Thames riverside walk at blue hour under a lit footbridge, with old lamp posts and Big Ben across the river

London

Backlit London street with a red double-decker bus, black cabs and the vertical Palace Theatre sign under a heavy skyTwo black roadsters with pop-up headlights driving past a white colonnaded terrace, in black and white
Big Ben lit golden under a stormy sky, behind the Westminster Station public subway signDomed corner tower of a pale stone neo-Baroque building against a sky fading from peach to mauveBlack London cab panned in motion past a stone facade with tall arched windows
Teal glass residential blocks with curved roofs, overlooked by tall towers under a grey skyMan in a felt hat and dark coat holding a phone to his ear with a gloved hand among passers-by, a large white building behind, in black and white
Front of a green double-decker bus bound for Marylebone, reflecting the facades, with a low sun breaking through the cloudsTottenham Court Road Underground sign in front of a huge Visit Wales billboard showing green countryside, a hot-air balloon and a red dragon
Pink and orange sunset over the Thames and its towers, walkers silhouetted at the parapet, a red bus in shadow in the foregroundYoung woman in yellow-tinted sunglasses, hand in her hair, in front of Greenwich Park and the Canary Wharf towersRear of a teal rubbish truck with two balloons, one rainbow and one yellow, caught in it, on a desaturated street with traffic cones
Silhouettes of the Palace of Westminster and an ornate lamp post beneath towering orange clouds, a plane in the blue skyBusy street leading to Trafalgar Square at dusk, with Nelson’s Column, the lit Clueless marquee, a red bus and cars
Clock tower of St Paul’s Cathedral at the end of a street, an “Except for access” sign in the foreground and red busesThames riverside walk at blue hour under a lit footbridge, with old lamp posts and Big Ben across the riverNight gathering of cyclists in a street, a red, white and blue flag raised above the crowd
London cab wrapped in a bright blue advertisement, panned in motion past a blurred brick facadeClose panned shot of a black cab’s side in the rain, the driver behind the window, red and blue shopfronts blurred behind
Rooftops of a red-brick Victorian building and a black street lamp under a cloudy sky crossed by a planeRow of Georgian brick houses with sash windows leading to a neo-Gothic stone facade, a tree in autumn leavesCyclists gathered at night in red flare smoke, with a “Bikes up, knives down” banner and glowing bike lights
Hooded figure leaning on the white railing of a boat deck at night, distant shore lights, with strong motion blurBalcony of a yellow-brick block with laundry drying among plants and trailing ivy, above the building’s name plate
Yellow building with planted terraces and a glass block above a hedge, a globe street lamp and the Shard in the distanceThameslink train passing between metal stairs on a red-brick building and a weathered wall, yellow hoops in the foreground
Facade of a modernist concrete tower with a honeycomb grid of angled windows against a blue skyRow of red-brick Victorian mansion blocks with gables and chimneys under a cloudy sky, a street lamp in the foreground
High view down into a vast concrete industrial hall where two people sit at the foot of a wall below steel beams

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“I wander thro’ each charter’d street, / Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.” William Blake. London streets, buses, cabs and passers-by, from the Thames embankments to brick facades, from day into night.

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