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Continuing with the London photos, here is one taken late in the evening by the Tower bridge. I hoped for more of a blue hour show, but as you can see, the sky was completely covered with clouds, so no luck there. But still it worked out quite nicely.

And I have to say, I was only stopped twice by security guards while shooting by the bridge. Once for being on a private property (no sign anywhere, and I was standing on a sidewalk) and once for being near a dock, for “security” reasons (I was there alone and no ship in sight, so I don’t know whose security it was). But still, both security guards were very nice a and very politely asked me either to move or not to use a tripod. Still I have to say one thing. I have never been stooped on the street for using a tripod. Never. Happened to me only in London.

This photo is a manual blend from 5 exposures, mostly to darken the bright lights on the bridge and to brighten the shadow areas under the bridge.
The Tower Bridge

It’s always so great when I can add a new category to my page. It almost always means a new city or country. And recently I added London as a category and here is already the second photo from there. You can see the whole category list on the bottom right of the page. This is probably also the nicest sky I got the few days I was in London. I had to get there at 5:30 for it. But as I stayed at a hotel just two streets away from this spot, it was just a 5 minute walk :)

This is a manual blend from 5 shots, taken by the Westminster bridge in London.
Big Ben

So when I was taking this photo, the sunset was not so spectacular. But at least the water was very calm and it gave nice reflections of the snow covered hills :)

Manual blend from four exposures, mostly to darken the sky and to brighten the shadow areas of the stones. I left the colors so soft, as I remembered them from that evening :) Photo taken by the Derwer water in the Lake district, UK.
A very calm Derwent water

I just got home few hours ago and of course I have been busy copying all the new photos onto my HDD. And I also managed to do one quick edit, of one of the shots. As you can see, I really had no luck for good weather last week, it was overcast most of the time. I still hope there will be some nice photos.

This is a manual blend from three shots. In the shot the Millennium bridge in London and the St. Paul cathedral.
Cold evening by the Millennium bridge

And we are at the end. If everything went as it should, from tomorrow I be back to posting my regular new photos. Hope you liked this little change, and maybe I do it sometime again :). And here is the last photo.
This is the final photo, open the full post to see the original shot and how it looked in photoshop:
The Urban Jungle

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