I had the chance yesterday to take some pictures from the 10th floor of the building I was working in for the day, it has an amazing view over the rooftops of london and gives a unique perspective. Shame it was such a grey miserable day! Two Buildings Stand out in this pic so I decided to try 'poping' the colour on these to make them stand out. to the left is the Royal Exchange, the legend is A poor little boy deserted by his parents was lying half-dead in a Norfolk meadow, and would have most certainly perished had it not been for a noisy grasshopper attracting a passer-by to look in the direction of the starving lad. The kind passer-by , adopted this poor wretch found in the field and gave him his Norfolk family name of Gresham. This young lad called Thomas was to one day build the greatest London exchange where merchants could transact business and high above the steeple he raised a great golden grasshopper, so all men might know and wonder at the strange fortune this creature had helped to build. The truth though is less romantic. The Truth Born in London in 1519 Sir Thomas Gresham, descendent of a Norfolk family and the son of the knight Sir Richard Gresham, a leading London Merchant and one time Lord Mayor of London. Thomas rewarded for his loyal services to King Henry VIII in negotiations for loans with merchants from abroad, was himself bestowed a knighthood. Having won and lost favour with Queen Mary, Thomas became the flavour of his day with Queen Elizabeth as financial agent of the crown. He later built of his own expense the Royal Exchange at Bank Junction and Cornhill in exchange for the London merchants buying the land. A rebuilt version of the Royal Exchange stands on the same spot to this day, and supports the golden grasshopper emblem of the Gresham family on top of the dome along with his rooftop statue looking towards his Bishoposgate home. Sir Thomas Gresham died in 1597. As for the grasshopper it was a pun on the family surname Gresham taken from their Norfolk estate of Gresham a corruption of ‘grass ham’ meaning homestead or farm of grain. (Taken from knowledgeoflondon.com) To the right is St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. The present building dates from the 17th century and is generally reckoned to be London's fifth St Paul's Cathedral, although the number is higher if every major medieval reconstruction is counted as a new cathedral. The cathedral sits on the the highest point of the City of London, which originated as a Roman trading post situated on the River Thames. The cathedral is one of London's most visited sights. (From Wikipedia) This is my first attempt at poping colour.. please criticise!!