Place: Hays Galleria, Southwark, London.
Date: January 28, 2012.
Camera: Panasonic TZ3.
Across the Thames, beyond Customs House hunkered on the north bank, further than the spire of All Hallows Church and the glass and concrete buildings near Fenchurch Street, you can see 30 St Mary Axe, a 40-storey building affectionately known as the "Gherkin".
I took this shot on a little wander around Hays Galleria and the London Bridge area yesterday. I noticed the Gerkin nicely framed between two walls — it was something about the way the interplay of light and water contrasted with the darkness of the alleyway I was standing in that caught my eye. And it helped that there were people in the frame, because their silohuettes gave some semblance of scale as well as a sense of movement.
I fired off two snaps, but it was the second, zoomed in on the figures, that worked best.
