Photoblog and image gallery
Passing the home of the Pigeons today just under the bridge near Camden Market, I noticed they had new living room furniture. I couldn’t resist sneaking a shot of their front room from across the canal. I guess having nosey passersby is the downside of living canalside in Camden Market.
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St Giles High Street and the new Renzo Piano construction “with winter gardens on every floor and over 17,000 sq ft of roof terraces. More than just an office building it’s a workplace (sic). Connecting people to the outdoors” … and so the promotional copy goes. Maybe it’s time the urbanscape started connecting the outdoors to the people. We could just skip the building bit.
Not to be confused with the wonderful Yoko Ono number Walking On Thin Ice, the title of this photo of the week refers to my favourite entry at the 3rd annual London Ice Sculpting Festival at Canary Wharf. I like the “wall of ice” effect of this entry by Hungary. Maybe ice walls could become the new “living walls” replacing those popular architectural features where plants are stuck on a wall to die.
On Sunday morning I arrived at the Dulwich Picture Gallery a short while before it opened. Although it was a beautiful sunny day, the frost lingered on the shaded lawn in the grounds of the gallery. We went there to see the portrait of Sir John Soane, the gallery’s architect, by Sir Thomas Lawrence which is on show as part of the Masterpiece a Month. Sunday was the gallery’s 200th anniversary.
Some winter colour as provided by the vibrant Midwinter Fire or Cornus and willow by the lake in St. James’s Park on a cold January day.
The view from the rear window on a clear winter’s day.
Today I took a walk through a relatively quiet Camden Market. My friend Nicole suggested it. It wasn’t like a normal Sunday. The tie stall wasn’t open, for one. It was a quiet Sunday. But it was a pleasure to wander through the stalls in all their variety.
Season’s Greetings from downtown London. After a heavy snow storm yesterday the Feng Shang Princess floating restaurant on Regent’s Canal radiates a certain warmth. Shopping stopped for the day and so did the trains and planes and automobiles. It felt like Christmas.
Oh Christmas Tree. This is the first tree in my home for many years. The greenery, the lights, the colour together help to brighten up this very dark time of year.
Seasons changing in London. With the early snow this year, some trees are still shedding their autumn leaves creating a vibrant contrast to the freshly falling snow.