More than just a very gorgeous skylight for the shopping centre below – it looks gorgeous from down there too!
On the way back from photowalklondon I stopped back on Oxford Street at a place I had on my list of shots-I-must-take from a visit earlier in the week with no camera but with a wet reflective floor. This is in a tiny allley leading into St Christopher's Place a square just behind Oxford Street which is a not so well kept secret these days!
Commisioned in 1630 this statue was the first of its kind. It now sits in the middle of a traffic island which is the point at which all signs leading to london end. All London Mile Markers are mapped from this spot. In the background is St Martin in the Fields and further behind the spinning globe a-top the London Coliseum
[...] Protection Group car, and the dots at the top of the windscreen signify that they’re armed! I caught a moving one more recently) it’s also not brilliant at hiding behind the fence is it with it’s lights on… On [...]
Being an American, I don’t quite get it, are some of the police there not armed?
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RT @phillprice: First shot from my new 5DMII; quite chuffed I managed to catch it too ; the speed it was going… http://bit.ly/F4H3z
Brilliant captue Phill, good to see your new camera finally arrived.
"ere, leg it, it’s the rozzers!"
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Seen in my contacts’ photos. (?)
Hi Brett. When the Met was formed it was agreed they’d not be armed to distance themselves from the Army. Instead the carry ASPs and CS Spray. There’s more about this on Wikipedia
Congrats on the new addition Phil… a 5D Mk2.. so sweet !
Fantastic shot!