Greenwich pre-Solstice Sunset

[major_clanger]

Late last September I went for a wander round Greenwich with tamaranth that, at her suggestion, finished off with a walk up the Thames path to the Dome. I got this memorable picture with my iPhone and T got some very striking ones too - the light was incredible. I resolved to come back with my main camera, and the weekend before Christmas (and the last sunset before the Winter Solstice) I retraced our steps.



The Old Naval College; this is a composite of two pictures taken with different exposures to better capture the range of sunset tones.



A feathered friend helps with the composition.



The towers of Canary Wharf bounce the setting sun into this little inlet.







Fading industrial architecture in the fading light.



These were taken fifteen minutes apart - the changing colours of the sunset were amazing (and not just from me playing around with Photoshop - I've enhanced these pictures to bring out detail otherwise lost in shadow, but kept the colour tone.)



As I walked up the peninsula I got a better and better view of Canary Wharf against the sunset.



By the time I reached the vicinity of the Dome, twilight was turning into night.

More photographs from this set here.

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Very nice - the case for a digital SLR seems to have been made again :-)

Interestingly I find the black and white water looking colder than the water in colour...

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Those warm sunset tones are very misleading! It was chuffing freezing out there, to the extent that I was painfully wary of slipping on ice whilst holding rather a lot of £ worth of DSLR and lens.

[scotiva.livejournal.com]

Oooh very pretty! Nice camera work!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Lovely - amazing that you can get that variety of subjects in one walk.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

It's a particularly good walk for that sort of thing. You go from Wren's architecture to riverside pubs to post-industrial wasteland and finally having Canary Wharf to one side and the Dome to the other, all in about two miles. Most of it is along or close to the river, although there are a couple of places where the path is either set back a street or so or diverted around building or demolition projects.

I understand that a lot of the old industrial sites on the peninsula are being cleared, so it's worth taking a look before it all turns into yuppie flats.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Thank-you for sharing them.

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

Nice. When we come over to yours for Picocon you and D really must talk photography, as it's the Current Big Thing in our house.