A few from London

[Roger Lambert]

My wife and I recently jetted off to Merry Old to see my cousin finally get married to his long-time sweetheart.

Gorgeous ceremony in a grand setting - The London office of Lighthouses, which is more like a museum. It had the largest tall masted ship models I have ever seen, and the oil portraits and landscapes were worthy of any of the proper museums in the city.

The photos below are from an excursion to the Victoria and Albert museum, and an evening walk along Tower Bridge with my wife.

Here is a shot from the Tube, which we used a LOT. I'm generally not crazy about selective coloring in a photo, but I was inspired to try this, as they deliberately put these repetitive adverts were you can not avoid looking at them.

The remarkable entry lobby of the V&A sports this marvelous glass sculpture ( from a U.S. west coast artisan, yes?)

Finally, a couple shots of the Tower and its Bridge.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Roger the first picture is spectacular and very modern. Have you also taken the same escalator from an angle so one gets the stairs going up but the pictures are more square on?

That would be esepcially interesting. The treatment you have chosen is effective and as you are there I'd work on a series.

The last picture is great except I'd want a night barge with Queen 'Liz the oneth, coming down the Thames, lights glowing and musicians playing lutes.

More!

Asher

 

[Roger Lambert]

Roger the first picture is spectacular and very modern. Have you also taken the same escalator from an angle so one gets the stairs going up but the pictures are more square on?Asher

Hi Asher

No time for other views. I was in tow by SHMBO and had literally been given 5 seconds to shoot this shot!

That would be esepcially interesting. The treatment you have chosen is effective and as you are there I'd work on a series.Asher

Alas we are home now in Vermont. I wish we could have stayed longer, but London is now the most expensive city in the world to stay in, I believe. Especially for Americans with the exchange rate.

The last picture is great except I'd want a night barge with Queen 'Liz the oneth, coming down the Thames, lights glowing and musicians playing lutes.Asher

You know, I was going to book her for the shot, but the lute players were on strike. ;D

More!

Asher

OK, I'll happily post more of my travel pix for the glassy-eyed.

 

[Roger Lambert]

A very English young lady happy to see her Mom:

We were in London during the opening week of the new James Bond film, Casino Royale. The entire city, if not country, was completely ga-ga over the film, with nearly every store window in thew city with some sort of tie-in theme, articles in the papers every single day dissecting the controversies of whether the new star was Bondish enough!

This shot is of the famous Odeon theatre in Leicestershire (SP?) Square. This is THE theater for Bond openings in London, with all of the Bond portrayers' handprints in bronze in the sidewalks in front. ( I got Sir Sean Connery's - the only "real Bond, IMHO)

We just missed the Grand Opening for the film two days prior - with all the stars themselves and paparazzi.

Before the film started, Bond theme music started playing, and then a man dressed in white tuxedo, mysteriously appeared in front of an enormous, neon-light emitting Wurlitzer organ which arose from the stage floor to thunderous applause. He played every Bond theme, the organ's color-scheme morphing across the entire color spectrum, and then sank back into center stage. Fantastic!

Finally, a couple more of Tower Bridge.

 

[William T Lloyd]

That glass chandelier hanging in the VA museum is from Dale Chiluhy, who put Art Glass and architectural glass installations back on the map in the late 20th century. I have a tremendous video, 'Chihuly over Venice' which actually has 5 installations on this DVD from around the world. Interesting stuff.

http://www.chihuly.com/installations/v+a/chand01.html

 

[Kathy Rappaport]

Atlantis

Funny to find that here. Thank you for putting the link here. I was in the Bahamas and visited Atlantis last month. I took photos of his works there. They are quite impressive in person and the photos I took do not do it justice.