Last night was a fun night of photos, and learning about how to take them. The plan was to snap Canary Wharf in the cold and still darkness, with the steam rising from the top of the fabled One Canada Square, and the lights shimmering like neon-coloured jewels outwards from the tower building.
As it as a dry evening, we walked along the South Bank, starting just past Blackfriars. The Millennium Bridge gave us stopping to take pictures from London Bridge. The brightly-coloured bridge itself was a willing subject, and was joined by HMS Belfast, and Tower Bridge, with Canary Wharf peeping through behind it. Sight-seeing boats hummed to and fro, causing the gentle lapping waves to ripple louder while they passed.
I was shown how to capture long exposure images, and the quite beautiful effects this technique has on water. The river and the reflections on it become still, almost quite literally frozen. We were almost definitely frozen, but my new gloves bought earlier in the day provided much-needed protection from the cold.
Looking across to the north bank of the City, the Tower of London had two-storey high Oscar statues atop the four vaulted roofs, we think, to celebrate Helen Mirren’s success at the Academy Awards. A strange sight indeed, and as we zig-zagged the criss-cross paths toward the eastern end of the Thames, our thoughts turned to satisfying our mild hunger pangs, and how bitingly cold the evening had become.
Canary Wharf shopping centre served as a fulfilling refreshment stop, and while we ate in Jubilee Park, the part of the city from which we had come seemed so far away. Deciding it was too cold to fill our viewfinders any more, we headed for the train, and away from the bright lights of the City, and towards the dark fields of home.
Don’t worry glittering lady of Docklands; we’ll pop by and see you another time soon.
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Oooooh the glittering lady of docklands, bless you for referring to me like that!!!! I’m quite the madam seeing as my house was a house of sin for a few short weeks. Woo-hoo!!!! Sparkle sparkle.