London Abstract
Posted at February 27, 2007 15:50 (UTC) from London, UK
It's amazing what you can do with a long exposure and some simple living room lights.
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Minutes Of Happiness
Posted at February 15, 2007 15:30 (UTC) from Berlin, DEA friend of mine just forwarded me an e-mail which I thought it would be nice to post it on here:
As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to
ever let you down probably will.
You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder
every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was
broken.
You'll fight with your best friend.
You'll blame a new love for things an old one did.
You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose
someone you love.
So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been
hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness
you'll never get back.
Bridges From The City (2)
Posted at February 9, 2007 20:06 (UTC) from London, UK
I'm quite lucky to look after one of our clients that is based in the office building on top of Cannon Street Station. That means, I have easy access to the roof garden that gives you a very different view and perspective over the river and all surroundings.
When the new London Bridge was built (the one on the picture), the old one had to be removed first, of course. But what doing with an old bridge you want to replace with a new one? So as bustling as the British are they thought of selling it and even found some one to buy it. Some American folks were very pretty keen to buy it because they were thinking of buying one of London's landmarks: Tower Bridge. The deal was closed and Tower Bridge still stands where it is on the picture. Full Story here.
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Reflections In The City
Posted at February 8, 2007 17:02 (UTC) from London, UK
Queen Victoria Street / Cannon Street, City of London, February 2007
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Bridges From The City
Posted at February 4, 2007 20:59 (UTC) from London, UK
Southwark Bridge with St Paul's Cathedral in the background last Thursday. Taken during a nice refreshing lunch break walk to Borough Market.
Southwark Bridge connects Cannon Street on the North side with the South Bank and was opened in 1921.
A Special Workplace
Posted at February 2, 2007 21:46 (UTC) from London, UK
It's now over two years that I have been living in London. And it is becoming almost two years I have been working in one of the most exciting but also most demanding places I know: The City of London. It's a very special place where you can experience nearly everything you will experience in your life. But here you can feel it, you can live it and you can see it. It's not just real it's reality. If you work in The City you cannot hide from it, you are just exposed to all these things without any hesitation and consideration.
The City is a place on its own, it's a place for work and living, of happiness and sadness, greediness and excess. It's a place for fun and pain, disparity, love, peace and hate. A place for fast food and organic food and poisoning. It's a superficial place of polite and rude figures. It's a place where wealth meets poor and people are divided into classes doing their duties and services. It's a dog eats dog place full with beauty and ugliness. Mates meet enemies. The City is also a place of inequality, it's hard and rough and tough. But it is also exciting and full with history and secrets, hidden places where you may hide away from all for a few seconds. It's full with hopes and arrogance, you can sense the desperate feelings of others, see the opportunities and lost chances. It's a place where profits are rewarded and losses are made but not accepted or forgiven. It's full of diversity but also uniformity. It's colourful and grey, dark and sunny, filled with sleaze and disease. It's small and mysterious, crowded but still empty. Hot but still cold. Cheap but expensive. Full with extravagance and carelessness. A place of politeness and correctness but also disrespect and disgrace. But it's also a place for inspiration. After all it's just one square mile.
But then in the middle of all this you realise there is someone feeling and thinking the same way as you. Someone you can talk to and trust. Someone you can see and feel. Someone you experience and who is out there with you and fighting together with you. The City is a great place with all its ups and downs, but it demands a lot from its habitants. It's a place not to be alone in. It's the almighty City of London, small but so powerful over everything, including me and the handful of people who are out there with me, who I like, respect, appreciate, care about and I am there for. That are the people that make it worth being there and give The City a human touch. Thank you. Gracias guapo.
