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August 08, 2015 at 7:13 PM

Fri Aug 7th & Sat Aug 8th: Greenwich to London

We are now in London for the next thee days and I’ve combined Friday and Saturday’s blog post as we had a couple of late nights and early mornings.

Friday we departed Canterbury and headed for London. Enroute we stopped in Greenwich were we visited the Cutty Sark and the Painted Hall where Lord Nelson laid in state. The Painted Hall is not as much a visit because of Lord Nelson but because of the beautiful paintings. It is often referred to as the Sistine Chapel of England and it is true. It took James Thornhill 19 years to complete the job. It is magnificent. The Painted Hall is located on the grounds of the Royal Naval Academy which is now part of the University in Greenwich.

Later in the afternoon we arrived in London and did a quick city tour for our photographer guests to see the highlights, then visited St.Paul’s Cathedral before heading back to our hotel. 

Saturday morning we headed out for our first day of photography in London. We visited and toured Tower Bridge early this morning. This afternoon we walked through the Green Park near Buckingham Palace, visited the Marble Arch and returned back to our hotel. This evening we went back down to Tower bridge for a night shoot.

We have a nice selection of images for you to enjoy this evening. Tomorrow will be another day of exploring London.

Call boxes more for decoration than anything else

The nose of the Cutty Sark

Another view of the Cutty Sark, it is now an exhibit in Greenwich

Dan ...

Our group of photographers by one of the London call boxes

Cutty Sark Mini Auto

Part of the Royal Naval Academy as we head to the Painted Hall. Which was a mess hall for retired naval officers

Part of the Painted Hall ceiling

This is the back wall, John Thornhill the artist painted himself into the bottom right corner of the painting

Here’s another view of the ceiling in this beautiful hall

This is the back wall, John Thornhill the artist painted himself into the bottom right corner of the painting

Andrew, Jette, Ray and Andrew take a few photos, the hall had big windows and plenty of light

This is the Naval Chapel in the building across from the Painted Hall

Then on to St. Paul’s this is Scary Spice walking the streets of London

Queen Victoria statue at the Cathederal

Plenty of London’s famous double deckers

A garden view of St Paul’s 

A view down 10 Downing Street

A night shot in Canary Wharf, our hotel is the third from the right

Our first look at Tower Bridge Saturday Morning from London Bridge

Reflections as we walked down for the bridge tour

Ruth posing by the bridge

Ray and Jette

Judith

Tammy

Gail standing over the new glass floor allowing you to look down on the bridge

Dan and Joyce taking a few shots

Upper tower corridors

View from the tower’s upper corridor

High up in the bridge as you walk through

Tower Bridge with the draw bridge raised

The engine room of the tower

More of the engine room

Another view of tower engine room

Only the shadow knows the way out of Tower Bridge engine room

The parklands leading up to Buckingham Palace, you can rent deck chairs

Can you spot any of our group, outside the gates of Buckingham, thanks Tammy

Group shot by the Canada Gate

Palace Guards in the parade grounds

Another Palace Guard, this guard was a woman

Security is very tight at the Palace

Palace Gates

Joyce chatting with one of the guards

Approaching the Marble Arch

As you can see they take security very seriously, look at the wires and spikes on the walls of Buckinghom

Another view of the Arch

Heading back to our hotel, Ruth, Jette and Ron

Our evening photo shoot, sunset with London Bridge in the foreground

London Black Taxi’s

The landscape along the shore near the Tower of London

Standing on Tower Bridge looking upstream on the River Thames

The final shot of the evening Tower Bridge at night.

That’s it for this evening, more from London tomorrow. Good night from all the Photo Tour Trekkers here in London.

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