The London Underground

I thought the London Underground deserves a separate post, especially now when I spend hours on tube on a daily basis. Although all pictures were taken along my road to the uni and back, this time I got off at some stations, just for the sake of a couple of shots.




Over a hundred stairs at Borough station.

For the picture on the top left (at Bank station), I had to stop at the middle of the flow with a tripod. I have foreseen that it is not going to be an easy task, basically because everybody is in rush, no one wants to stop - not even for a moment-, and yes, I am obstructing them. Therefore I prepared my camera and set up the tripod on the side of the corridor, and jumped in the middle at the right moment. It took about 2 or 3 seconds to finish with the picture, but I've already heard the loudspeaker calling on a "guy with the tripod". I guess that was me, so I had to move on.

Rain

Last week I had a friend from Hungary visiting me for a few days. One day, we went to see the business district, where we were caught by the rain. At first, a tree gave us shelter, but a few minutes later, we had to look for a bigger, better one. Fortunately, we were at The Gherkin (which I wrote about earlier in my first post, London, Baby!), and derived from its special shape, we did not get wet while we were standing next to it.



As the time was about 5.30pm, many businessmen and businesswomen were on the streets, or were about to leave work. The rain made many of them stay inside or "under" the building, at least for a while, as the rain did not want to stop. Some of them decided to go anyway, so as I had nothing better to do, I took out my camera, and started taking pictures of the poor creatures from the "safe zone".
Just when I started to get better in it, and the light conditions became better too, the rain stopped. I know, these pictures are not so special, but at least I can prove that it is raining occasionally in London, eventhough my pictures do not usually tell that.