The mighty St Paul's Cathedral from the Tate Modern shown how the night sky might look best -without light pollution.
Wren's masterpiece is simply awesome - inside and out.
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Brenda Lee, bradleyjames, Hey Paul, bernini, and 546 other people added this photo to their favorites.
jurvetson (102 months ago | reply)
wow. fantastic composition.
It's da bomb.
Splinter (102 months ago | reply)
Fantastic!
Lil [Kristen Elsby] (102 months ago | reply)
Absolutely perfect! Colours, composition, exposure, ambience...all spot on! Were you shooting with a dSLR?
stone fox (102 months ago | reply)
wow this does look pretty fantastic
bodhi47 (102 months ago | reply)
there's a shot very similar to this involving the US capitol building and the Metro train, and I totally thought this was there. Strange coincidence. Beautiful shot. Nice night colors and framing too.
Son of Groucho (102 months ago | reply)
This is a SUPERB photograph.
karchi [deleted] (102 months ago | reply)
very good photograph
Hilary (curioush) (102 months ago | reply)
your photos just knock my socks off!
Faulty Pixel (102 months ago | reply)
photography at its best.
Michael Jaminet [deleted] (102 months ago | reply)
Excellent composition and lighting, not to mention SHARP!
Nomine UK [deleted] (101 months ago | reply)
Wonderful lighting, wonderful tones and incredibly crisp.
Anna Psalmond (101 months ago | reply)
wow!
makes me want to go there asap!
The Rocketeer (101 months ago | reply)
Incredible... I want to see it in person now!
JMichaelSullivan (99 months ago | reply)
Perfect architectural shot. Congrats!
steeev (99 months ago | reply)
wow! amazing shot! just curious if you used photoshop at all to enhance the image.
Esther17 (99 months ago | reply)
Simply perfection. Wowza!
dooda (98 months ago | reply)
I'm Like: "Holy Crap" on this one.
Freddie jr (96 months ago | reply)
awesome shot
jurvetson (96 months ago | reply)
the night light gives such a wonderful color coherency.
It looks totally different by day, as I just learned from this newly posted photo.
pierofix (95 months ago | reply)
Great shot!
Akashic (94 months ago | reply)
Simliar, but different. You have much cooler colours, is this image as taken?
I love it.
Rohan Talip (92 months ago | reply)
Very impressive shot!
maz hewitt (91 months ago | reply)
Bravo!!!
Please add the "The best Bravo" group pool!
Claudio.Núñez (91 months ago | reply)
EXCELENTE! es que está preciosa... la luz, la composicòn, todo... gran trabajo... :D
Cilest (91 months ago | reply)
brilliant!
we added this fantastic photo to our IMPRESSIVE-weblog:
Hope you don't mind...
Thanks for sharing this amazing picture.
And here's the direct link to your shot:
impressive-flickr.blogspot.com/2005/11/pride- of-london.html
Today is a good day (91 months ago | reply)
perfect
Mute* (90 months ago | reply)
Very cool, I love how 'steely' the image looks, like your sucked all the red tones out of it :)
Clia [deleted] (90 months ago | reply)
Good composition!!!
Aaron Huang (90 months ago | reply)
it's great
naughton321 (89 months ago | reply)
this is an incredible pic - i love it, such a great vantage point and a beautiful midnight blue colour!
if you are interested, it would be great if you could post to a pool i have created called 50 fifty, for images that have been favourited by at least 50 people:
www.flickr.com/groups/50fifty/
splorp (89 months ago | reply)
Gorgeous. Love the cool, uniform tones.
i was sean [deleted] (89 months ago | reply)
love the industrial/classical contrast.
simpologist (89 months ago | reply)
Super cool shot, like 2000-2500K? My night shots have been orange and sucky in comparison.
Brian Stucki (89 months ago | reply)
This photo has been featured on www.areyouapro.com/. The current contest is "My City"
We'd love to get more info on the photo from the photographer. Everyone else, feel free to come by and comment to help this photo win the competition.
btezra [deleted] (89 months ago | reply)
~I/eye think this is stellar~
NickOwenPhotography.co.uk (85 months ago | reply)
wonderful
Stop All The Clocks (84 months ago | reply)
Amazing picture. The neatness is absolutely outstanding.
A fave.
Em82 (83 months ago | reply)
Gorgeous!
G w Clark (82 months ago | reply)
Perfect Shot!
richardr (81 months ago | reply)
Nice shot - would you consider adding it to the English Baroque group - www.flickr.com/groups/englishbaroque/
kristensenlasse (79 months ago | reply)
I've been there
EarthShots.org Photo Contest (79 months ago | reply)
This is a great photo! Congratulations!
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Kayakman (78 months ago | reply)
wonderful night shot.
Your Canon photo is outstanding!
Please add this photo to our group.
elmotheelk (78 months ago | reply)
Stunning! I would love this one is a larger size...
Tom O'Neill (76 months ago | reply)
I think this photo is a
Please add your photo to www.flickr.com/groups/supershot/
After you add it to the group pool, please tag this photo as a SuperShot.
LameTimberjack (74 months ago | reply)
cool shot, very similar to one of mine
-Merce- (74 months ago | reply)
This photo is considered to be an outstanding architecture shot and invited to The Pritzker Architecture Prize on flickr rating group, where you can rate other shots and your shot will be rated too. Please read the group description and rules for more details.
Jonny Tiger. (73 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called CityScape: LONDON, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
juandesant (73 months ago | reply)
Just found it looking for Flickr's _most interesting Cathedrals_! Awesome atmosphere, and juxtaposition of the old and the new…
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Found in a search. (?)
juandesant (73 months ago | reply)
And by the way, I'm an admin for a group called Engineering as art, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.