Shard at sunset by RedSteve

Photography • Architecture • posted on Aug 23, 2010

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I am fortunate enough to live close to London Bridge where they are building one of the tallest buildings in Europe, known as 'The Shard'. It's a somewhat less than half it's final height at the moment (it will reach a little over 1000' or 306m when complete). It's currently at 36 of 87 floors. A mere pimple compared to some of the middle eastern structures, but impressive enough for mere mortals like me. I spotted this sky developing behind the Shard and Guy's Hospital (right and left respectively) with cameos from St Paul's (right) and the Telecom Tower (left). This sunset sky lasted about 7 mins. Nikon D5000 DSLR RAW image, with (of course) Photoshop in the jpeg conversion.