East Croydon, note the Twin Towers in construction close to the railway station
Thames Barrier and London City airport
Photos from a cabin window of flight BA0353 arriving at London Heathrow
Canary Wharf, the O2 and the London Stadium
The City of London, St. Pauls, the Shard and London Bridge railway station
London Eye, South Bank Centre and Waterloo station. Also LWT/ITV building in Upper Ground
‘Albertopolis’ in South Kensington, the area where science and the arts would come together; the vision of Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. There’s the Royal Albert Hall, Royal College of Music, Imperial College as well as the museums in front of Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park and The Serpentine.
Barons Court: tube station, Queens Club tennis courts and my home.
Kew Gardens: Temperate House
The Blemheim Centre, Houslow Central
Photos from a cabin window of flight BA0353 arriving at London Heathrow
Arriving in to London’s Heathrow airport one is sometimes treated to a fantastic show out of the cabin windows; it’s a two-edge sword though, I see the same planes from my bathroom window and often they wake me up first thing in the morning.
Since Google Earth came along, and more recently with personal drones, it’s been easy to forgot about any other aerial photography but it’s still rewarding, can be beautiful and gives a very different perspective to our world compared with ground-based photography. And a photographic challenge to do better with the situation than the tourists probably do with the camera on their phone.