Helter Skelter

Follow Me on 500px Getty Images Twitter Facebook Google City Hall London , Queen s Walk, London, England Really enjoyed visiting and editing this place. Again I went last year in Open House but came bit disappointed as my lenses were not wide enough to get the images I wanted. Friend and photographer Mark Hepples went to City Hall late on in the day, around 1700, I thought it was going to be fairly quiet as most people would have been in the morning but actually it was quite the opposite. We couldn t even get on the balcony at one point to look at the views due to the amount of people. Also looking at this image you get the sense of how many people were in the building at this time. For those who went in the morning was it quietY Now this image, I put my Samyang 8mm fisheye on. This lens really compliments the building well due to the massive sweeping curves and bends in the spiral staircase, 0.5km of it. I did used my Sigma 10 20 but it just didn t create the effect that I wanted. Big thanks to Mark Hepples for the name of this image, the fisheye makes it resemble a Helter Skelter, massively over emphasising the curves which is what I wanted. Be sure to check out Marks photostream, he has some awesome images on Flickr and he is also uploading his Open House images too. I am really enjoying all of your Open House images and your photographic interpretations of the buildings you visited. Keep them coming Photo Details Sony Alpha DSLR A700 Samyang 8mm F3.5 MC Fisheye RAW f 11 8mm ISO100 0.5s exposure Software Used Lightroom 4.1 Silver Efex Pro 2 Information City Hall is the headquarters of the Greater London Authority GLA which comprises the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. It is located in Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames near Tower Bridge. It was designed by Norman Foster and opened in July 2002, two years after the Greater London Authority was created. The building has an unusual, bulbous shape, purportedly intended to reduce its surface area and thus improve energy efficiency, although energy use measurements have shown this building to be fairly inefficient in terms of energy use. It has been compared variously to Darth Vader s helmet, a misshapen egg, a woodlouse and a motorcycle helmet. Former mayor Ken Livingstone referred to it as a glass testicle while the present mayor, Boris Johnson, has referred to it as The Glass Gonad and more politely as The Onion . Its designers reportedly saw the building as a giant sphere hanging over the Thames, but opted for a more conventionally rooted building instead. It has no front or back in conventional terms but derives its shape from a modified sphere. A 500 metre 1,640 ft helical walkway, reminiscent of that in New York s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ascends the full height of the building. At the top of the ten story building is an exhibition and meeting space called London s Living Room , with an open viewing deck which is occasionally open to the public. The walkway provides views of the interior of the building, and is intended to symbolise transparency a similar device was used by Foster in his design for the rebuilt Reichstag parliament in Germany. In 2006 it was announced that solar photovoltaic cells would be fitted to the building by the London Climate Change Agency. en.wikipedia.org wiki City Hall London cite note 636326099 N05 has added Helter Skelter at 2012 09 22 17 43 48 and tagged as glass lines

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