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It’s hard to capture a decent sunset in London as there is always a damn building conveniently placed just to spoil your fun.

From my photo blog at HDR Journey

The Regents Park is probably my favourite in London. Not full of antisocial kids a la Hyde park and void of the camera wielding holiday makers who have fortified Green Park. It’s just nice and relaxing.

Saying that, I am probably spoiling that tranquillity by wielding an imaging weapon of my own. Does that make me a hypocrite? I prefer to hide under the blanket of ‘opportunist’.

Recognise this London view?

I’m beginning to realise just how much of my own city I don’t know. I think there is a saying that goes something like the more you learn the more you realise how little you know. OK, I checked the origin and it was indeed said by Socrates who, it’s fair to say, kinda knew his shit.

Anyway I think it hit home on the weekend whilst going for a stroll around London and finding out just how straightforward it is to walk from Southbank via Westminster to Green Park, then, on to Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. Completely different areas each with its own vibe and yet the journey time is so casual.

I blame London Transport. Taking a bus on any extensive journey is sleep inducing, and the tube, well, they could divert all the lines off a cliff and you wouldn’t know till the splash. Maybe it’s me, too much emphasis on getting directly from A to B in the fastest time possible.

I know the tube map like it’s drawn on the back of my hand, it’s something I’m proud of after seeing the ignorant travel in circles trying to work out a fast route. But saying that, perhaps its time to begin the creation of a new map. After all, I still have the back of one hand laying vacant.

From my photo blog at HDR Journey

I really like the stark contrast between nature and man made creations. It's so weird that the majority of our structures are rigid and square, bricks e are laid as the foundations for buildings that are essentially even bigger bricks. Cuboids galore, A shape which is basically never found in a natural biological environment. It takes heaps of money and the greatest of architects to create 'interesting' design on a grand scale so we can all marvel at how amazing it is when these forms and shapes, curves and spikes are the building blocks of our existence.

Imagine if it was the other way round, what if nature copied our 'natural' shapes and forms, trees would be square, birds would be solid and our intestines would form a rigid piping system that can only turn at 90 degree angles.

From my photo blog at HDR Journey

From my photo blog at HDR Journey