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The Shard London – Opening light show

Last night was the official completion of the outside work on The Shard building. To celebrate there was a light and laser show, I popped down to the banks of the Thames to take some photos of the tallest building in SE1, and the whole of Western Europe ...


Building the turret

Now that winter has come round again building has restarted on some new additions at the spot. The odd run can still be had if you can dodge the rain and pneumatic drills. This pile of former carpark waste has started it's transformation into somethin...


Building – After party

After finishing the new quarter a celebration was in order! Some good explosions were made... People dodged fire, people kept warm and some film crew were shooting a Polish rap video too, so maybe it will be on MTV...?...


New quarter at The Spot

Cutting to size in the dust storm From this to what you see below in a couple of hours, pretty good going. In one of my weekends in the autumn not spent in Switzerland another addition was made to The Spot. A tight little quarter pipe with slab p...


Royal flyover

Having never been particularly fussed about the Royals I have become quite a fan since they gave us all a bank holiday and a classic aeroplane flyover. Here you can see a Spitfires, a Hurricane and a Lancaster bomber. Very surreal to see them all going o...