Thames
Check out my gallery at www.pixael.com/en/pictures if you want to see more pictures.
You can follow me on https://www.facebook.com/giuseppemilophoto https://twitter.com/pixael_com https://instagram.com/pixael/
- The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3 million visitors annually.
The structure is 135 meters (443 ft) tall and the wheel has a diameter of 120 meters (394 ft). When it opened to the public in 2000 it was the world's tallest Ferris wheel.
Supported by an A-frame on one side only, unlike the taller Nanchang and Singapore wheels, the Eye is described by its operators as "the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel".
The London Eye adjoins the western end of Jubilee Garden, on the South Bank of the River Thames between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge beside County Hall, in the London Borough of Lambeth.
2019.05 London-619-BA
It's the first time I've been back to this part of London for quite a few years, so It was good to have a spare hour doing a bit of sightseeing. I've always loved Tower Bridge because it is such a quirky, but great piece of engineering.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jl.dumas 500Px: 500px.com/jldum
Album London: www.flickr.com/photos/jldum/albums/72157705986822055
![City of London [04/17]](https://cdn.phoide.com/Thumbs/f7ad976d-4a63-4995-b243-1fe13f87070a.jpg)
_1100626Lrcopia
Check out my gallery at www.pixael.com/en/pictures if you want to see more pictures.
You can follow me on https://www.facebook.com/giuseppemilophoto https://twitter.com/pixael_com https://instagram.com/pixael/
Thames Barrier, London, UK.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jl.dumas 500Px: 500px.com/jldum
Travels: www.flickr.com/photos/jldum/albums/72157667373386054 London: www.flickr.com/photos/jldum/albums/72157705986822055
London, UK. 1993. From B/W negative.
...otherwise known as the home of MI6.
It has to be one of the most bonkers buildings in London, why would anyone want to build something that looks like a Mayan temple on the south bank of the Thames?
I have to say it does look very solid though!
_1090991Lrcopia
You can not miss this London cliché photo. Everyone knows it and saw a hundred fantastic photos, but when you're there and wait for the biplane buses to come along it is not as easy as it seems.
The Thames Barrier spans 520 metres across the River Thames near Woolwich, and it protects 125 square kilometres of central London from flooding caused by tidal surges. It has 10 steel gates that can be raised into position across the River Thames. When raised, the main gates stand as high as a 5-storey building and as wide as the opening of Tower Bridge. Each main gate weighs 3,300 tonnes. The barrier is closed under storm surge conditions to protect London from flooding from the sea. It may also be closed during periods of high flow over Teddington Weir to reduce the risk of river flooding in some areas of west London including Richmond and Twickenham. The Thames Barrier will then remain closed over high water until the water level downstream of the Thames Barrier has reduced to the same level as upstream. This is a managed process to provide for different circumstances, and takes about 5 hours. The Thames Barrier is then opened, allowing the water upstream to flow out to sea with the outward-bound tide.
Information taken from gov.uk website.
HDR image made by tone-mapping 3 exposures at -2EV, 0EV and +2EV.
Ciel d'orage sur la Tamise et le Shard....
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jl.dumas 500Px: 500px.com/jldum Album London: www.flickr.com/photos/jldum/albums/72157705986822055
Il ponte più fotografato di Londra, difficile trovare qualcosa di non fotografato... :-)
P1000781_Lr
London
Looking for some interesting angles on Tower Bridge I found this! The "Girl with a Dolphin" statue by David Wynne sited next to Tower Bridge on the north bank of the Thames.
Evening view of London towards the City Hall and the Shard.
L'abbraccio alla luna.
A london eye to...london.
Vauxhall Bridge is a Grade II* listed steel and granite deck arch bridge in central London. It crosses the River Thames in a south–east north–west direction between Vauxhall on the south bank and Pimlico on the north bank. Opened in 1906, it replaced an earlier bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge but later renamed Vauxhall Bridge, built between 1809 and 1816 as part of a scheme for redeveloping the south bank of the Thames. The original bridge was built on the site of a former ferry.
The building of both bridges was problematic, with both the first and second bridges requiring several redesigns from multiple architects. The original bridge, the first iron bridge over the Thames, was built by a private company and operated as a toll bridge before being taken into public ownership in 1879. The second bridge, which took eight years to build, was the first in London to carry trams and later one of the first two roads in London to have a bus lane.
In 1963 it was proposed to replace the bridge with a modern development containing seven floors of shops, office space, hotel rooms and leisure facilities supported above the river, but the plans were abandoned because of costs. With the exception of alterations to the road layout and the balustrade, the design and appearance of the current bridge has remained almost unchanged since 1907. The bridge today is an important part of London's road system and carries the A202 road across the Thames.
_1010001_Lr
An evening view over the Thames towards the London City Hall and the Shard.
Down by the River Thames on the Embankment, just along from the Houses of Parliament and looking towards the Eye, which was starting to light up as darkness descended.
The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. Also known as the Millennium Wheel,
Tower Bridge by night sept 2015
_1000864_Lr
London
_1090915Lr
When we visited the United Kingdom last year, we had developed an itinerary based on catching up with friends in Northern Ireland and Ireland. We planned for sightseeing the first four days in London once arriving at Heathrow, mainly to acclimate our body clocks to a five-hour time difference, but also to take advantage of the London Passes. We had a little problem, though… our connector flight from Raleigh/Durham to Kennedy International was late due to thunderstorms in New York. Once it got here, storms in this area grounded it for the remainder of the day. We wound up having to drive from RDU to Kennedy or lose two days before catching the flight over. As it was, our London Passes were rendered useless for this trip… but they were good for a year. So, we returned this year to make use of them.
We decided this year to focus on England and spend four days in London attending sites of our choosing… this image of the London Eye was just icing on the cake after a day of touring Greenwich. We had just come off a London Water Bus on the Thames to the Westminster Millenium Pier near Parliament. It was dusk when we arrived, but after being on foot for over 8-miles that day, we just waited for darkness to fall to get a good long exposure of Jubilee Gardens to smooth out the Thames for some good reflections.
The London Eye opened the 31st of December in 1999. At the time, it was the tallest Ferris wheel at 446 feet. Sir Richard Rogers, the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, wrote of the London Eye in a book about the project:
"The Eye has done for London what the Eiffel Tower did for Paris, which is to give it a symbol and to let people climb above the city and look back down on it. Not just specialists or rich people, but everybody. That's the beauty of it: it is public and accessible, and it is in a great position at the heart of London."
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Thames!
Most notably AG PHOTOGRAPHE, IGNACIO FERRE PEREZ, Lenis Las and Frank Voigtländer.