stunsworth Posted February 16, 2007 Share #1  Posted February 16, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Out of the train, just before the escalators out. You may be able to make out a figure underneath the strip light to the right to give a sense of scale.  M8, 35mm ASPH Summicron   [ATTACH]26028[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 Hi stunsworth, Take a look here Westminster tube station. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
robert_parker Posted February 16, 2007 Share #2  Posted February 16, 2007 Steve  That's an alarming perspective - almost industrial in scale Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted February 17, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted February 17, 2007 I think that the architects for this building did a much better job inside than they did outside... Â The whole of the Jubilee Line extension is how modern underground stations should be. Â This captures the structure brilliantly. Thanks Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteRad Posted February 17, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted February 17, 2007 Beautiful and interesting. Which it has been the sensibility set up in the M8? Thanks. Stefano Isidoro Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted February 17, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted February 17, 2007 Steve - Â In the style of the heroic, industrial photos of the 1930s, but with better contrast. Lovely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share #6 Â Posted February 17, 2007 Stefano, it was ISO 640. The grain you may be able to see was added deliberately during the b&w conversion. Â Stuart, thanks, it was the industrial nature of the structures that appealed. Â Andy, this may sound daft, but I think that concrete can look great when it's used with it's own identity rather than being hidden or made to look like something else. It may sound dafter, but I also think that future generations will possibly wonder why so much of the concrete 60's has been demolished. After all it was what defined its time just as much as a half-timbered house defines the Elizabethan age. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzo Posted February 17, 2007 Share #7 Â Posted February 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) The framing and tones in this image are simply fantastic. Nice capture. Â Azzo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted February 18, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted February 18, 2007 Great photo Steve. Westminster station is full of photo possibilities, it's a very good example of brilliant civil/structural design and engineering. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share #9 Â Posted February 18, 2007 Brian, you're right. I was absolutely gobsmacked when I left the platform, I wasn't expecting anything like this at all. Maybe the architecture ould be seen as brutal or industrial, but I really liked what they'd done with what is essentially just a big hole in the ground. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted February 19, 2007 Share #10 Â Posted February 19, 2007 It's worth doing a tour of the Jubilee Line Stations starting at Westminster and going East. Waterloo is not very interesting but thereafter most of them are worth a look. I have a set of not very good photos taken (pre-Leica) not long after the line opened. I'll add a selection to the pre-Leica page on my photo website this week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter41951 Posted February 20, 2007 Share #11 Â Posted February 20, 2007 Metropolis - very interesting perspective to this shot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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