Looking Up #5 – La Tour Eiffel

Looking Up #3 – Big Ben

                    “Hickory, dickory, dock,
                         The mouse ran up the clock.
                              The clock struck one,
                                   The mouse ran down,
                                       Hickory, dickory, dock.”

Looking Up #2 – Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal, one of the most photographed buildings in the world. It’s beauty and what it stands for make it not only awe inspiring but also spectacularly sad. It was commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan following the untimely death of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and is regularly known as the greatest thing done in the name of love. I have visited it four times now in the last five years and it never fails to move me.

“Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.”

- Sir Edwin Arnold

 

 

Looking Up #1 – BT Tower

For eons I’ve been trying to decide if I would do a monthly feature. More importantly what I would do for a monthly feature. I’ve been tumbling between so many themes (graffiti, people, countries, the list goes on and on) but everything seemed horribly cliche.

This continued until someone perusing my portfolio noted that a lot of my photographs are of me looking up at monuments and buildings, attempting to make something that is photographed by everyone with a phone into something a bit unique, and wham ‘Looking Up Monthly’ was born!

Numero uno is the most recent one I took, the BT Tower in London. For those of you who don’t live in the UK it may seem to be nothing but a glorified telephone mast but when it was built in the 1960s it was the tallest building in London and even now its still holds its own in the city landscape shooting up around it.

To many it is an eye sore, but to me it is quite simply an icon in its own right.