the ambience...

London in mist...



bar at Newcastle...



Jazz... filming the event...



Jazz...

another one...

at the Trafalgar square... seen this place in all the movies... can't miss it.



pigeons... one in flight!



street light...



pigeon...

this bus had beautiful art painted on it...



the St. Pauls Cathedral, at night... by Sir Christopher Wren... is awesome and grand...



At the National Gallery... thats Da Vinci's famous Madonna of the rocks, took a snap before I was told not to :-(

a whole group of them...



cool...



Praveen and me... at Reading



near the Reading bridge...

the shop window displays... the manequins look so real... Should make a trip to shoot just the manequins...



for the style...



and attitude...



and looks...

The grand facade... of the British Museum



near a tavern... the country has real fascinating street lights...



outside the British Museum



the London taxi...

the head of Alexander...



the pharoe sculptures... really massive in scale...



the rosetta stone... has the earliest written heiroglyphics, greek alphabets and assyrian? cant recall...



the impressive entrance to the British Museum... has the discobolos right in front... enough to make one want to see more in there...

the three graces sculpture from the parthenon...



the parthenon pediment scuptures...



thats Michaelangelo's preliminary drawing for a painting! ...thrilled to see the original! The paper is all torn in the edges, almost breaking like biscuit, and in close-up, can see the charcoal or pencil lines and modelling...



another greek masterpiece...

The London bridge...



in snow...



at the British Museum... Spent 4 hours there alone, and covered only 1/4th of all what's in there... must visit again... This is at the Greek sculpture section...



The Egyptian mummies...

pretending to move that...!



she gets bored of being photographed sometimes...



near the bridge... liked the all-glass ceiling...



walking...

Sangee...



Sangee...



Snow!



the bridge... again.

hmm... the right side of the bridge... :-)



The fort across the bridge...



and some foliage... branches actually...



and this...

Near the London Bridge... That's the widest I could cover with my 28-80 lens! Very limiting, especially when the place is so scenic!



cobblestones... makes interesting foreground...



the bridge...



Sigh...! Wish I had a panoramic lens! that's just the left side of the bridge...