This is one of the very few pictures I took with the camera held vertically and I still couldn't fit the entire Tower of Big Ben in the frame. I think my aversion to vertical pictures has something to do with the photos not making good desktop wallpaper (in my opinion) and that's largely where my images end up. We had gotten off the Tube at Westminster Station (October 17, 2005) and were walking to Westminster Abbey when I turned around and took this shot. You can see The London Eye in the background. The Tower of Big Ben is actually attached to the Houses of Parliament, a palace that, when we walked by, had uniformed guards carrying impressive weaponry. They eyed me with aggresive suspicion and I, suddenly nervous and a little panicky, made good my escape in as casual a manner as possible which, as an Atlantic Canadian, may have been suspiciously too casual but they didn't stop us and I was free to go back to the hotel and change my underwear. (Olympus C770UZ, 10mm, f/5.6, 1/250, ISO 64)
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