridgeshire bus passes give us free travel. The route included driving along Commercial Road with its mix of different era architecture and cultures. We spent yesterday walking and exploring its many interesting buildings etc. Commercial Road starts at Whitechapel High Street, heads east, crossing the Limehouse Basin, the Regents Canal and the Limehouse Cut and ends in the East India Dock Road continuing to the left and West India Dock Road to the right. It was constructed in 1802–1806 to link the West India and East India Docks to the City of London. It was fully populated with houses at this time (some still stand) but with the arrival of the railway, factories also sprung up and the area became overcrowded and polluted. WWII bombing destroyed a lot of buildings, replaced by community housing in the City of London plan. 

Tate Modern

Very enjoyable couple of hours photographing in Tate Modern this morning - mostly with a fish-eye lens.

Docklands

A walk round Docklands area today with strong winds so it felt very cold despite the sunshine. I played around with multiexposures that included slow shutterspeeds - probably a good idea as it was difficult to hold the camera still.

 

Thames Walk from Greenwich

We made our way on the DLR to Greenwich, which was very busy and they have now closed off Queens house area so you can no longer walk through the colonnades etc. So we decided to walk back to O2 area along the river - this proved a good choice as the overcast conditions gave soft muted colours and beautiful reflections - plenty of opportunities for four photographers. These are single exposures except image three which is a double exposure (I think!!).

Albert Dock London

 We are spending 4 days in  London Albert Dock area and here a few images from a walk last night  along the north side looking towards Canary Wharf one way and along City airport the other direction.